Graham
@parishrecluse
Perquackey enthusiast. Formerly of tidewater Maryland, currently in Ohio. Anglican (TEC). Avoider of coffee hour. Interested in history, music, religion, politics, & where they intersect. ⚓️🏳️🌈
She’s on the left in the back in this photo from circa 1921-22, with her mother (my great-great-grandmother), and my grandmother and her younger sister in the front.
Prayed for all my friends in my phone this morning at St. James, Zanesville ⚓️
Burrard & Georgia Streets, Vancouver, B.C. Cyanotype print from an (enlarged, digitised) 120 negative that I shot on 10 October 2019. The main subject here is the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Opened in 1939, the Hotel Vancouver was one of the grand Canadian railway hotels.
The Complete (Incomplete) Fr. Denroche: Links to all his extant essays, and some final thoughts. Link in comments. ⚓️
The NYT’s morning briefing alert always makes me feel like I’m reading absurd, Dadaist haiku.
Father Denroche’s “Mr. Oldchurch” lectures come to an end with this piece from the April 1906 edition of The Easton Churchman, in which he continues his examination of Holy Communion. Link in comments. ⚓️
Father Denroche’s remarks on the Prayer of Humble Access. Link in comments. ⚓️
"Draw near with faith, and take this Holy Sacrament to your comfort." Fr. Denroche on the exhortation, confession, absolution, and comfortable words of the Communion service. Link in comments. ⚓
I just finished typing up the last of the three remaining “Mr. Oldchurch” lectures by Fr. Denroche. It’ll appear on the Substack on 10 July. I’ve grown quite attached to the old gentleman; it feels like coming to the end of an era. ⚓️
From December 1905, Father Denroche on the creed, the offertory, and the prayers in the Communion service. Link in comments. ⚓
With my Aunt Helen, whom I adored. My great-grandmother’s sister-in-law, she was really like a great-grandmother to me herself. She died 34 years ago today.
Father Denroche on the Holy Communion -- the first installment in an extended series. Link in comments. ⚓
and Rev. Intrepid Morse did the same in Steubenville the following year, but although he professed to be a Churchman of the Bishop Hobart school, he was very cautious in the innovation.” 3/3 (Photo of Morse, likely taken early 1860s.)
An interesting reference to Laud, over two hundred years after his death. From “Standing Against the Whirlwind: Evangelical Episcopalians in Nineteenth-Century America,” by Diana Hochstedt Butler (Oxford, 1995) ⚓️
On this date, 199 years ago, Rev. Intrepid Morse delivered a sermon at the laying of the cornerstone of the college and theological seminary at Gambier -- the building now known as "Old Kenyon," which currently serves as a dormitory.
My detour took me by the site of the former Zion Episcopal Church in Dresden, OH. I believe it closed around 1980; it appears to be a private home now.
After the service, I drove a circuitous route home, part of the way on Ohio route 666(!), which is narrow, twisty, and in one place runs under a train trestle with blind curves on either side, requiring one to sound ones horn before proceeding.
The parish celebrated its bicentennial in 2016. Former rectors include Philander Chase, Jr. (son of Bishop Chase) and the marvellously named Rev. Intrepid Morse (1791-1866), who is buried in our graveyard in Gambier.