St Leonard seems to be associated with ex-criminals or others otherwise at risk. I know of a transitional residence and of an organisation that provides assistance to newly released prisoners and to those potentially homeless
Wikipedia has a reasonable summary of St. Leonard, including why he is associated with the release of prisoners here.
Bearded ladies, Jumping Jews, and similar revels aren't, however, particularly associated with St. Leonard </blackadder>
If you are interested in the less recognised saints, the Rev Richard Coles has written books on their lives - he also posts short lives on his Twitter account, albeit somewhat erratically these days - here with St Claude (link)
Ah! Thank you @BroJames ! I couldn't remember whether it was on The Ship that I had asked about St Margaret or elsewhere. I should have thought to check my profile's history. Forgive my fogginess, please.
I have also since posting cleared up the St Leonard non-mystery. We now rejoin our regular programming.
If people want to check a friend regularly posts on Facebook pictures with info on the saints of the day. I have wondered whether I should encourage him to get a blog.
The secret Anglican Board on ye olde shippe used to have a wonderful thread detailing each day's saint.
Oh dear, have I broken a masonic secret here? I miss it, but visitations in the end petered out and it died.
The late (and most definitely great) James Kiefer prepared a calendar for saints remembered in the Episcopal Church. We use it daily. It's easily available - just key in his name and follow the links. There's an entry on the relevant day, clicking on the link gives a short biography etc. Some of those are probably not remembered elsewhere, such as a group of US chaplains killed in WW II when their ship was sunk. The nuns who died in the wreck of the Deutschland are also remembered.
The app Universalis is an excellent resource. It contains the RC calendar complete with biographies, the lectionary and the divine office. https://universalis.com/
The C of E has a book called *Exciting Holiness* (which I always read as *Exiting Holiness*).
It includes propers for various saints, and other holy women and men who have been part of British church history, along with brief biographies of each.
Given the sheer number of such saints, holy women etc. etc. down the ages, and in all denominations, it would be a bit of a job to cope with all of them!
The C of E has a book called *Exciting Holiness* (which I always read as *Exiting Holiness*).
It includes propers for various saints, and other holy women and men who have been part of British church history, along with brief biographies of each.
Given the sheer number of such saints, holy women etc. etc. down the ages, and in all denominations, it would be a bit of a job to cope with all of them!
The James Keifer site was interesting, for which thank you, but, yes, I was going to say that our list is pretty different from his. It also classifies saints into three different grades. There's an intermediate class that don't disrupt the programme of readings by getting their own but get voluntary collects and a bottom class that can be remembered but get neither.
Understandably, we don't have many of his North American names and he doesn't include many of our Anglo Saxon and recent British names. Today, for example, is a blank day on his list but is St Ethedreda on ours. July 1st in his is Catherine Winkworth, who was English but isn't in ours. On that day our list commemorates three generations of Venns who are post 1776.
Something that is a bit surprising from here is that his list includes various writers and other worthies, Chaucer, Shakespeare etc. They may be respected as worthies but I've never encountered them as being recommended as lives of faith to be emulated or spiritual figures to be followed. Does this actually come from the US Episcopal Church or is it a foible of his own?
Going back to Catherine Winkworth, she is well known and respected here. She even has a memorial in Bristol cathedral. However, by background, she was a Unitarian. Does any shipmate know whether she ever conformed?
The app Universalis is an excellent resource. It contains the RC calendar complete with biographies, the lectionary and the divine office. https://universalis.com/
For those wanting information rather than actual liturgy then the link in Universalis is to About Today. If you want pretty comprehensive coverage albeit from an English perspective then Ben is better. He keeps his eye on at least three different lists. The downfall is that he is mainly photos of saints.
Something that is a bit surprising from here is that his list includes various writers and other worthies, Chaucer, Shakespeare etc. They may be respected as worthies but I've never encountered them as being recommended as lives of faith to be emulated or spiritual figures to be followed. Does this actually come from the US Episcopal Church or is it a foible of his own?
