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...late Bishop of Durham, the Rt. Rev. Henley Henson, once acknowledged that "under the description of 'the Anglican Communion,' there are gathered two mutually contradictory conceptions of Christianity." The Anglican Benedictine monks of Nashdom Abbey use the Roman missal and monastic breviary rather than the Book of Common Prayer, and countless Roman Catholic tourists have queued up before the confessionals in Manhattan's St. Mary the Virgin Church only to discover belatedly that they were not in one of Cardinal Spellman's parishes. The ceremony-conscious Anglo-Catholics seem oddly yoked in brotherhood with low-church...
...dysentery, he returned, "leaving a large part of my insides in Africa," to face what seemed bound to be like a life of invalidism. He decided to devote his life to studying the origins of the Christian Church. In 1940 he became a monk, is now prior of Nashdom Abbey in Buckinghamshire. His 764-page Shape of the Liturgy won him an international reputation...
...lecture on mediaeval music by Dom Anselm Hughes, Prior of Nashdom Abbey, England, will be given in Paine Hall at 8:30 o'clock, November 8. The lecture will deal with John Dunstable, leader of 15th Century composition. The public will be admitted without charge...
...Music of Henry VI and His Circle" is the subject of a lecture which Dom Ansolm Hughes, Secretary-Treasurer of the Plainsong and Mediaeval Society, Nashdom Abbey, England, will deliver under the auspices of the Division of Music tonight...
...Illustrated with new records, especially made by the Nashdom Abbey Singers, of music which, in some cases, has not been heard for close on 500 years," the lecture will take up the importance of the period 1440-1460 in English musical history, analyze its music, mention its composers, and discuss their problems...