The Royal Visit
You know, I've heard next to nothing -- even from the usually eager-beaver Anglo-Catholic crowd -- about the US visit of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.
The SF Chron did have a sweet little blurb about how, after attending services at a rustic Episcopal church on Sunday morning, the royal couple spent the afternoon picknicking and painting along a cliffside in Northern California. They really do seem wonderfully happy, and these Diana people who've been following them around holding up pictures of dog faces to protest Camilla are just very unhappy, unsettled people.
One thing that's always intrigued me about Charles is this. For all the accusations of adultery, etc., he's extremely high church in terms of the worship of the Church of England. When the CofE tried to get through a modern version of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, the heir to the throne went to great lengths to try and stop it, and he's patron of the Prayer Book Society.
If the usual trend keeps up, pretty soon he'll be a consultant to ICEL.
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The SF Chron did have a sweet little blurb about how, after attending services at a rustic Episcopal church on Sunday morning, the royal couple spent the afternoon picknicking and painting along a cliffside in Northern California. They really do seem wonderfully happy, and these Diana people who've been following them around holding up pictures of dog faces to protest Camilla are just very unhappy, unsettled people.
One thing that's always intrigued me about Charles is this. For all the accusations of adultery, etc., he's extremely high church in terms of the worship of the Church of England. When the CofE tried to get through a modern version of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, the heir to the throne went to great lengths to try and stop it, and he's patron of the Prayer Book Society.
If the usual trend keeps up, pretty soon he'll be a consultant to ICEL.
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posted by Rocco Palmo at 14:06
2 Comments:
even from the usually eager-beaver Anglo-Catholic crowd
Why would any self-respecting Anglo-Catholic care on whit for the antics of the son of the "Supreme Governor of the Church of England?" I think you're thinking of "anglo-philes," and while there's admittedly some unfortunate overlap, not all of us collect Princess Diana teacups, or railway timetables, or what-have-you.
he's extremely high church in terms of the worship of the Church of England
Not so much. He's devoted to the 1662 B.C.P., but doesn't seem to go into much of the type of thing that could be described as "high church," rumors of his imminent conversion to Orthodoxy notwithstanding.
Few Episcopal parishes ever used the Knott Missal. In fact, few used these missals to begin with. The ones that did tended to use the Anglican Missal published by the Frank Gavin Foundation and the American Missal which was published by (I think) the Society of St. John the Evangelist. Back in the 1980s, the final ECUSA parish I belonged to used the American Missal on weekdays and the Anglican Missal on Sundays. The continuing Anglican parish I attended during some of my college years had the Anglican Missal on the altar, but the form of the service was the 1928 Prayer Book.
Couple of other points. Prince Charles never prevented a modern Prayer Book or alternative service for that matter. The last attempt to revise the C of E Prayer Book was in 1928, which was defeated in Parliament. There have now been several iterations of modern alternative worship books to the Prayer Book and most C of E parishes use them. Some Anglo-Catholic parishes in England use the modern Roman Sacramentary - something which is almost never, ever done in ECUSA circles.
Re Prince Charles and Anglo-Catholics. Is my mind playing a trick on me, but I seem to remember that Canon John Andrew, formerly rector of St. Thomas, Fifth Avenue, was some sort of chaplain for Prince Charles. And, he is reportedly close to the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, who is kinda-sorta Anglo-Catholic.
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