Relating to Anglicanism (Episcopalianism)
I came across an interesting entry in The Anglican Tradition: a Handbook of Sources edited by G. R. Evans that caught my eye this morning while I was reading. A little water is customarily added to the wine during the consecration of the elements (BCP, 404). But why? How has this come to us and what is it attempting to ...
I recently learned of the Anglican Society of the Holy Cross (SSC) and wanted to pass on this little historical tidbit to you. The following is quoted from the SSC Province of the Americas website:SSC stands for Societas Sanctae Crucis - the Society of the Holy Cross. ...
I woke early and made some coffee and enjoyed the remainder of the vow of silence that we took each night during the retreat. That time to pray, think and write was a treasure to be sure.
Overall, I think the retreat was a success for me. I wanted to meet as many from the diocese as possible. I think I ...
Friday was our first full day. I did not sleep well Thursday night so Friday was also a long day.
Positvely, I have been able to meet many people on the Commission for Ministry, which guides and governs much of the road towards holy orders.
This time has been eye opening for me as I begin to fathom the girth of diversity ...
Last evening we arrived at All Saints Retreat Center in Pottsboro, Texas. Shortly after I arrived Cn. Michelle approached us and asked, "Who's had the most recent traffic violation?" We all shot lightning like glances at each other as if to ask, "Is this the end of our pursuit of Holy Orders? Like this, really?"
I knew I'd likely be the ...
IntroductionWhat follows is a piece that I needed to write for myself and those around us who love us and pray for us. If you are hunting for polemic, I pray you will be greatly disappointed here. Rather, this is a personal reflection about personal reasons that my family and I joined the Episcopal Church. It is an attempt to ...
The Church has been the recipient of Christ's redemptive work in history and is itself part of that redemptive history. Every Sunday the story of Redemption is reenacted an proclaimed in Word and Sacrament. But did you know that every year the Story of Redemption is told through the Church Calendar.That's what the Christian seasons are all about. From Christmas ...
For those following the crisis in the Episcopal Church, the 2008 Global Anglican Futures Conference that concluded just last week has issued a Statement on the Global Anglican Future, outlining the direction they see as best for the Anglican Communion. The GAFCON members officially, launch the GAFCON movement as a fellowship of confessing Anglicans, publish the Jerusalem Declaration as the ...
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the blog of Fr Greg BrewerAnglican Relief and Development FundChurch of the Good SamaritanDr. Os Guinness on "The Gospel and Secularism": The whole modern world represents the greats opportunity for the Gospel since the apostles. It also represents the greatest challenge to the Gospel. Never underestimate the profound anti-Christian assumptions of secularism. Never have evangelicals had clearer views on the ...
17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.12And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee; humbly beseeching thee that we, and all others who ...
Chapters in Church History, ...Puritan intolerance would have imposed a religious system as unpalatable to the mass of the people as Anglicanism was to the few.1... it called forth the famous defense of the Church of England against Geneva, The Laws of Ecclesiastical polity by Richard Hooker, the most notable Anglican scholar of the sixteenth century. 2The evangelical concern [imparted ...
Our rites have tended to domesticate God within the images of Western culture projected into the heavenly places. Liturgy is most authentic when it is experienced as awestruck praise, the creature standing at the threshold of the Holy. ... Annie Dillard has summed up the point, saying, 'I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which ...
ChurchYear.net has put together what looks to be a very helpful reading plan for Lent, composed of readings from the Church Fathers. It is available for ...
Thomas Howard's Liturgy ...
Translation3 For this reason and concerning all things, I praise you, I bless you, I glorify you [1] through the eternal and heavenly high priest, Jesus Christ, your beloved son, [2] through whom be glory to you, with him and the Holy Spirit, both now and for the ages to come. Amen."[1] ?? ????, ?? ??????, ?? ?????? is a ...
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For that is what worship is: an act. It is not primarily an "experience," although we often hear people talking about having had "a beautiful worship experience." This is a fine sentiment, but partly misses the point. God commands us to worship him, and you cannot command an experience. Like love (which is also commanded), worship may be attended by ...
He could not feel that they were an island of life journeying through an abyss of death. He felt almost the opposite — that life was waiting outside the little iron egg-shell in which they rode, ready at any moment to break in, and that, if it killed them, it would kill them by excess of its vitality.11 Lewis, C. ...
