[Magdalen] Temporarily Lutheran

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well, I'm not terribly fond of Christ the King Sunday, but it gives me a chance to open my sermon with "This  king broke all the rules!"

> On Sep 16, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 9/16/2014 1:33:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com writes:
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> 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?)>>>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> David Strang - who remembers attending a "Solemn High Mass of the
> Reformation" [!] at an especially high church Lutheran parish in St. Paul,  
> MN.
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