Reformed Churchmen: Easter from King's College, Cambridge, 2012

Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Easter from King's College, Cambridge, 2012

Great services and great template for worship as we approach Holy Week, 2013.

We can do without the few speakers and would prefer simple, straight-forward Biblical lections, thank you. Robert Frost, thank you, but Biblical lections only. King's should clean this up.

Here's Easter from King's 2012.

Part one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt5Qsyg2mFQ

Part two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kizmMOEgQM

As usual, the liturgy and hymns far transcend the "talkers," or, "clerics." We have a suggestion for preachers and clerics. Be quiet. Sit down. Be quiet. Say nothing further. Rather than preach, just read Scriptures. We'll be better edified by the Scriptures than clerical reflections. (This is said after suffering much from many Episcopal sermons...some God-aweful sermons of the worst sort and without gravity, depth, and more...just sit down and let the Scriptures do the heavy lifting.)