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

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Henry Purcell - Jubilate Deo in D major, Z. 232 / The Choir of Clare Col...

For readers. I live at Camp Lejeune, NC, eastern USA, home to the "largest base on the East Cost for United States Marines," an honourable breed I proudly report that I served. I am old and live amongst these Marines. Yet, as a southern town, all we have is Anabaptists and Revivalists. Sad and sickening. Something must be done for "Mariners," Sailors and Marines. This scribe travels north each week--61 miles one way to an AMiA mission with a significant place, building, and organ. Yet, they gave way to CCM. The 1979 BCP is horrific enough. But last week, singing "Holy, Holy, Holy" to guitars, a drum, and some weak electronic organ...while the pipe organ sat silent. It's bad in the southeast, especially this town.

Privately, I feed myself. 1662 BCP. Bible lections and commentaries. 6-7K volumes here. Sing the Psalms, as prescribed with the 1662 BCP, by day and night using the Psalter-CD-set from St. Paul's Protestant and Anglican Cathedral, London. Ever feel alone? Well, something must be done locally. I can feed myself, but what about the 180K who live in this town, being fed by Anabaptists, Revivalists, and Pentecostalists?

We bring your Purcell's "Jubilate Deo," a Psalm sung in the morning.

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