Tag Archives: Sarum

Archives from Static site

Please see Static Website on its way out. On this page, I will reproduce the most important texts which are going to be lost from early March this year. Hostpapa have refunded the subscription they wanted from me for 2026-2029. I thank … Continue reading

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Static Website on its way out

I have cancelled the website As the Sun in its Orb for reasons of the host’s subscriptions tripling over the past couple of years. Here are the two main pages, but many of the links will soon be dead. If … Continue reading

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Sarum Ordo 2023-2024

I have just compiled a Sarum ordo for 2023-2024 in collaboration with Fr Andrew Scurr following the perpetual calendar of Dr William Renwick and the Pie. Please notify me in case of errors. https://civitas-dei.eu/Ordo_Sarum_2023-2024.pdf

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The Lost Chord

In the early 1990’s a friend in London introduced me to a periodical and a series of cassette tapes intended to reproduce the style of the BBC Home Service of before World War II. I wrote about this stuff long … Continue reading

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Ceremonies of the Sarum Missal

A very kind friend bought and sent me a copy of R.J. Urquhart’s Ceremonies of the Sarum Missal. It is not a book I would have bought myself given its high price set by the publisher T&T Clark. I was … Continue reading

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A Day in the Life of Salisbury Cathedral, ca. 1500

Dr William Renwick “will be presenting this lecture ‘live’ on Youtube this coming Friday at 1:00 pm UK time. It should probably also be available for later viewing. This illustrated lecture will describe in outline what Friday December 18 would … Continue reading

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Simplified Sarum Ordo

Here is my simplified Sarum calendar from December 2020 to end of November 2021. I have given only the Sundays and Feasts, so you are advised to consult the rubrics of the missal, breviary, pie and customary to establish priories … Continue reading

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All Saints 2020

Here is my Mass of today. We in France are in lockdown, and British people have still been able to go to church today.

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La Fête-Dieu 2020

Corpus Christi according to the Use of Sarum. The proper is identical to that in the Roman missal. I give a few reflections on the joy of La Fête-Dieu in French or Fronleichnam in German as still celebrated in towns … Continue reading

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Ascension 2020

Here is today’s Mass of the Feast of the Ascension in the Use of Sarum. I did not prepare a sermon but simply gave a few simple reflections. I hope they make sense.

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