[Magdalen] Temporarily Lutheran

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/16/2014 1:33:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com writes:

Never  will forget the Reformation Sunday, a few years ago, when a pickup
choir  did Bach's Cantata (what else could we do on Reformation  Sunday?)>>>
 
In the olden days prior to Vatican-2, you could get an idea of the
churchmanship (high/low) of an Episcopal parish via whether they
observed either Reformation Sunday (low church) or Christ the King
(high church) on the last Sunday of October.
 
Observance of Christ the King in Episcopal parishes was considered
almost sinfully high church, actually.  It's a johnny-come-lately  feast
with political overtones from 1925.
 
Vatican-2, of course, moved Christ the King to what had been the
Sunday Next Before Advent, and the feast found itself listed in  TEC
calendar.
 
Bach's "Wachet Auf" cantata was written for the Sunday Next Before  Advent,
which had scripture and Proper that was anticipatory of The Coming  even
though not in Advent.
 
 
David Strang - who remembers attending a "Solemn High Mass of the
Reformation" [!] at an especially high church Lutheran parish in St. Paul,  
MN.