BCP 1662 Evensong- too penitential for some?

Liturgyworks · Oct 30, 2019

Antony said: ↑

I certainly didn't nod off, but it might have been something to do with the service being delayed if you, Tiffy, can think of no reason one would omit it. It was at York Minster - so technically not a Cathedral I suppose - and a celebrity wedding was held - to which said celebrity arrived late - just prior. Perhaps they omitted it as they were running a bit late.

Thank you for the link to the interesting article Symphorian.

As an aside, during one of the readings from the New Testament, the speaker, a member of the laiety by the looks of it, sounded like he was reading in suspiciously contemporary English. I don't mean that he was reading in a contemporary accent, but rather the verb endings he used were not those I would expect from the KJV. Are the readings sometimes from contemporary translations of bible, or was he simply changing the language for whatever reason? Maybe I'm too cynical and the reader was indeed reading verbatim.
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York Minster is a cathedral by the way and always has been; it is the Cathedral Church of the Archbishop of York.

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BCP 1662 Evensong- too penitential for some?

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