Received this comment on my YouTube posting of the Word of God's New Life album: I am so grateful that you put this up. I honestly wept when I listened to it. I was all of 10 years old when I first heard this. I make no comments about the excellence of the music (it's …
Book Review: Trevor Gervase Jalland’s The Church and the Papacy
One of Our Lord's commands that we have difficulty fulfilling is this one: But it is not only for them that I am interceding, but also for those who believe in me through their Message, That they all may be one--that as thou, Father, art in union with us--and so the world may believe that …
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Communion in the Hand, and Those Pesky Easterners
This, brought to my attention, from Cyril of Jerusalem's Catechetical Lectures, toward the very end: Approaching therefore, come not with thy wrists extended, or they fingers open; but make they left hand as if a throne for thy right, which is on the eve of receiving the King. And having hallowed thy palm, receive the …
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Why I Prefer Ad Orientem
Since the release of the ANCA 2019 Book of Common Prayer has open the floodgates for consideration of all kinds of controversial topics, it's time to consider one more: that of ad orientem, i.e., facing the altar during the Sacred Mysteries rather than the people. That's been the subject of a blog-to-blog volley between one …
Jimmy Buffett and the Miserable Offenders of the Book of Common Prayer
It's time to look at another bone that's been picked with the ANCA's 2019 Book of Common Prayer: the omission of the phrase "miserable offenders" to the General Confession for Morning and Evening Prayer. Let's start with the 2019 text: And now from the 1928 BCP: In addition to the modernization of the language, the …
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The “I” and the “We” of the Creed
The issuance of the ACNA 2019 Book of Common Prayer has brought back to the forefront many issues that have been "out there" for a long time. One of them is right up front in both the Apostles' and Nicene Creed: whether either or both should start with "I believe" or "We believe." This post …
The Cry of the Poor
Renunciation is Central to Christianity, But You’d Never Know It
I recently had an interesting back and forth with a guy I went to prep school with on "Renouncing Privilege."Â Evidently he and I have a different take on what that means, as evidenced by his comment: Many of the students were, and probably still are wealthy, still privileged. I would not try to make …
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The Unevangelical Take on the Sermon on the Mount
From The Bossuet Project: The Unevangelical Take on the Sermon on the Mount
The Call of God is More than an Emotional Rush
This interesting quote, from Daniel-Rops' Jesus in his Time: God does not seek to take men by surprise and the Church has always frowned on sudden vocations dictated solely by sentiment. It is only to the soul fortified by preparation and knowing its way and its strength that the spirit gives the supreme impulse. The …
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