Nielsen’s Nook

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 ...

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But of old stones that cannot be deciphered. There is a time for the evening under starlight, A time for the evening under lamplight (The evening with the photograph album). Love is most nearly itself When here ...

Why do you spend moneydoes not satisfyeat what is gooddelight yourselves in rich food, so that you may liveBlessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be satisfiedCome, buy wine and milk without money and without pricethat which does not satisfy.thirst for righteousness will be satisfiedseek the Lord while he may be found.Whydo you spend your ...

It occured to me this morning, while observing fellow parishoners receiving Holy Communion, that there seemed to be a distinct impression from the Reformation in the distribution of the elements. It is my understanding that in the period prior to the Reformation churches celebrated the Eucharist generally once a year and when it was celebrated laity received only the bread, ...

For those who enjoy context, our scripture readings this morning at St. John's were Acts 1:1-14; Psalm 47; 1 Peter 4:12-19; and John 17:1-11. ]now HT: St. John's Episcopal ...

The Role of the Eucharist in the Sanctification of the Christian Spiritual Formation and the Lord’s Supper: Remembering, Receiving, SharingIt is certainly true that we get no new thing in the Sacrament; we get no other thing in the Sacrament, than we get in the Word. For what more would you ask that really to receive the Son of ...