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Make as many words as you can using the letters of one nine-letter word. Can you beat our score?
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The Black Rood of Scotland
From
The Rites of Durham
Edited by
John Davies
When the Reformers sold off the treasures of Durham Cathedral, they sold a priceless piece of Scottish history into oblivion.
The Black Rood of Scotland was an heirloom of the Scottish royal family, captured by the English at the Battle of Neville’s Cross in 1346 and added to the treasures of Durham Abbey. After the sixteenth-century Reformers ransacked the cathedral, the cross disappeared. A generation later, the Rites of Durham recalled some of the wonderful history of the vanished relic in a breathless tale, edited here by John Davies in 1671.
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David fought in the Battle of Neville’s Cross. He wore the Black Rood on his breast. He hoped God would help him win.
[If. Neck. Victory.]
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A short prayer for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross on September 14th/27th each year, from the Sarum Missal.
Holy Cross Day is the name given in the Book of Common
Prayer to the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, which
is kept on September 14th. In The Rites of Durham
(1593) it is still called Holy Rood Day, after the Anglo-Saxon
manner.
The feast goes back
to the fourth century, when Helen, dowager Empress of Constantinople,
declared that the true Cross of Christ had been found. The
relic was treasured up in a silver casket in the newly consecrated
Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (AD 335), and brought out
for display and veneration every year on this date.
See St Helen Finds the True Cross
in The Copy Book.
The prayer below is the Collect for this day according to
the Sarum Use, the liturgy of the English Church prior to
the Reformation in the sixteenth century.
Collect
O GOD, Who wast pleased to redeem mankind with the
precious Blood of Thy Only Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus
Christ, mercifully grant that they who draw nigh to adore the
life-giving Cross may be set free from the bonds of their sins.
Amen.
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A hymn for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, from the Sarum Missal.
A ‘sequence’, in the pre-Reformation liturgy of the English Church, was a hymn sung at the service of holy communion. It was designed to fill the period between the Gradual or Alleluia and the chanting of the Gospel; sadly, both the Reformers and the Popes cut them from the liturgy in the sixteenth century. This particular example, attributed to prolific composer Adam of St Victor (?-1146), of Paris, was sung at the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on September 14th each year.
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After the murder of King Duncan, Lady Macbeth is alarmed to see her husband losing his grip on reality.
Macbeth has stabbed Duncan, King of Scots, as he lay in his bed, hoping to give a little assistance to a witch’s prophecy that he would one day be King. Both Macbeth and his wife, who is the driving force behind the plot, are understandably jittery; but it soon becomes clear to the ever-competent Lady Macbeth that her husband is losing his grip.
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Macbeth murdered Duncan. He felt bad about it.
[Guilt. Prey. Terms.]
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Make as many words as you can using the letters of one nine-letter word. Can you beat our score?
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