Choral Mattins in the Anglican Tradition

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lucky this is from 2019 with the violent coughing heard at the start

Absolutely gorgeous. We are so lucky to have you in the Catholic Church !

The quality of this film is excellent. Include captions.

Also, I could not find this channel when I searched "Anglican Use".

Good to hear (and see) the Benedictus. Glorious

Our video of Choral Mattins is now fully subtitled!

Great Litany

Very nice. Does the choir not normally wear vestments?

The presider is Fr. Lee Kenyon the first ordained in Canada (along with Fr. John Wright) for Roman Catholic ministry under Anglicanorum Cortibus. A Brit married to an American living on Vancouver Island who started Roman Catholic ministry here in Calgary. He is a blessing, though in my rebellious Protestant days I would have told he was Hellbound. I’m ashamed of my old feelings towards him, Fr. Wright, and Fr. Gibson.

It seems that all the different rites of the Roman Catholic church have rights, except for those who want the old Latin rite, treated like lepers

I don't recall reading the word mattins in the BCP.

Greetings from the small but growing Ordinariate Community of St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA!

Stanford in Bflat

Only during Holy Week you find morning services of this calibre in Roman-rite churches (Tenebrae = Matins + Lauds). Wonderful prayers, music, readings. Many thanks!

I've never actually gotten to witness choral matins, due to it being so rare. Morning prayer, if a church even offers it these days, is usually all spoken, or with only a few moments of simple chanting.

Not quite what most English cathedral Mattins would be like. (Incense? Goos heavens!) And certainly not the tune we would usually sing to At the Name of Jesus, but nicely done nonetheless!

I think that should look like every Mass in ordinary form of roman rite

What was the hymn sung at the beginning before the Matins began?

Well that was interesting! I'm Anglican, and a musician, and I have never seen Matins with 2 ts!
You should all be commended for your impressive musical efforts. However, the Psalms were sung too fast and too loud. Some distinction between singing forces--Cantoris/Decani would have been nice and the organ could have been far more subtle. The Psalms are old but Anglican Chant is Victorian romantic and must be treated as such. Remember that the accompaniment, in a cathedral or Oxbridge chapel, would be played by a young and overly enthusiastic organ scholar who wants desperately to impress his boss with his developing Anglican chant accompaniment style. A descant on a warbling little flute would have been nice and not once did I hear Full Swell, Box closed and 32' flue rumbling on the bottom! By the way, with multiple Psalms (Plainsong or Anglican Chant) Gloria Patri is only sung at the end of the final Psalm (unless you're King's College and make everyone stand for the whole ordeal!) otherwise the poor congregation would be bobbing up and down!
Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, you have been very naughty! Te Deum by Vaughan Williams and Benedictus by Stanford may be impressive but it is just NOT done! Anglican composers wrote "Music for the Office of Holy Communion, and Morning Service, and Evening Service" for a reason and they should always be sung as a whole. One does not mix "apples and oranges!" Te Deum and Benedictus, Stanford in C would have been nice. However Te Deum and Benedictus Stanford in Bb would have been even better! If you ever do Evensong in the future now sing it correctly!
Thanks for the Willan anthem. I'm now 71 and it took until the harmonised Plainsong in the middle for me to think, "I know that" and to remember I sang the thing in the Gardens in 1963!
Congratulations on a job well done!

It's nice to know that there are people singing the Vaughan Williams tune to "At the Name of Jesus". It's a fine but neglected tune. The bouncy tune many sing in the UK is too lighthearted for my liking.