{"id":4537,"date":"2015-12-28T08:15:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T14:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2015-12-28T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:35:03","slug":"childermas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/childermas-4537.htm","title":{"rendered":"Childermas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Childermas\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Herod then with fear was filled;<\/em>
\n‘A prince’, he said, ‘in Jewry!’<\/em>
\nAll the little boys he killed<\/em>
\nat Bethl’em in his fury.<\/em><\/p>\n

(Sung: Solo<\/a>, Choir<\/a>, Children<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Today is Childermas, Children\u2019s Mass, the Feast of the Holy Innocents.<\/p>\n

In the Middle Ages, both St. Nicholas\u2019 Day and today were the times when Boy Bishops were installed.<\/p>\n

\"Boy<\/a><\/p>\n

A boy, usually a cathedral chorister, was chosen and vested in\u00a0episcopal regalia. At Vespers, when the verse deposuit potentes de sede<\/em> (He hath cast down the mighty from their thrones) was sung, the bishop left his throne, and while the verse et exaltavit humiles<\/em> (and He hath exalted the lowly) was being sung, the Boy Bishop sat in the throne. He gave a blessing and preached a sermon.<\/p>\n

The boys celebrated afterwards, and sometimes things got out of hand, and both the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation largely suppressed the Boy Bishops.\"Boy<\/a><\/p>\n

The custom has been revived in some Anglican cathedrals and parishes.<\/p>\n

Here is one of the prayers used in the ceremony:<\/p>\n

O Almighty God, who out of the mouths of babes and infants art pleased to perfect praise: Grant this thy son grace, that he may praise thee with a child-like heart.\u00a0 Keep him, O Lord, from wandering thoughts and all irreverence, and from whatsoever other sin may most easily beset him; and make us all to glorify thy holy Name, through Jesus Christ our Lord.\u00a0Amen.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Boy<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Boy<\/a><\/p>\n


\n<\/a>\"Boy<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Boy<\/a><\/p>\n

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Herod then with fear was filled; ‘A prince’, he said, ‘in Jewry!’ All the little boys he killed at Bethl’em in his fury. (Sung: Solo, Choir, Children) Today is Childermas, Children\u2019s Mass, the Feast of the Holy Innocents. In the Middle Ages, both St. Nicholas\u2019 Day and today were the times when Boy Bishops were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,242],"tags":[1220,1218,1219],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglicans","category-liturgy","tag-boy-bishop","tag-childermas","tag-holy-innocents","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}