Christians who admire the non-violent protest methods of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King should consider this: Wonder what Mahatma Gandhi would have made of this. India's newest state, its 29th, came about with a local politician, Chandrasekhar Rao, using the Gandhian protest of "fasting unto death". It ended 11 days later with the central …
The Canon of the Mass: The Anaphora of Theodore of Mopsuestia
The form and structure of liturgies is something that churches which employ these in worship either take for granted or argue over intensely. But very few people understand how a) these came into being or b) how they should be revised or replaced in times of liturgical change. What kind of theology is embodied in …
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More on the Eucharist, Churches and Priests
The discussion continues with Fr. Greg. I'll put his comments on my last post in with my reply. First, I’m confused, how is my account of the Eucharist as sacrifice any different from what you seem to approve of in this post, or, for that matter, different from the standard RC (and yes, Orthodox: see …
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When Both Sides are Wrong About Afghanistan
Mark Perry's piece about the conflict between Stanley McChrystal and Karl Eikenberry over how to proceed in Afghanistan--a conflict little documented in our myopic press--makes for riveting reading: The State Department's frustration extended into the embassy in Kabul, where the US ambassador, Karl Eikenberry, was having his own problems with McChrystal. The appointment of Eikenberry …
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The Canon of the Mass: The Anaphora of St. Basil
The form and structure of liturgies is something that churches which employ these in worship either take for granted or argue over intensely. But very few people understand how a) these came into being or b) how they should be revised or replaced in times of liturgical change. What kind of theology is embodied in …
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Google Shouts It From the Housetops
In a non-Biblical way, that's what Google CEO Eric Schmidt is telling everyone: Eric Schmidt suggests you alter your scandalous behavior before you complain about his company invading your privacy. That's what the Google CEO told Maria Bartiromo during CNBC's big Google special last night, an extraordinary pronouncement for such a secretive guy. The generous …
When “Change We Can Believe In” is all we have left
Some people are just too sensitive: Pencils and notebooks resembling President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign ads have been sold in at least one Columbia school and other public schools, causing the company that distributes the materials to travel around the state yanking the supplies out of machines. “Don’t be mad at us,” said Greg Jones, …
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The Canon of the Mass: The Paleo-Hispanic Anaphora
The form and structure of liturgies is something that churches which employ these in worship either take for granted or argue over intensely. But very few people understand how a) these came into being or b) how they should be revised or replaced in times of liturgical change. What kind of theology is embodied in …
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Priesthood, Analogical and Formal: A Reply to Fr. Greg on the Sacrifice of the Mass
I was expecting an eventual response to my piece Why I Don’t Agree With the Concept of the “Sacrifice of the Mass” and received it from Fr. Greg. You can find it here. In his response, he's shifted the discussion from the purely theological to the ecclesiological, and that brings up many issues. But let …
Women Deacons: The View of “Canon of the Mass” Cipriano Vagaggini
I'm currently in the middle of a series on ancient (and a couple of modern) anaphorae, taken from Cipriano Vagaggini's The Canon of the Mass and Liturgical Reform. It seems that Dom Vagaggini wasn't afraid of controversial topics. Consider this, from a 2003 article on Catholic women deacons: The question of women deacons has been …
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