I can't help you with your question. As to the general thrust of your paragraph, many of those he lists would not be on that of the CoE, or here either. They are still helpful in showing Christ's teaching in action.
ISTM that most churches or denominations have their own *favourite* lists. The Franciscan Office Book, used by C of E Franciscans, includes the Usual Suspects, and also (as additional commemorations) various luminaries of the Order.
Some of the latter may well not be commemorated anywhere else, I suppose.
NZ has its own wonderful saints book, too, For All the Saints. As it happens though I have remembered the US Chaplains in a liturgy, I think it was in the last couple of years. A poignant remembrance.
Something that is a bit surprising from here is that his list includes various writers and other worthies, Chaucer, Shakespeare etc. They may be respected as worthies but I've never encountered them as being recommended as lives of faith to be emulated or spiritual figures to be followed. Does this actually come from the US Episcopal Church or is it a foible of his own?
I don’t find Chaucer or Shakespeare included either in A Great Cloud of Witnesses: A Calendar of Commemorations (2016) or Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018, which I think are TEC’s most current calendars of commemoration.
Something that is a bit surprising from here is that his list includes various writers and other worthies, Chaucer, Shakespeare etc. They may be respected as worthies but I've never encountered them as being recommended as lives of faith to be emulated or spiritual figures to be followed. Does this actually come from the US Episcopal Church or is it a foible of his own?
I can't help you with your question. As to the general thrust of your paragraph, many of those he lists would not be on that of the CoE, or here either. They are still helpful in showing Christ's teaching in action.
FWIW the 1959/62 Canadian BCP has Caedmon (Feb 11) as first recorded Christian poet in England c. 680, Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, poet 1711, March 19; Also-ran poets, usually doubled with another qualification, include Thomas Aquinas, doctor and poet, March 7; John Keble of Oxford, scholar and poet, 1866, March 29; and Reginald Heber, Bishop in India, poet, April 3. I always thought there should be a common collect of poets, but nobody seems interested in that idea.
FWIW the 1959/62 Canadian BCP has Caedmon (Feb 11) as first recorded Christian poet in England c. 680, Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, poet 1711, March 19; Also-ran poets, usually doubled with another qualification, include Thomas Aquinas, doctor and poet, March 7; John Keble of Oxford, scholar and poet, 1866, March 29; and Reginald Heber, Bishop in India, poet, April 3. I always thought there should be a common collect of poets, but nobody seems interested in that idea.
A collect in the form of a limerick would be a nice touch. I’ll start with:
This poet the Church has adored
Believed in the power of the Word.
But running out of time,
And making his last rhyme,
Now dwells with Jesus Christ our Lord.
FWIW the 1959/62 Canadian BCP has Caedmon (Feb 11) as first recorded Christian poet in England c. 680, Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, poet 1711, March 19; Also-ran poets, usually doubled with another qualification, include Thomas Aquinas, doctor and poet, March 7; John Keble of Oxford, scholar and poet, 1866, March 29; and Reginald Heber, Bishop in India, poet, April 3. I always thought there should be a common collect of poets, but nobody seems interested in that idea.
A collect in the form of a limerick would be a nice touch. I’ll start with:
This poet the Church has adored
Believed in the power of the Word.
But running out of time,
And making his last rhyme,
Now dwells with Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
I'll alter that slightly, if I may be so bold, to:
This poet the Church has adored
Believed in the power of the Word.
He ran out of time,
And made his last rhyme,
But now dwells with Jesus our Lord.
FWIW the 1959/62 Canadian BCP has Caedmon (Feb 11) as first recorded Christian poet in England c. 680, Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, poet 1711, March 19; Also-ran poets, usually doubled with another qualification, include Thomas Aquinas, doctor and poet, March 7; John Keble of Oxford, scholar and poet, 1866, March 29; and Reginald Heber, Bishop in India, poet, April 3. I always thought there should be a common collect of poets, but nobody seems interested in that idea.
A collect in the form of a limerick would be a nice touch. I’ll start with:
This poet the Church has adored
Believed in the power of the Word.
But running out of time,
And making his last rhyme,
Now dwells with Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
I'll alter that slightly, if I may be so bold, to:
This poet the Church has adored
Believed in the power of the Word.
