tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post4862622182426399461..comments2024-03-25T20:43:33.067+00:00Comments on A Clerk of Oxford: 'Tidings, tidings that be true: Sorrow is past and joy doth renew'Clerk of Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-17375509161360882882017-02-03T14:05:25.478+00:002017-02-03T14:05:25.478+00:00Thanks for the beautiful carol. Also for reasoned...Thanks for the beautiful carol. Also for reasoned permission to go on having Christmas into January. I've always felt the season doesn't start properly until Christmas Eve, and consider myself shortchanged by Epiphany. Next year (d.v.) I'll keep Candlemas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-75134828477269296432015-02-05T13:22:36.416+00:002015-02-05T13:22:36.416+00:00O. M., I think you're right about 'oure ki...O. M., I think you're right about 'oure kinde' - I had a similar thought, but couldn't quite work out how to express it! I found this carol independently of 'A marvellous thing' (while reading a different anthology, in fact) and decided to post about it before I realised it was the other carol from Lansdowne 379. I'm not sure what it is about the two of them which Clerk of Oxfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-6996097751896440032015-02-03T10:08:14.670+00:002015-02-03T10:08:14.670+00:00I'm the author of the first comment. Our chur...I'm the author of the first comment. Our church (Scottish Episcopal, and very High Church) leaves the crib up until Candlemas. We have had no Christmas music in church since Epiphany, but we did have 'Of the Father's Love Begotten' on Sunday for Candlemas, as well as a few specifically Candlemas hymns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-52521147796833081622015-02-03T03:41:57.349+00:002015-02-03T03:41:57.349+00:00"If you read a medieval Christmas carol a day..."If you read a medieval Christmas carol a day for the forty days of the Christmas season, you wouldn't run out for years!" Wow - a thought at once heartening and daunting (vita brevis...)! Thank you in any case for this one, and your discussion of it! (I was vaguely wondering back in mid-December what the other one in Lansdowne 379 was...: what a gem it proves to be!)<br /><br />I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-50651580317948057562015-02-01T17:20:12.623+00:002015-02-01T17:20:12.623+00:00Our Anglican organist was disappointed to find tha...Our Anglican organist was disappointed to find that modern Roman Catholics "lost" Epiphany on the 7th Jan. and certainly no Sundays after. I wonder how many churches keep up cribs until Candlemass day ? My family are just beginning to take down a few decorations (actually just the tree) today [lst February]. C.M.Y. was a very Oxford Movement disciple and therefore well before the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-4741365048155850492015-01-31T12:15:09.860+00:002015-01-31T12:15:09.860+00:00Oh, that's very interesting - I don't reme...Oh, that's very interesting - I don't remember that about 'Pillars of the House'! It's far too long since I reread it. But yes, I can imagine this is one of those things where Yonge was more scrupulous than the rest of the world!<br /><br />I find it interesting that some Anglican churches (Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, for instance) use the season of Epiphany as a time Clerk of Oxfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-2767954671940628232015-01-31T09:03:49.412+00:002015-01-31T09:03:49.412+00:00In Charlotte Yonge's 'Pillars of the House...In Charlotte Yonge's 'Pillars of the House' Christmas is obviously extended well beyond Epiphany, for a Christmas Tree is taken to be put up as a treat for (I think - it's a while since I've read it) a Sunday School class, well on into January. It is no surprise to find CMY keeping the Church's Christmas - I wonder, though, how common this was in the mid-to-late Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com