Click here to see and hear part of this liturgy being performed in the Convent of the Ascension, Jerusalem (use the back button of your browser to return).The Liturgy of the Presanctified may have been codified by Pope Gregory I in the sixth century. Click here to see and hear part of this liturgy being performed in the Convent of the Ascension, Jerusalem (use the back button of your browser to return).
In All Saints, we also prayed not only for the sovereign, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, but also for the Pope and the leaders of the Orthodox church. Obviously I had only a very vague idea of what all these things meant as a boy. Or perhaps even a Doctor of the Church does not really understand them any better than a child, for all his wit and learning. Or was Newton right ? He wrote: “ ’Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries and for that reason to like best what they understand least.”