He ran out of time,
And made his last rhyme,
But now dwells with Jesus our Lord.
You may be so bold. I had thought of something similar, but I wanted the collect-style ending of JCoL.
Nice collaborative work @Bishops Finger and @TheOrganist. All we need do now is de-gender it. Shall we settle on:
This poet the Church has adored
Believed in the power of the Word.
They ran out of time,
And made their last rhyme,
And dwell with Christ Jesus our Lord.
Nice collaborative work @Bishops Finger and @TheOrganist. All we need do now is de-gender it. Shall we settle on:
This poet the Church has adored
Believed in the power of the Word.
They ran out of time,
And made their last rhyme,
And dwell with Christ Jesus our Lord.
Alter the opening words to ‘The poets’ and then you’d have a collect “Common of the Saints: Poets”
Mine, from the Compendium of Lost Propers, was: Almighty God, who did give such grace and sensitivity to the rhythms of language to your servant N. that through verse and image is revealed Your Glory and Loving-kindness to all creatures, so enable us to measure our days with scansion of an eternal nature, through ....
but the limerick beats all.
I don’t find Chaucer or Shakespeare included either in A Great Cloud of Witnesses: A Calendar of Commemorations (2016) or Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018, which I think are TEC’s most current calendars of commemoration.
I understand LFF 2006 is the current official kalendar of the American church; anything new since then has not yet been formally adopted but may be used provisionally. I wonder whether John Calvin would approve of the day he has in one of those books.
I don’t find Chaucer or Shakespeare included either in A Great Cloud of Witnesses: A Calendar of Commemorations (2016) or Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018, which I think are TEC’s most current calendars of commemoration.
I understand LFF 2006 is the current official kalendar of the American church; anything new since then has not yet been formally adopted but may be used provisionally. I wonder whether John Calvin would approve of the day he has in one of those books.
He’s probably be even more perplexed to find himself in the Calendar of Commemorations in The Book of Common Worship (2018) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)—that is, after he got over his surprise that there is such a calendar in the book at all.
I thought LFF 2018 had General C invention approval, but I certainly may have misunderstood.
For some reason, I seem to find myself quoted for @Nick Tamen's words. I was initially also puzzled by what LFF might stand for. All I could find was London Film Festival, but presumably it's Lesser Feasts and Fasts.
What though does "General C invention approval" mean? To those of us not in the know, that's gobbledygook.
If somebody only gets a commemoration, and especially if it's only a lesser commemoration, does that mean that the faithful are encouraged to remember them, but that if we seek the commemoratee's intercessions, we do so at our own risk? 😜 👺
For some reason, I seem to find myself quoted for @Nick Tamen's words. I was initially also puzzled by what LFF might stand for. All I could find was London Film Festival, but presumably it's Lesser Feasts and Fasts.
What though does "General C invention approval" mean? To those of us not in the know, that's gobbledygook.
Sorry! I didn’t catch that strange auto-correct. It should have been General Convention (of the Episcopal Church)—which some might say is still gobbledygook.
And yes, LFF is Lesser Feasts and Fasts, the full name of which was in the nested quote (misattributed to you) and in my earlier post.
Listening to Choral Evensong yesterday (from the BBC) and following along during the Psalms in my black Morocco-bound BCP, 1662 ... I noticed the absence of "Philip, Duke of Edinburgh" in the prayers for the royal family ... I cannot bring myself to deface my lovely little book by crossing the name out ...
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Wikipedia has a reasonable summary of St. Leonard, including why he is associated with the release of prisoners here.
Bearded ladies, Jumping Jews, and similar revels aren't, however, particularly associated with St. Leonard </blackadder>
I have also since posting cleared up the St Leonard non-mystery. We now rejoin our regular programming.
Oh dear, have I broken a masonic secret here? I miss it, but visitations in the end petered out and it died.
