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Queen Hands Out Minted Coins on 'Maundy Thursday,' 2010.
Such is also the 8OOth Year of the Maundy Ceremony.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/01/world/AP-EU-Britain-Maundy-Thursday.html?_r=1
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/01/world/AP-EU-Britain-Maundy-Thursday.html?_r=1
Confessing Anglicans.
By C. F. Fry.
Maundy Notes & Editing
By Uncle Monty.
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Triduum Sacrum - (Lat. The Sacred Three Days) -
Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.
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Triduum Sacrum - (Lat. The Sacred Three Days) -
Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.
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"Maundy Thursday is the Thursday before Easter
Sunday, observed by Anglicans in commemoration
of Christ's Last Supper."
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"The name Maundy is derived from mandatum (Lat.
'commandment'), the first word of an anthem sung in the
liturgical ceremony on that day. In Roman Catholic, and
many Protestant churches, The Eucharist is celebrated
in an evening liturgy that includes Holy Communion."
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"During the Catholic liturgy, the ceremony of the washing of
the feet, or pedilavium, is performed: the celebrant – a bishop
or a priest - washes the feet of 12 people to commemorate
Christ's washing of his disciples' feet. In England, a custom
survives of giving alms ("royal maundy money") to the poor;
this recalls an earlier practice in which the sovereign washed
the feet of the poor on Maundy Thursday. In most European
countries, the day is known as Holy Thursday."
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"Maundy Thursday is of religious importance to (confessing)
"Maundy Thursday is of religious importance to (confessing)
Anglicans, along with Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists,
Church of the Brethren and Catholics."
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"As the (vigil) and eve of the institution of the Lord's Supper,
Maundy Thursday has been kept by devout Christians from
earliest times. By the 4th century it was a feast of The
Jerusalem Church, and in the 6th century in Gaul it was
observed as Natalis Calicis ('Birthday of the Chalice')."
In medevial Britain, it was known as Chare Thursday
(from the scrubbing of the altar) and in Germany as Green
Thursday (Grundonnerstag, either from the green
vestments then worn or from grunen, "to mourn")."
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"The day is (also) associated with Tenebrae, a ceremony
of extinguishing the altar candles in preparation for Good
Friday. (Such is) observed in the Holy Catholic Church.
Maundy Thursday ceremonies appear in Anglican,
Orthodox, Congregational, Lutheran and Reformed
Episcopal, liturgical calendars and is almost universally
celebrated with (the rites) of the Lord's Supper."
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Hark! How the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own.
Awake, my soul, and sing of him who died for thee, and hail
him as thy matchless King through all eternity.
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Crown him the virgin's Son, the God incarnate born, whose
arm those crimson trophies won which now His brow adorn;
fruit of the mystic rose, as of that rose the stem; the root
whence mercy ever flows, the Babe of Bethlehem.
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Crown him the Son of God, before the worlds began, and ye
who tread where he hath trod, crown him the Son of Man; who
every grief hath known that wrings the human breast, and
takes and bears them for His own, that all in him may rest.
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Crown him the Lord of life, who triumphed over the grave,
and rose victorious in the strife for those he came to save.
His glories now we sing, who died, and rose on high, who
died eternal life to bring, and lives that death may die.
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Crown him the Lord of peace, whose power a scepter sways
from pole to pole, that wars may cease, and all be prayer and
praise his reign shall know no end, and round his piercèd feet
fair flowers of paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet.
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Crown him the Lord of love, behold his hands and side,
those wounds, yet visible above, in beauty glorified. No
angel in the sky can fully bear that sight, but downward
bends his burning eyeat mysteries so bright.
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Crown him the Lord of Heaven, enthroned in worlds above,
crown him the King to whom is given the wondrous name
of Love.
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Crown him with many crowns, as thrones before him fall;
Crown him, ye kings, with many crowns, for he is King of all.
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Crown him the Lord of lords, who over all doth reign, who
once on earth, the incarnate Word, for ransomed sinners slain,
now lives in realms of light, where saints with angels sing their
songs before him day and night,their God, Redeemer, King.
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Crown him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time, Creator
of the rolling spheres, ineffably sublime. all hail, Redeemer,
hail! For thou has died for me; thy praise and glory
shall not fail throughout eternity.
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Maundy Notes By Uncle Monty.
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As a Confessing Anglican, Maundy Thursday has
always been important to me since becoming an
adult Christain. It is part of my faith and part of
the "sacred three days" that binds Holy Week each
year with those significant religious dates in the
Anglican Church's yearly calendar.
