Tallis: Five-Part English Litany (Cranmer's original text of 1544)

Text: Cranmer's English Litany as published in 1544, subtitles in modern spelling.
Image: ‘Rogation Day, St Ives, Cornwall’ by William Holt Yates Titcomb, exhibited 1906. The priest in the painting was Bernard Walke, then Curate of St Ives.
Sung by Alamire (ensemble)
Conductor: David Skinner
Album: Queen Katherine Parr & Songs of Reformation

[@randygrayson9015]

The Anglican Church is the most beautiful expression of the faith throughout Christendom!

[@kanal_katholon]

Good Joke

[@jamisonpainter2960]

I totally agree with you!

[@sharkaspree8148]

@@kanal_katholon Did you make it to this bit yet: From all blindness of heart; from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy; from envy, hatred, and malice; and from all want of charity, Good Lord, deliver us.

[@jamisonpainter2960]

This is amazing. I set it to play on endless loop and then just go about my household duties. You have no idea how much I love this. And I agree: from the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities is awesome. I was raised Anglican and Roman. I chose the Church of England Episcopal at age 19. I love the Episcopal Church USA. They do some dumb stuff, but anything that has pesky humans running it will have that. So, may God bless Presiding Bishop Michael, and our Bishop Betsy, and our Priest and Deacons. Amen!

[@randygrayson9015]

Dumb stuff indeed! But I like you have searched and the worship in the Episcopal Church is the richest.

[@jamisonpainter2960]

@@randygrayson9015 thank you very much indeed!

[@layne3210]

Haven't heard this litany for so long,very uplifting and beautifully chanted,,may God strengthen the Anglican church throughout the world riche in music, and spirituality.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@MarvinClarence]

‘Bishop Betsy’ - a woman?!

[@jamisonpainter2960]

@@MarvinClarence yes! And a delightful one at that!

[@charlesrae3793]

Wonderful! thanks for posting this.

[@PrinzOtto]

1662 was my favorite prayer book but I have to admit I got a tickle ... from the bishop of Rome and his detestable enormities. Seriously it might just be me but I feel we've lost something valuable by surrendering our liturgical English to contemporary English.

[@thomasharbold3915]

I agree... and not all of us have so surrendered! 🙂

[@SibleySteve]

I joined an American Episcopal 1979 rite 2 church but now I collect and treasure the 1928, 1662, and it was my privilege to go to Canterbury this Fall and acquire more prayer books from England. I am old now but having grown up in a King James Bible Baptist church, the Elizabethan tongue is my mother tongue.

[@severianmonk7394]

...from the woke Archbishop of Canterbury and his detestable enormities is covering up incidents of child abuse would be the contemporary version I suppose.

[@JackReacher-rj6pb]

4:55

[@aubreyk.5927]

That part of was deleted from the great litany centuries later

[@sameash3153]

I cringed

[@adamfernandes7323]

unfortunately so!

[@에큐메니칼-interfaith]

So interesting. So we can say that Archbishop Thomas had originally adopted the invocation for Our Lady in the Anglican litany during the early English Reformation.

[@s.albans2875]

@@에큐메니칼-interfaith Also in the first prayer book: “…command these our prayers and supplications, by the ministry of thy holy angels, to be brought up into thy holy tabernacle before the sight of thy divine Majesty”

[@briandelaney9710]

And Thomas Tallis was a Catholic

[@s.albans2875]

@@briandelaney9710 Yeah, but he was also keen on writing sacred music for the reformed liturgy and dedicated them to his King and Queen. Plus, this piece was written during Henry VIII's reign, and a good number of later Marian and Elizabethan Roman Catholics actually accepted and conformed the Henrician Church of England before more changes were made during Edward VI's reign.