York, Protestant Cathedral: "The Sixth Canticle"

[hautyboy]

This organ is certainly not YORK Minster!

[happywanderer34]

This IS the largest Gothic Cathedral in Europe

[ChrissysVideokids]

Wonderful hymn! Beautiful!

[RoyalWeddingRing]

Will it be King William III or King George VII when his time comes? Whatever happens she will be Queen Catherine!

[pipeup1]

@RoyalWeddingRing your forgetting that Prince Charles could choose to be George VII ;-)

[pipeup1]

At the risk of re-awakening this after three months (!) I chose my words carefully below. The C of E is not a Protestant denomination. It is the Reformed Catholic Church which is therefore both Catholic and Protestant. Notice the differance: its subtle yet profound!

[USAsoldier1955]

@pipeup1 The Protestant Catholic Faith is Orthodox Lutheran Christianity -- including the 1549 Book of Common Prayer, the Latin 39 Articles of 1571, as well as the Church Catechism of 1548 -- all being subordinate to the Word of God & Book of Concord. True Anglicanism is CONFESSIONALLY & HISTORICALLY LUTHERAN.

Sadly, what passes for modern "Anglicanism" is but heretical whoredom, in competition with Popery, pretending to be Christian.

[organeric]

Anglicans are not protestant...I take offense to making Yrk Minster a Protestant Cahtedral

[sfowatcher]

@organeric @foodie65 You don't share the "protestant" heresies, that I concede it to you. Yet, you split from the Roman Catholic Church and that made you "protestants" in the eyes of the Christian world.

[pipeup1]

@sfowatcher lets not go down the road of a historical/theological polemical debate on this please!!! The C of E is the reformed faith of Christ which evolved out of the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century but confesses itself a part of the universal Catholic Church of Christ but not under the ecclesiastical juristinction of the Bishop of Rome. So in effect it is both Catholic and Protestant, but is not a Protestant denomination. Hope that helps!? If not, ignore it!

[foodie65]

@pipeup1 I agree with you.  A perfect summary.

[foodie65]

You know, we don't in the in the Church of England in the UK refer to ourselves as "protestant". Anglicanism in not a protestant sect.

[pjdonagh]

@foodie65 In the Coronation oath the Archbishop asks the Queen/King "...Will You to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed religion established by law?" ......!!

[foodie65]

@pjdonagh True. But the ordination oath taken by clergy refers to the catholic church, and the catholic creeds. The position of the Church of England is correctly summarised by Pipe1 above (catholic and reformed). The point I was making in my post is that we in the Church of England don't refer to ourselves as protestants in the way that Lutherans, Baptists and methodists do.

[pjdonagh]

@foodie65 I both accept and respect the position as summarised by Pipe1 above up to the phrase "but is not a Protestant denomination". I fail to see how you can be Protestant yet not a protestant denomination and I feel sure that the Evangelical wing of the C of E would happily describe themselves as such. Conversely most Protestant denominations (including the 3 you list above) also accept at least the Nicene and Apostles creeds as articles of faith.

[foodie65]

@pjdonagh I don't think the evangelical wing of the Church of Englad are a good reference point. Many would not even describe themselves as Anglican!

[lexscar1]

This is not York Minster.refer to Psalm 8 and tell the difference

[DreamsofMajesty]

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