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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Gordon, Thank you for enhancing my clearly patchy knowledge. (One of the advantages of plunging in with ill-informed comments is that then SOMEONE knowledgeable IMMEDIATELY puts the record straight - to everyone's advantage.) Can you clarify for me two points - Would the package of Mattins + Litany + Ante Communion + a 2(?) hour sermon have been general in the 18th C or would you have been more likely to find it in an urban or a rural church ? Or simply where the parson was conscientious ?. Was the afternoon service sans sermon Evensong ? Thank you, Brenda. ----- Original Message ----- From: Revd Gordon Plumb To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:57 AM Subject: Re: [M-R] Book of Common Prayer / Parker Society medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture You comments about the morning service are not quite correct: The Morning service would have been of Mattins, (often followed by the Litany as the Prayer Book Rubrics demanded) then Ante-Communion (The Communion Service down to the Prayer for the Church Militant) plus a sermon, This would have taken up quite a chunk of the morning, especially since sermons then were not of the length of today! There would also have been an afternoon service, usually without sermon. Gordon Plumb ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html