It is springtime and we have exciting new things on Episcopal Chant! @rpryor03.bsky.social and I have been hard at work improving this liturgical chant database that aims to make it easy for anyone to get up and chanting. Here's a thread of new stuff: 🧵 ⚓

With many thanks to the my colleague in this ministry, the great @arliecoles.bsky.social and the Association of Anglican Musicians, Episcopal Chant has expanded to include the Psalms, Book of Occasional Services, and more! ⚓ episcopalnewsservice.org/pressrelease...

If you want to learn more about this trial and what it tells us about Americans and race 100 years ago at a time similar to our own, check out Elizabeth Smith-Pryor, Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness. www.amazon.com/Property-Rit...

Also, if you've never read or listened to this sermon by Mtr. Erika Takacs about the WORD chord, now's a great time. #9lc #wat www.saintmarksphiladelphia.org/sermons/2015...

And we got the chord. Merry Christmas from my apartment in Cleveland to all y'all! #9lc

You can find this arrangement of "I saw three ships" in Carols for Choirs 6, which has some real gems in it by composers like Jerrick Cavagnaro, Marques L.A. Garrett, and Ghislaine Reece-Trapp. (And also some stuff I heard and was like "hm, I don't think we needed another version of that") #9lc

This Willcocks arrangement is a straight up BANGER with that third verse reharmonization for Herod. #9lc

John Scott was, in my opinion, one of the best hymn arrangers. This descant is lush and the reharm is great. No one did it like him. #9lc #wat

This lesson is proof for the Anglophiles in the USA that you don't have to have a British accent to read the Word of Lord with purpose and gravity. (You can do that with *any* accent!) #9lc 🕯️

"Upon another shore and in a greater light &c" is one of the best-written prayers in English. What imagery! #9lc #wat

What do modular smartphones, Marilynne Robinson, and Wendell Berry have to do with discerning what common prayer looks like? After Monday's @earthandaltar piece, I suggest that "modular liturgies" could be the future of common prayer in #TEC. earthandaltarmag.com/posts/modula...

First half of a 2-parter up @earthandaltarmag.com on #Anglican liturgical Congregationalism: what does it look like, is it authentic to our tradition, and how do we reform it? Discussing ideas from, amongst others, @liturgy.bsky.social and the Tractarians. earthandaltarmag.com/posts/doing-...

A great article in @earthandaltarmag.com today by Seminary of the Southwest's Academic Dean (and my former professor in college) Ben King on his experience contributing to Newman's positio and meeting Pope Leo XIV in October! You won't want to miss this. ⚓ earthandaltarmag.com/posts/home-t...

Massive institution run by men gets run into the ground in some profound way ➡️ figurehead resigns so people will stop yelling at him ➡️ First Woman Figurehead is appointed to the impossible task of uniting and cleaning up an institution whose wounds have been left to fester for decades/ centuries.

The 106th Archbishop of Canterbury is SARAH MULALLY, BISHOP OF LONDON. #anglican

Though with a scornful wonder Men see her sore opprest, By schisms rent asunder, By heresies distrest, Yet saints their watch are keeping, Their cry goes up, "How long?" And soon the night of weeping Shall be the morn of song. - Samuel Stone (1839-1900) Published in Lyra Fidelium, 1866. #tec

just to remind everyone, TEC is supposed to vote on approving Rite I in contemporary English next GC, so we've prepared some proposed renderings for them. I really hope this goes thru! ⚓️ episcopalchant.com/eucharist/eu...

What might the confessional heritage of our Anglican tradition have to teach us today? Using the Presiding Bishop's recent op-ed as a jumping off point, I think there's a whole lot. Now up on @earthandaltarmag.com, link below. ⚓ #Episcopal

Great news for #tec and the #anglican world. Kara is a first-rate teacher and the Diocese of New Jersey (and its neighbors) are full of great churches and people. This is truly what #PTSemLooksLike!

Make no mistake: if he rose at all It was as His body; If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle, The Church will fall. - John Updike, "Seven Stanzas at Easter" ⚓

Where is the good news for the older of the two brothers in last Sunday's Gospel? To get to a good answer, two twentieth century authors may point us in the right direction - more at the link below. ⚓️

Here's a whacky idea. What if we all give up service leaflets for Lent? It will save time, money, and, most important, trees. And then we can take on the spiritual discipline of hospitality. 1/3 ⚓️

[email protected] and I have added two new items to Episcopal Chant for those of you planning for Holy Week already! Both stem from the alternative liturgy for Good Friday, approved by GC in 2024-A115: episcopalchant.com/seasonal/hol... 🧵⚓

OK, Episcopalians, I need your help. I'm doing some copyright research on Howard Galley, and he's the copyright owner for something listed as the "Seabury diary, 1989." Does anyone know what this would have been? 📕

I'll be officiating tonight! Come if you're in town! ⚓

In a totally non-jokey way, what is lost in the renaming of the feast is a day to reflect on Jesus the Jew. Jesus who first came to lost sheep of Israel. Jesus who came not to abolish but fulfill Torah. Without any of that he doesn’t make much sense. 📕

A while back, @rpryor03.bsky.social and @askwallace.bsky.social and I set Eliza Humphreys' metrical paraphrases of the BCP collects to tunes. Here's St. Stephen's to DETROIT, one of my favorites in the collection:

There's the chord, and now I get to go do church. What a day! #9lc

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." We cannot repeat this often enough. In this score-keeping and greedy world, we need to bear witness of God's grace. #9lc

God, Peter Warlock. What a composer, what a man (you should read his wikipedia page...) #9lc

Ok I'm crying laughing at #9lc next to these tags. The light shines in the dark... 😂

THAT was an ending. #9lc

Christopher Robinson doesn't, in my opinion, get enough attention or scheduling for his arranging skills. #9lc

There's few things better than a di Lasso polyphony. #9lc

Ooh, that basso profundo at the end... lovely. And right into the Basque Carol! #9lc

The Maconchy, it should be said, is published by Multitude of Voyces, which publishes a lot of great female-identifying composers! #9lc

Martin's writing here has some lush chords, which is lovely to hear in lieu of the Ord like everyone else does. (Although the Ireland is really good, too, and should be scheduled more!) #9lc

I think "He came down" is such a spine-tingling moment of incarnation. #9lc

I will say - this bidding prayer is one of the most glorious prayers. Just perfectly written. #9lc

Good morning, friends - glad to be here for #9lc today.

Since it's Advent and the season of the Magnificat I want to repost the unofficial caucus hymn Thanks to @rpryor03.bsky.social for helping to set the musical arrangement.

JUST ANNOUNCED: Dr. Kwok Pui-Lan and Bp. Ian Douglas are doing a sequel to _Beyond Colonial Anglicanism_, coming out next year. #AARSBL24 #anglican

For whoever is reading or listening, please, do not call us 'victims' of abuse — whether physical, mental, or spiritual. Please call us 'survivors' and help us change the narrative. We were victims. We are now survivors. Many Thanks. x #episcopal #anglican ⚓ ✝️

@hannahnpbowman.bsky.social, you had offered in the past to assist in following publishing contracts with (now HarperCollins) for Howard Galley if we identified his current heirs. Any chance we could DM about this?

Congratulations to St Patrick on his successful thesis defense

WORD. Merry Christmas, friends! ⚓

Here we go. ⚓️