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An Open Letter to Archbishop Justin

Your Grace,

I wish to send my most sincere, if overdue, congratulations to you, Archbishop Justin, on your election to the Primate of All England and the spiritual head of the Global Anglican Communion. Your story is rather inspiring; from oil man to Archbishop in no time. You surely have your work set out for you. Following in the footsteps of giants, holding an unruly communion together, and the care of some 80 million souls in this troubling age are no small tasks. That being said, there is one matter that must be discussed.  

In your tenure as Archbishop of Canterbury, it has come to my attention that your collar is in a perilous state. Whether speaking with the media or performing liturgical tasks, it seems to precariously hang from your neck: perhaps you are metaphorically mirroring the flexibility of Anglican practice or the loose bonds of affection found in the Anglican Communion.

Nevertheless, this is an intervention of love. For the sake of all in the Church of England and in our Communion, we ask that you properly adjust your clericals. This blog will be utterly destroyed with the fulfillment of one of the following two conditions:

(1) you diligently push in your collar and show due progress in this task; (2) you inform us (privately or publicly) of a medical condition that would make carrying out this task an impediment.

We pray for your leadership as well as your clericals.

Our Lady of Walsingham

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It’s interesting to hear the original source of the melody Liszt used for everybody’s favorite half-hour long organ piece.

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Section of the chapel of the holy cross of the Cathedral of Aix

#architecture #this is a little extra even for my tastes tbh

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St Augustine, Kilburn

When I considered the task of posting a beautiful church every Sunday the first that popped into my head was St Augustine in Kilburn. A Victorian beast, designed by J.L. Pearson in 1870-80 it stands out from the drab surrounds of this corner of north London as one of the finest Victorian churches in England.

Betjeman says, in his Parish Churches of England, “the way to see this church is to walk right round the inside, watching arch cutting into arch giving a different vista with every step”. Simon Jenkins describes it as “one of London’s most original and magnificent places of worship”. 

#england #architecture

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oh yeah I’m going to the OHS con this year so I’ll try and post some photos from that

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Crépin Carlier really knocked this facade out of the park

The organ’s not bad, either

#organ #orgue #france #st-ouen #the joke here is the organ is excellent #Cavaillé-Coll #pipe organ

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Ruffatti, 1952

Santa Maria Della Vittoria

Rome, Italy

#organ #very good case #italy #pipe organ

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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Umberto Boccioni, Modern and Contemporary Art

Medium: Bronze

Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/485540

#statue

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Ducroquet honestly had some good facades.

The organ of the cathedral at Clermont-Ferrand

#orgue #organ #pipe organ #france #ducroquet

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Should I use my connections at Grace Cathedral to try and get a Solemn Sarum Use Mass performed there?

If they’re going to be so absurdly latitudinarian as to do a beyonce mass they might as well go the other way, liturgically speaking.

#anglican

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Trying to find a place to practice over the summer is so tough :/

#I need to be practiced in time for the OHS convention so I don't embarrass myself

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The Sainte Chapelle at the Chateau de Vincennes, Paris

#architecture

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Peter Van de Velde plays Franck, Messiaen, Jongen, and others at the inaugural concert of the restored IV/90 1890 Pierre Schyven organ in Antwerp Cathedral.

#organ #pipe organ #orgel #messiaen #franck

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alright folks I’m back, have an unpleasant headache, and am desperately looking for somewhere to practice over the summer.

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A. Cavaillé-Coll (1889) reb. Gonzalez (1975).

The grand organ at the Eglise Saint-Leon, Nancy

#organ #orgue #france #cavaille-coll

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oh hey my boss designed that

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Original Builders:

1. Luis Antonio dos Santos, 1808

2. Lorenzo López de Galarreta y Baquedano, 1642

3. Gomez, 1733 (Can’t find out which member of the Gomez family)

4. Jean de Joyuse, 1676

5. Desfontaines and Piette, 1717

6. Albertus Antonius Hinsz, 1781

7. William Deakens, 1643

8. Johann Nepomuk Holzhey, 1798

9. Leonardo Fernández Davila, 1744/1749

10. Marcussen with facade after Maas/Lorentz, 1864. Esaias Compenius’ far more interesting instrument is at the other end of the chapel.

                                  The Sound Of Heaven (Series 7)

1. Igreja do Seminário Maior de Viseu, Viseu, Portugal

2. Iglesia de Santo Tomas de Haro, :La Rioja, Spain

3. Iglesia do Sao Miguel,Coimbra, Portugal

4. Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rodez, France

5. Ancienne cathédrale Notre-Dame, Saint-Omer, France 

6. Martini Church, Bolsward, Netherlands

7. Maria Magdalena Church, Holland

8. Neresheim Klosterkirche, Bade-Wurtemberg, Germany

9. Granada Cathedral, Granada, Spain

10. Compenius Organ, Frederiksborg, Denmark

#please remember the builders and artists who make these instruments