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  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Jahaza,

    Sorry.... are you being tongue in cheek, or is this a kind of liturgical event of which I have never heard?
  • ContinuousbassContinuousbass
    Posts: 357
    Ewtn has an interesting article on Te Deum
    http://www.ewtn.com/library/Liturgy/zlitur323.htm
    Finally, the Te Deum is traditionally sung on Dec. 31 in thanksgiving for the year about to end. The Church grants a plenary indulgence to those who participate in public recitation of the Te Deum on this day.
  • a_f_hawkins
    Posts: 3,471
    Two accounts of Te Deum being sung after military victory -
    The first fictionalised of an English victory over the French at Agincourt/Azincourt
    Shakespeare: Henry V:
    K. Henry -
    Do we all holy rites:
    Let there be sung Non nobis, and Te Deum.
    The dead with charity enclosed in clay,
    We'll then to Calais; and to England then;
    Where ne'er from France arriv'd more happy men [Exeunt.

    The second historical account of a victory of the French and English in alliance, triumphing over the Spanish in Aug 1719 :-
    The letter which the King of France wrote to Card. de Noailles, Archbp. of Paris, to cause the Te Deum to be sung for the Reduction of the Town and Castle of St. Sebastian is as follows. ...

    As an independaent rite the 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia has this entry, rubrics just over half way down. And FWIW there is this
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,417
    Chris - I'm surprised at your surprise!
    Yes, there is a Te Deum service, so to speak.

    The priest blesses incense and places it into the thurible(s). Te Deum is then sung as one or more thuriblers stand before or at either ends of the altar emitting great quantities of smoke thereto (if they are Anglican they will likely be doing 'Queen Anne's' with their thuribles - which means swinging them high in full circles). This goes on until Te Deum is finished and is followed, then, by about six or eight ritual versicles and responses, which are then followed by a collect which includes mention of the reason for offering the Te Deum - great victories, birth of a prince, coronations, election to episcopacy or papacy, deliverance from plague, recovery from illness, important anniversaries, thanksgiving for any of an endless number of blessings.

    At Walsingham we follow high mass with a solemn Te Deum on our patronal feast, on the anniversary of the Ordinariate, and other important observances in our history. In our very earliest days we offered a solemn Te Deum after mass at every new child birth.
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