From How to Use the Book of Common Prayer:

The Fifth Sunday after Easter, also called Rogation Sunday (p. xxiv), is followed by three days of fasting and prayer. These are called the Rogation Days (p. xxv), and the name is from the Latin word rogare, which means “ask.” These…

A member of Our Saviour, Oatlands reached out to me to say that reading my article about Commandment Boards inspired his church to install new 3'X7'X2' solid cherry boards are modeled upon St Peter's, St. George, Bermuda. Truly honored and humbled!

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How did ancient Greek music sound?

Listen to the first choral performance with reconstructed aulos of reconstructed ancient scores of Athenaeus Paean (127 BC) and Euripides Orestes chorus (408 BC), with the evidence presented and explained by Professor Armand D'Angour…

Five years ago, an anonymous Wikipedian made their sole contribution: the claim that Emperor Henry II was also known as St Henry “the Exuberant”. This can now be found in at least 6 books, including three by academics and one by a monk. google.com/search?q=%22he… #medievalTwitter

Antony and Cleopatra return—this time in Dryden's emotionally charged telling of their final hours!

If you’ve never read Dryden’s All for Love, you’re in for a real treat. If, like me, you already love it, I hope you’ll enjoy our discussion of it…

Downloading the article in the footnote of the article you downloaded in the footnote of the article you downloaded

How an 1858 work by Henry Charles Groves, a clergyman of the CofI, anticipated Nevin's influential 1867 'The Mystical Presence: A Vindication of the Reformed or Calvinistic Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist'.

Or, how Laudians were Calvinists ...

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#OTD 1544. On St. Mark's day & a Rogation Day (with processions for the war), K Parr published her trans of Psalms or Prayers, a text bolstering H8's war. All 3 extant copies are handpainted gift copies. 2 are annotated by H8 👈. PP reprinted on 25 May (image here STC3002).

I share samples of my favorite footnotes as a spring board for a discussion of the motivations and values informing those footnotes. I want them to think of referencing and citation as good things worth doing and to appreciate why rather than a way to avoid getting in trouble

Why is there not even a single recorded production of Dryden’s All for Love on YouTube (or anywhere else so far as I can tell)? It’s not an obscure work!

The final act of Antony & Cleopatra — the queen’s act

Coming soon

With D. N. Keane, I to-day recorded our final Critical Readings episode on Antony and Cleopatra. What a brilliant experience it has been reading the play with someone who appreciates it as he does. Proof (if it were needed) that literature is best taught by those who love it!

CR Episode 219: Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV
criticalreadings.com/2024/04/15/cr-…

On the Second Sunday after Easter:
'I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.'

Thou spread'st a table in my sight;
Thy unction, grace bestoweth:
And O what transport of delight
From thy pure chalice floweth!
('The King of love my Shepherd is' - HW Baker)

Every so often, these lines spring to mind.

From How to Use the Book of Common Prayer:

Next are the five Sundays after Easter, a period sometimes called “Eastertide.” During this time, the epistles are taken from the “general epistles”—which is the name for the epistles of Peter, James, John, and Jude. These selections…

I’m pleased to say that English Literature at the University of Glasgow are advertising two new permanent posts. Applications for the James Murray Beattie Lectureships in Victorian Literature, and in Fantasy Literature, close on 6th May 24. More info here: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/

This entry makes me wonder if the requirement to give advance notice of one’s intent to receive communion (per the BCP rubrics) was still in force in the late 18th C, at least in the country.