One doesn’t have to go far these days to read in an Anglican service leaflet some variant of the words: “all baptized Christians may receive Holy Communion.” In some places there are additional notes like “all baptized and penitent…”, “all who believe the Body and Blood of Christ are truly present…”, "all who are permitted... Continue Reading →
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Well–I Think
I've been thinking for a while about resurrecting this blog, and for the last week or so article theses have been flying at me from, it seems, all directions. First, a little background. There is a Sunday morning adult education class at St George's, the CANA parish in Colorado Springs, entitled "The Kingdom." The theme... Continue Reading →
The Truth about Thanksgiving
It's nearing Thanksgiving again, and so it's time to remind everyone again of the Truth about Thanksgiving. For your convenience, you may read that article by clicking here.
Bones of what Kind?
My youngest daughter has recently taken to watching episodes of the TV show "Bones." This sentence sounds innocuous, but it doesn't really describe the phenomenon: she watches hour after hour. In a couple weeks she's worked her way through seasons one through three, borrowing each season's DVDs from her sister. Inevitably I have seen more... Continue Reading →
It is finished!
Preached Good Friday, A+D 2009 (11 April 2009) at St George’s Anglican Church (CANA/ACNA), Colorado Springs, for a "Pan-Anglican" service of Good Friday meditations on Jesus' words from the Cross. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. “It is finished.” For a minute, let's look at... Continue Reading →
Lent and Discipline
Here it is again--Happy Lent! Lent helps us enter the deepest and most important mysteries of what it truly means to be human—spirit and flesh fused together. Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent. Ashes remind us of our mortality. The ashes which are blessed and traced in the form of a cross on our... Continue Reading →
Priests at Our Lady of the Snows
Here's a picture that was late coming in due to technical difficulties, but it is at last here, so I'm posting it here now. These are the clergy of the Society of St Michael (SSM) who were present at the Anglican Church in America's general synod in October of 2008 at the national shrine of... Continue Reading →
The Miracle of Healing
Take a look at this young lady. This picture was taken on September first of this year. On September first she underwent emergency cardiovascular surgery for an enlarged heart and a tear in her aorta and had her aortic valve replaced. Her mother flew to Denver from Georgia to be with her. Her fiance sat with... Continue Reading →
Anglican Mass in Modern English – Beta
I have received numerous comments privately and on the Anglo-Catholic Central forum, for which I am very thankful. Please accept my gratitude, all who passed on your thoughts to me. As a result, please see the second draft of the Anglican Mass in Modern English. Again, I welcome your critique.
Anglican Mass in Modern English
After seeing the products of attempts to translate parts of the 1662 BCP and the U.S. 1928 BCP into modern English with varying degrees of success, I was about to give up, as have so many, the idea that liturgy could be written in modern English without sounding either pedestrian or trendy - or horrible. ... Continue Reading →
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