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"... she led Alexandria’s Platonic school, embracing Neoplatonism"
It really takes a very high commitment to unadulterated nonsense to describe a 4th century AD Neoplatonist thinker as a 'secular voice'.
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2nd July cannot pass without remembering the 20th Maine.
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HM the King arriving for Matins this morning in St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham. Thankful for the example he sets, particularly at this time.
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"As King he is now the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, but Charles has long been a regular Sunday worshipper, quietly visiting a local church wherever he is in the country."
Wonderful. GSTK.
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I really do not understand the desire to give All Hallow's Eve entirely over to a secular culture and instead have 'light parties' which suggest the strange, the dark, and the spooky as somehow incompatible with Christianity
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I think it would be difficult to find a better expression of traditional Toryism than this. The day after losing the Conservative whip and facing an uncertain future,
@RoryStewartUK
writes: "Yesterday, I was worrying about my cherry trees ..."
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It is worth noting how liturgical phrases often dismissed as antiquated, during apparently calmer times when Progress seemed assured, have a continued significance and resonance.
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It is Yale Apostasy Day. OTD in 1722, 7 Congregationalist ministers - including Timothy Cutler, rector of Yale - scandalised Puritan New England by declaring their belief in episcopacy as apostolic and their desire to receive orders in the Church of England.
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"In the Conservative notion, power comes from the bottom up" - Jacob Rees Mogg at yesterday's NatCon conference, sounding like a Jacobin.
Where historic Toryism believes power derives from:
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Charles I upheld the BCP against the Puritans.
Charles II restored the BCP after "the late unhappy confusions".
Charles III recalls us to the BCP, "accepted and approved by all sober, peaceable, and truly conscientious Sons [and Daughters] of the Church of England".
We are delighted to announce that a communication from Buckingham Palace has confirmed that His Majesty the King intends to continue his Patronage of The Prayer Book Society. His Majesty has been an enthusiastic and dedicated supporter of the PBS for a number of years, and we are
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Remembering those who died in the service of the Crown at Lexington and Concord, Province of Massachusetts Bay, 19th April 1775 and the days following.
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You would have to be wildly ignorant of the conservative tradition to propose that the Archbishop of Canterbury should be 'democratically elected'.
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"back to Rome"?
Canterbury Cathedral was never, at any stage in its history, under the 'immediate, ordinary, and universal jurisdiction' of the Bishop of Rome. Nor was the Cathedral for the vast majority of its history ever governed apart from the Crown.
At this point, despite being a baptised Anglican, I think you should give the buildings back to Rome. You are unfit custodians
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Choir dress, the Psalm from the BCP, Anglican chant, the cautious commendation of the departed from the Proposed Book 1928, the AV, the Prayer Book collect for the burial of the dead, Bairstow, the Prayer Book collect of Trinity IV: the quiet modesty of Prayer Book Anglicanism.
⚫️ A Service for the reception of Her Majesty The Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall:
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It is heartening to see
#NotMyPrimeMinister
trending. Such constitutional conservatism and traditionalism is to be applauded. Whoever holds the office, of course, is the Crown's Prime Minister.
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Old Narragansett Church (Old St. Paul's), Wickford, Rhode Island, believed to be the oldest Episcopal church in New England. Built in 1707.
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Part of an occasional series, 'Why 18th century Anglican parish churches are A Very Good Thing'.
Here, Aquia Episcopal Church (1757), Stafford, Virginia: plain glass, Commandment boards, box pews directed to triple-decker pulpit, and the quiet modesty of God's Board.
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The first Charles died in defence of the Church of England.
The second Charles restored the Church of England.
The third Charles begins his reign by reaffirming, before a secular age, his commitment to the role of Supreme Governor:
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A Sunday morning without duty, so I slipped into the back pew of a nearby rural parish church. Traditional low church CofI Prayer Book liturgy (surplice and tippet, North End), Rogationtide prayers for local farmers, a solid sermon on the epistle in the lectionary. A delight.
