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Letters to AO

EVERY WEEK WE PUBLISH a selection of letters we receive in response to something you've read at Anglicans Online. Stop by and have a look at what other AO readers are thinking.

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Letters from 19 to 31 December 2005

Like all letters to the editor everywhere, these letters are the opinions of the writers and not Anglicans Online. We publish letters that we think will be of interest to our readers, whether we agree with them or not. If you'd like to write a letter of your own, click here.

O wondrous mystery

[With regard to the AO letter on the O Antiphons] doing it the other way -- SARCORE -- could it have anything to with becoming flesh?

Peter Sanderson
Trinity Cathedral
Davenport, Iowa, USA
20 December 2005

A different story of O

Thank you for your essay on the O antiphons and the vocative O. Despite my firm belief that liturgy must grow and evolve if it is to remain alive, I am saddened to note the disappearance of O from many modern liturgies. Beginning a prayer with "God" rather than "O God" feels abrupt and peremptory, as if we were summoning a divine underling.

William Bippus
St. Paul's
Marinette, Wisconsin, USA
stpaulsmarinette@centurytel.net
20 December 2005

The old Heathen's Feasting Day

This is my Christmas letter to my parish, which begins with Robert Herrick's Carol. Someone suggested I send it along to you. Please use any or none of it as you wish. A blessed Christmas to you and thank you for the wonderful work you do at Anglicans Online.

(Ed: we liked Fr Wallace's Christmas Letter so much that we published it in our Essays section. Click here to read it.)

Edgar Wallace
St. Matthias
Minocqua, Wisconsin USA
edgarwallace@stmatthiasminocqua.org
23 December 2005


Earlier letters

We launched our 'Letters to AO' section on 11 May 2003. All of our letters are in our archives.

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