With Angels and Archangels: Sharing the Worship of Heaven. Bible, Poetry, Liturgy and Devotion in the Middle Ages, by John Blakesley Safeguarding_ Pages: 248

Pages: 248

This Beautiful Cross has a Chalice and Host design as a central symbol

The subject of this book by one of the Church of England's most respected Anglo-Catholic priests could hardly be more central

at work and in the church

Dimensions: 114mm x 171mm x 50mm

With Angels and Archangels: Sharing the Worship of Heaven. Bible, Poetry, Liturgy and Devotion in the Middle Ages, by John Blakesley Safeguarding_ Pages: 248Nowadays the inclusion of hymns, chants and sequences in Eucharistic worship is a well established and much loved feature of liturgical celebration that we tend to take for granted. How this came about is the subject of this present fascinating study in which John Blakesley guides us through the growth and development of chant, office hymns, sequences and tropes and their increased use in the Church of the Middle Ages. St Ambrose is credited with