Comments | yrieithydd: Thurifry

yrieithydd

Thurifry

Feb 18, 2005 21:45

That was fun. As I mentioned, a friend was organising a service of Vespers as the Anglo-Saxons might have known it. She asked me to be thurifer which I was glad to do.So I turned up around 4pm this evening by which time the choir (of 4) had nearly finished their rehearsal. Chris* came out and gave me and the acolyte who'd arrived a sheet of ( Read more... )

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atreic February 18 2005, 22:43:58 UTC

The A word?

serenasnape February 18 2005, 23:25:21 UTC

Hi - it's Serena, the one in the choir today with pigtails :)

On the A-word, I wondered if we still said it because it wasn't it a feast day for Agatha? Or did I get the wrong end of the Latin stick?

Blessings xXx

robert_jones February 19 2005, 09:08:54 UTC

No knee is specified for genuflexion.

I don't think one may say the A-word even on a feast day (unlike the Gloria in excelsis).

sashajwolf February 23 2005, 01:22:03 UTC

It's the right knee, surely? At least, that's what I was taught when I went to church with RC friends as a child, and it's also what my Ritual Notes and the Catholic Encyclopaedia say (near the bottom of the page).

You and I and Ritual Notes are all agreed about the A-word and the Gloria, though ;-)

robert_jones February 23 2005, 21:05:14 UTC

I stand corrected.