August 20 Morning Prayer Live Steam

MUSIC NOTES: Prelude                                                                                                                    C. S. Lang Introit (Psalm 44:23-26) Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord: arise, cast us not off forever. Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face: and forgetest our affliction? Our soul is bowed down to the dust: arise for our help and redeem us. (Psalm 44:1) We have heard with our ears, O…

Prelude                                Rhosymedre                      R. Vaughan Williams The tune of the Gradual Hymn (#504) was written by the Welsh Anglican priest John David Edwards, who named the tune after the village of Rhosymedre in the County Borough of Wrexham, Wales, where he was the vicar (1843-1885). Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), English composer of orchestral and choral music,…

 ON THE BIBLE, THE CHURCH, and MARY The Rev’d. Stephan W. Heimann   Anglicanism has always had a sort of “split personality” when it comes to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There have been a number of well-known Anglican writers, especially among the theologians of the seventeenth and…

Propers for The First Sunday after Trinity The Collect and Lessons The Collect: O GOD, the strength of all those who put their trust in thee; Mercifully accept our prayers; and because, through the weakness of our mortal nature, we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that…