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What is also special about Maundy Thursday is the
fact the our reigning monarch presents royal maundy
money each year to worthy British pensioners.
In 2008, the Queen for the first time presented such
maundy money at the Church of Ireland as seen in the
above lead photo of Her Majesty and Prince Philip.
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And while talking of the Anglican Church of Ireland, I
thought the website ukirishhistory did a good job of
presenting the ins and outs, if you will, of the historical
background behind the giving of maundy money and
the maundy service. So I decided to include a little
bit from ukirishhistory for you:
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"The distribution of maundy money dates back to the 13th
"The distribution of maundy money dates back to the 13th
century and the recipients were selected as a reward for their
service to the community. Until the 18th century, the money
went only to persons of the same sex as the reigning monarch,
but thereafter both equal numbers of men and women were
rewarded. With each passing year, one more penny is added
to commemorate the monarch's age. Instead of general
currency, coins were especially minted for the occasion in
four denominations - a groat, a threepence, a half groat and
a penny. They were - and still are, made of silver. The British
coins bear the original image of Queen Elizabeth II, first
minted at the time of her accession in 1953 and designed
by artist Mary Gillick."
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"The Maundy Service is now held at different cathedrals each
"The Maundy Service is now held at different cathedrals each
year and pensioners from that locality are selected to be re-
cipients of the royal largesse. Yeomen in their traditional tudor
uniforms carry the money to the cathedral on golden alms
trays on which are a series of red and white pouches."
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"Each recipient will receive one of each colour, in which will be the
traditional maundy coins (white purse) and some other symbolic
money (in red). In 2009 at Bury St Edmunds, a special £5 coin
was distrubuted, marking the 500th anniversary of the accession
of Henry VIII plus a 50 pence coin celebrating the founding of
Kew Gardens."
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This year 2010 the Maundy Ceremony moves to Derby
This year 2010 the Maundy Ceremony moves to Derby
Cathedral at where the Queen will hand out maundy money
to the value of 84 pence, being the sum of her age.
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So here we are at another Holy Week. As good Christians,
I pray we will remember our Lord's Cruxification and His
Resurrection by taking personal time to mark this
Triduum Sacrum. And remember without Him in
our lives, our world would be even more of a grimmer
place to live. It is through Him then, that our lives hold
a special meaning and spiritual value that is otherwise
dead without Him. When we have "things," but not
Him, then we are hollow and empty despite all the
shopping bags, fancy clothes, greediness, full food
larders, and expensive digital gadgets, that we
surround our modern and secular lives with ...
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I see in London so many empty people, day in and
day out, I could almost cry for them ... Yet, they gladly
go on their self-centred ways without a single thought
for their utter emptiness and Godless lives! Most
of them will do that until the very day they die
and never know or care of who was Him!!
So, pitiful are they ... aren't they?
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Faithfully, Uncle Monty.
+Tuesday of Holy Week, 2010.
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"The Christianists" or Hutaree Christian Warriors.
"The Christianists" or Hutaree Christian Warriors.
By Mike Householder, Associated Press
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/63474
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/63474
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It would take only the secularist and arrogant and
It would take only the secularist and arrogant and
governmentally-armed-to-the-teeth FBI to make
raids and arrests of Christian folks on ironically the
eve of Holy Week!! Surely, we'd expect Muslim cops
in Iran or Islamic states to do such to Christians and
not our Yankee cops? But not so, baby, in the Good
Ole US of A of today ... No, sireeeeeeeeeee!
Renewed call made for a common Christian Easter calendar.
New York (Ecumenical News International - ENI).
The U.S National Council of Churches has renewed its call to set
a common date for the celebration of Easter, when Christians
mark the raising of Jesus from the dead. This year marks a rare
occurrence as Christians from both Orthodox and non-Orthodox
traditions will mark Easter on 4 April. A similar call for a common
date for Easter was made more than 10 years ago, when
Orthodox and non-Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter
on the same date.
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The renewed call came in a joint letter to member churches
by the Rev. Michael Kinnamon, the NCC's general secretary,
and Antonios Kireopoulos, the NCC's director for faith and order
and interfaith relations. They said that "almost every year the
Christian community is divided over which day to proclaim this
good news. Our split, based on a dispute having to do with
ancient calendars, visibly betrays the message of recon-
ciliation. It is a scandal that surely grieves our God."
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Coming shortly: "Making Way For The Holy Father."
By Uncle Monty. Preparing for Pope Benedict XVI's
Official State Visit to the United Kingdom for
this September, 2010.
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