Every so often, I put up a post to point people to the wonderful Full Homely Divinity, which calls itself "a website for the Anglican at the Altar and especially for the Anglican in the pew."
And that it is. There is so much to read over there about Anglicanism and its history and approach. This page, in particular, is highly recommended; it contains links to articles such as "The Benedictine Spirit in Anglicanism," "The Monastic Quality of Anglicanism" (a PDF file), and "What is Anglican Theology?."
There is also a music page, here, from which you can access PDFs of "Gradual Psalms for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphanytide of Year B" and Gradual Psalms for Lent and Easter of Year B, for instance. And there's a review of the St. Dunstan's Plainsong Psalter on that page as well, at the bottom. An English translation of the Proclamation of Christmas is there, too, and you can listen to sound files on various pages about the various feasts.
Put Full Homely Divinity in your Bookmarks, and check it out from time to time; they are always updating it with new pages about liturgy and music and devotions and saints and customs and all sorts of things. It's wonderful!
EDIT: FYI, the Full Homely Divinity site no longer exists at the same URL. But you can find it at the Wayback Machine on Archive.org. You should go back before 2022, when the navigation for the site was still up - but you can choose any crawl version you prefer along the timeline.
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Does anyone know whether an archive of Full Homely Divinity exists? It was such an excellent resource, and sadly, all that now remains is a note that
"With gratitude for all who have found the site useful and to those who have contributed to the site in any way, Full Homely Divinity, a website for the Anglican at the Altar and the Anglican in the pew, has retired, along with its webmaster, who is confident that
All manner of things shall be well
When the tongues of flame are enfolded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one. (T.S. Eliot – “Little Gidding”)"
Doubtless "in a greater light and upon a farther shore" that is true, but here in this world, it is a resource which is sorely missed! :-( It would have been very nice, and extremely helpful, if the website had been archived, or perhaps transmuted into book form...
It does exist on the Wayback Machine at Internet Archive (archive.org): https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/fullhomelydivinity.org
Here's a capture from 2017 for instance, which seems to be complete: https://web.archive.org/web/20190311082355/http://fullhomelydivinity.org/
It would be good to have a complete, live copy somewhere. I'd do it myself, except I don't think it's a proper thing to do without asking, and I'm not sure who to ask. But I might look into it.
I agree it's a great resource.
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