The late (and most definitely great) James Kiefer prepared a calendar for saints remembered in the Episcopal Church. We use it daily. It's easily available - just key in his name and follow the links. There's an entry on the relevant day, clicking on the link gives a short biography etc. Some of those are probably not remembered elsewhere, such as a group of US chaplains killed in WW II when their ship was sunk. The nuns who died in the wreck of the Deutschland are also remembered.
https://universalis.com/
It includes propers for various saints, and other holy women and men who have been part of British church history, along with brief biographies of each.
Given the sheer number of such saints, holy women etc. etc. down the ages, and in all denominations, it would be a bit of a job to cope with all of them!
The excellent Simon Kershaw's excellent Almanac is, well… excellent!
The View tab gives you on screen access to everything you need for the day.
Understandably, we don't have many of his North American names and he doesn't include many of our Anglo Saxon and recent British names. Today, for example, is a blank day on his list but is St Ethedreda on ours. July 1st in his is Catherine Winkworth, who was English but isn't in ours. On that day our list commemorates three generations of Venns who are post 1776.
Something that is a bit surprising from here is that his list includes various writers and other worthies, Chaucer, Shakespeare etc. They may be respected as worthies but I've never encountered them as being recommended as lives of faith to be emulated or spiritual figures to be followed. Does this actually come from the US Episcopal Church or is it a foible of his own?
Going back to Catherine Winkworth, she is well known and respected here. She even has a memorial in Bristol cathedral. However, by background, she was a Unitarian. Does any shipmate know whether she ever conformed?
For those wanting information rather than actual liturgy then the link in Universalis is to About Today. If you want pretty comprehensive coverage albeit from an English perspective then Ben is better. He keeps his eye on at least three different lists. The downfall is that he is mainly photos of saints.
I can't help you with your question. As to the general thrust of your paragraph, many of those he lists would not be on that of the CoE, or here either. They are still helpful in showing Christ's teaching in action.
Some of the latter may well not be commemorated anywhere else, I suppose.
NZ has its own wonderful saints book, too, For All the Saints. As it happens though I have remembered the US Chaplains in a liturgy, I think it was in the last couple of years. A poignant remembrance.
I agree entirely.
FWIW the 1959/62 Canadian BCP has Caedmon (Feb 11) as first recorded Christian poet in England c. 680, Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, poet 1711, March 19; Also-ran poets, usually doubled with another qualification, include Thomas Aquinas, doctor and poet, March 7; John Keble of Oxford, scholar and poet, 1866, March 29; and Reginald Heber, Bishop in India, poet, April 3. I always thought there should be a common collect of poets, but nobody seems interested in that idea.
A collect in the form of a limerick would be a nice touch. I’ll start with:
This poet the Church has adored
Believed in the power of the Word.
But running out of time,
And making his last rhyme,
Now dwells with Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
I'll alter that slightly, if I may be so bold, to:
This poet the Church has adored
Believed in the power of the Word.
He ran out of time,
And made his last rhyme,
But now dwells with Jesus our Lord.
You may be so bold. I had thought of something similar, but I wanted the collect-style ending of JCoL.
How about *And dwells with Christ Jesus our Lord*?
This poet the Church has adored
Believed in the power of the Word.
They ran out of time,
And made their last rhyme,
And dwell with Christ Jesus our Lord.
Alter the opening words to ‘The poets’ and then you’d have a collect “Common of the Saints: Poets”
And even better if you you reverse "now dwells" to "dwells now".
Almighty God, who did give such grace and sensitivity to the rhythms of language to your servant N. that through verse and image is revealed Your Glory and Loving-kindness to all creatures, so enable us to measure our days with scansion of an eternal nature, through ....
but the limerick beats all.
I thought LFF 2018 had General C invention approval, but I certainly may have misunderstood.
What though does "General C invention approval" mean? To those of us not in the know, that's gobbledygook.
If somebody only gets a commemoration, and especially if it's only a lesser commemoration, does that mean that the faithful are encouraged to remember them, but that if we seek the commemoratee's intercessions, we do so at our own risk? 😜 👺
And yes, LFF is Lesser Feasts and Fasts, the full name of which was in the nested quote (misattributed to you) and in my earlier post.