Why chant?
Ask my family and they will roll their eyes with stories of their father and husband chanting even the most mundane of household conversations.  I’ve chanted “What are we having for dinner?” all the way down to “Will you please pass the salt?”  That being said (or chanted), this is not why chant is used at 11am. In antiquity, if you wanted to communicate something sacred, you either sung it or whispered it.  Think about the things you whisper.  Also think about the times when saying something …

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Last week I stumbled upon Lancelot Andrewes Press and their Orthodox (Big O) version of the Book of Common Prayer.  I’m a collector of prayer books (little p) and one that is according Orthodox Catholic usage looked interesting.  It came in the mail Thursday and I’m impressed.  The Mass is a combo of traditional Anglo-Catholic elements (asperges, last Gospel) and the 1928 anaphora.  There are a couple of additions in the canon but by and large it is very familiar to those celebrating according to Rite One at least once …