Hatch, Match and Dispatch: Occasional Services of the Anglican Church (Option 2: Thursdays)
Event description
Presented by Associate Professor Michael Horsburgh AM
Anglican prayer books contain services that are used only when the necessity arises: baptism, marriage and funeral services are the chief of these, but there are others. What are these services about? How did they come to their present form? Do they contain any surprises?
In conjunction with this seminar, there will be a display of the Parish Registers dating back to 1824 and a display of some archival material charting the history of some of these ‘occasional services’ at St James’.
Michael Horsburgh is a long-standing parishioner of St James. He preaches and serves the liturgical and educational life of the parish in many ways. A retired academic, he is a member of Australia’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal.