Sundays at All Hallows (Sunday, May 18, 2025) Is Now Online
This Sunday is the Fifth Sunday of Easter, the season, and the Fourth Sunday after Easter, the day. This Sunday’s service is Festal Morning Prayer, using the order for Daily Morning Prayer, Rite Two, from The Book of Common Prayer (1979). When the office is celebrated as the principal service on a Sunday or feast day, it is done differently from the way it might done on an ordinary weekday.
An instrumental prelude may be played before the service, followed by a period of silence. (Unlike previous American Prayer Books, the rubrics of the 1979 Prayer Book make no provision for a hymn before or after the service or before or after the sermon and none was intended.) The invitatory psalm and the canticles after the lessons are sung. Metrical versions of these songs may be used. On special occasions a hymn may be sung in place of a canticle. The variable psalm or psalms are recited or sung. Metrical versions of the psalms may also be used.
The rubrics of the office permit the singing of texts like the Apostles’ Creed and the Lord’s Prayer. Metrical versions of these texts may be used as well as non-metrical ones.
A hymn or anthem may be sung after the collects, and an offering received and presented at this point in the service.
While a sermon or homily may be preached after this hymn or anthem or after the service, the most appropriate place to preach a sermon or homily is immediately after the last reading.
One of the distinctive features of the Daily Office in the American Prayer Books is that the lesser doxology, Gloria Patri, is said or sung after the variable psalms. This is also the practice in the Daily Office of the Eastern Orthodox Church. When Percy Dearmer, English Anglican priest, liturgical scholar, and hymn composer made a lecture tour in the United States in 1919, he discovered that it was a longstanding practice to sing this doxology even when the variable psalms were recited, using both non-metrical and metrical versions of the doxology. In The Art of Public Worship (1920), which contains the lectures that he gave on this tour, he recommends this practice. It enables a congregation to end the psalmody o a note of praise, reminiscent of the laudate psalms which were at one time a fixed element of Lauds, an ancient form of Daily Morning Prayer and from which Lauds derived its name.
In this Sunday’s message we unpack the new commandment that Jesus gave his disciples on the night of his arrest after Judas had left to betray him.
Readings: Acts 11: 1-18; Revelation 21: 1-6; and John 13: 31-35
Message: A New Commandment
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If you are new to Sundays at All Hallows, you may find these directions helpful:
-It is recommended that after reading or hearing each lesson to take time to reflect on what you read or heard during the period of silence which follows each lesson. It is also recommended that you do the same thing after reading or hearing the message.
-When you open the link to a video in a new tab, check auto-play to make sure it is in the off position. Otherwise, a second video with a different song will follow the first.
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-If a song begins partway through the video, click pause, move the slider to the beginning, and then click play.
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May Sundays at All Hallows be a blessing to you.
Anglicans Ablaze