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St. Francis SFPS-2 (1967) Up to now the early post-Vatican II albums have come from the U.S. But there was activity in this field in the U.K. also, and probably the best known artist/song writer to get things started was Sebastian Temple. Born in South Africa, he emigrated to the UK, where he spent many …
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FEL 810F-6242 (1966) One of the early "sensations" of the post-Vatican II Catholic music world was the young nun Sister Germaine Habjan, who produced this album of songs and narrative (Episcopal ministers Ian Mitchell and Frederick Gere also included narrative) based on Scripture and other sources. By later standards it's a plain album, but it's …
As we march through this Lenten season, complete with the silliness over the sequester and the post-modern version of the Great Refusal, we come to yet another saga in the Anglican/Episcopal world--the volte-face that has taken place by the Truro Anglican Church and its rector, Tory Baucum, vis-Ã -vis the Episcopal Bishop of Virginia, Shannon Johnston. …
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FEL S-252 (1968) Anyone who has rummaged (physically or virtually) through the discography of the "Jesus Music" era usually has strong ideas about which albums and artists affected them personally, and which ones changed the course of the life of the church. For Evangelicals, artists such as Larry Norman, Phil Keaggy or the Second Chapter …
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no label 2345 (1970) Some people will find the connection between "folk music" and "the Bronx" akin to salsa coming from New York City, but here it is anyway. This album, produced right about the time the Novus Ordo Missae was made official, is a rambling folk album whose style is, in many ways, more …
Epoch VII WV01 (1974) Most people associate post-Vatican II Catholic music with the folk Mass type music that's featured regularly on this blog. But there were some exceptions, and this album--and artist--was one of them. This is a very good, straightforward folk album, more like (as Ken Scott points out in Archivist) Maranatha artists Karen …
CAVS/Fountain FTN 2506 (1977) Folk albums by nuns were fairly common in the 1960's and 1970's; this site features Roman Catholic religious such as Juliana Garza and the School Sisters of Notre Dame. This one, however, is different in one important respect: the sisters are Anglican. Two of them were of the Community of the …
It wasn't always so, at least not as we understand it. In discussing Leo the Great, Hughes Oliphant Old's The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Vol. 2: The Patristic Age has this to say: Lent has usually been explained as a period of forty days during which …
The Virgina House of Delegates means well... A BILL THAT would allow Virginia students who are home-schooled to play on public-school sports teams has cleared the state House and is now headed to a Senate committee, where a similar measure died last year. ...but personally I think they should skip the risks to life and …
This came as something of a shock: Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday that he would resign on February 28 -- the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years -- setting the stage for a conclave to elect a new pope before the end of March. A Vatican official said the Holy See hopes …
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