Last summer, our former colleague Father Matthew Mead engaged me in a conversation about the decision made for the 1979 Prayer Book to use in three places the personal and sacred name for the God of the Hebrews, twice in the psalms and once in the Song of Moses,[1] a canticle appointed to be sung at the Great Vigil of Easter after we have heard the story of Israel’s deliverance at the Red Sea.[2]
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