Speaking of the Ordinariate: Part 2 - Digestives

David Low (1928) Chesterton

More Ordinariate Speak (accompanied by an unnecessary pronunciation guide).

Issue: ISS-syoo
Mystery: MISS-tree
Temptation: tem(p)-TAYS-see-on or tem(p)-TEH-see-on

Digestives for High Tea
Slices of Englishness for Casual Conversation

Byrd: BURD

William Byrd (c.1539/40 or 1543 – 1623), was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard (the so-called Virginalist school), and consort music. Although he produced sacred music for Anglican services, sometime during the 1570s he became a Roman Catholic and wrote Catholic sacred music later in his life.

Chesterton: CHESS-ter-ton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) is a writer like none other. As a journalist, he wrote thousands of essays for the London newspapers. But he also wrote a hundred books: novels, poetry, plays, literary criticism, history, economic theory, philosophy, and theology. And detective stories. He wrote on every conceivable subject, but his vast output is matched only by the consistency and clarity of his thought, his uncanny ability to tie everything together. In the heart of nearly every paragraph lies a jaw-dropping aphorism or sparkling paradox that leaves readers shaking their heads in wonder. https://www.chesterton.org/

Dodsworth: DODS-werth

William Dodsworth (1798 – 1861). Church of England cleric, Tractarian, and later a Roman Catholic writer.

• A few Comments on Dr. Pusey's Letter to the Bishop of London, London (three editions), 1851.
• Further Comments on Dr. Pusey's renewed Explanation, London 1851.
• Popular Objections to Catholic Faith and Practice considered, London 1858.

Hilda: HILL-da

Hilda of Whitby or Hild of Whitby (c. 614 – 680) is a Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby. An important figure in the Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England, she was abbess at several monasteries and recognised for the wisdom that drew kings to her for advice. [Wikipedia]

Howells: HOW-uhls

Herbert Norman Howells (1892 – 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.

Hymnus Paradisi is consider his masterpiece. 

Howells was Acting Organist at St John's College, Cambridge during the Second World War and there he began to take an interest in writing music for the church. The first fruits of this were the much loved Canticles for the King's College, Cambridge. This aspect of his career blossomed after the war and the body of work that he produced, anthems, motets and services, including over 20 settings of the Evensong Canticles, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. https://www.herberthowellssociety.com/hnh---a-biography.html

Lewis: LOU-iss or LEW-iss

Clive Staple Lewis (C.S. Lewis: 1898 – 1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement." https://www.cslewis.com/us/about-cs-lewis/

Keble: KEE-ble

John Keble (1792 – 1866). English churchman and poet; one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Keble College, Oxford, is named after him. http://anglicanhistory.org/keble/

Merbecke: MAR-bek

In the first half of the 19th century, the Oxford Movement inspired renewed interest in liturgical music within the Church of England. John Jebb first drew attention to Merbecke's Prayer Book settings in 1841. In 1843, William Dyce published plainsong music for all the Anglican services, which included nearly all of Merbecke's settings, adapted for the 1662 edition of the Book of Common Prayer then in use. During the latter half of the 19th century, many different editions of Merbecke's settings were published, especially for the Communion service, with arrangements by noted musicians such as Sir John Stainer, Charles Villiers Stanford and Basil Harwood, Merbecke's Communion setting was very widely sung by choirs and congregations throughout the Anglican Communion(.)

Pugin: PEW-jin

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812 – 1852). English architect, designer, artist and critic who led the Gothic Revival. Read: True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture (1841).

Pusey: PEW-zee

Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800 – 1882). English churchman. For more than fifty years he was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. A main promoter of the Oxford Movement.

Rossetti" Roh-ZEH(t)-tee

Born into an intellectually gifted family, Christina Rossetti is recognized as one of the finest poets of the Victorian era. Rossetti was the author of many books of poetry, including Goblin Market and other Poems (1862), The Prince’s Progress (1866), A Pageant (1881), and The Face of the Deep (1882).

Caught up in the Tractarian or Oxford Movement when it reached London in the 1840s, the Rossettis shifted from an Evangelical to an Anglo-Catholic orientation, and this outlook influenced virtually all of Christina Rossetti’s poetry. She was also influenced by the poetics of the Oxford Movement, as is documented in the annotations and illustrations she added to her copy of John Keble’s The Christian Year (1827) and in her reading of poetry by Isaac Williams and John Henry Newman. For more than twenty years, beginning in 1843, she worshiped at Christ Church, Albany Street, where services were influenced by the innovations emanating from Oxford. [Source]

In the Bleak Midwinter, a Christmas carol, was based on Rossetti's poem. The first setting of the poem by Gustav Holst was published in The English Hymnal (1906).

In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan;
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.

Tolkien: TOLL-keen

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892 – 1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955)(.)

https://www.tolkiensociety.org/author/biography/

Willan: Wih-lun

James Healey Willan (1880 – 1968), an Anglo-Canadian organist and composer of more than 800 works. https://healeywillan.com/