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What a wonderful Christmas address from His Majesty the King: Jesus, the Nativity, God's providence, prayer, generous interfaith relationships, a civilisation of love.
GSTK.
“At a time of increasingly tragic conflict around the World, I pray that we can also do all in our power to protect each other. ”
📺 Today, in his annual Christmas Broadcast, His Majesty has spoken of compassion for others. Watch the broadcast in full on YouTube:
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Amidst moral cowardice from some public institutions, and the vile, blatant anti-Semitism of the 'death to Israel' mob and its fellow-travellers, we can be thankful for the King's moral leadership in assuring the Jewish communities in the UK of solidarity and support.
BREAKING: The King has received Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis for a private audience at Buckingham Palace.
It's thought His Majesty expressed his deep care and concern for the Jewish community in the UK who are suffering grief, fear and anguish. (1/2)
📸PA
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"... the Church of England became Protestant at the Reformation, in order that she might be more truly and purely Catholic"
Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln 1869-85, firmly in the Old High tradition.
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I'm wondering who it is who actually 'romanticizes' the daily office? The whole point of the daily office - especially 1662 - is that it is not romantic at all, but routine work, often very ordinary. It is nourishing, not romantic. Wednesday family dinner not candlelit meal for 2
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One of the joys of late Advent is
@malcolmguite
's series of poetic meditations on the great antiphons, prayerfully drawing out meanings, connections, images, and desires.
"O founding, unfound Wisdom, finding me": a beautiful reflection of how Advent is inherent to Holy Wisdom.
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A wonderful picture shared by
@prayerbook_soc
on Facebook of the ministration of Baptism to such as are of Riper Years. The Sacrament was administered in the context of Matins, at the Church of St. Cross, Winchester.
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Shared by a friend on Facebook, Holy Communion at the Church of Ireland General Synod, 1965. A good representation of what F.R. Bolton described as "the Caroline Churchmanship" of Irish Anglicanism, "the classical Anglican tradition handed down to us from Caroline times".
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A brave Russian Orthodox priest, Father Ioann Burdin, arrested for sermon challenging the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Alternatively, the tweet below is what privilege looks like. The sort of privilege which resents how people voted. The sort of privilege that is so removed from those who voted for this government that it cannot understand - or, it seems, even respect - their concerns.
This is what privilege looks like. A Parliament laughing, smiling and role playing, over who gets to ruin a nation. A government so removed from the very people, who will suffer at the hands of their policies. Who will never be impacted by their own deeds.
#WithdrawalAgreement
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A particularly moving photo from the BBC review of global Easter Day celebrations: remembering the Church of Pakistan and all Christians in that country, giving thanks for brave and faithful witness to the Resurrection.
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Social media really is not the place to work out your obsessive fascination with your ex ...
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I'm very thankful that I live in a polity in which I - a politically engaged citizen - cannot name the judges in the highest court of the land; in which their appointments are barely mentioned in the media; and in which ideological conflicts do not arise over appointments.
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"... visitors’ attendance at Christmas has little to do with a desire for Jesus, and much more to do with tradition and habit" - as if tradition and habit are Very Bad Things and not absolutely integral to any meaningful spiritual discipline.
Christmas is the time of year when people who never usually attend a Sunday service suddenly stream through the doors. But how can we ensure that at least some of them come back again?
Derek Hughes offers his top tips:
@LifeChurchMcr
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An Anglicanism which cannot weave together Whitsun and the Jubilee is an Anglicanism determined to retreat into the irrelevance of a sectarian enclave, incapable of discerning and articulating the relationship between national life & the Christian faith.
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You know All Hallows' Eve is close when going out into a dark evening and an autumnal chill after Choral Evensong.
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Her Majesty yet again demonstrates why she is the most effective witness to the Christian Faith in the UK today. A gentle yet compelling presentation of how Christianity can graciously shape our common life.
Watch: The Queen's Christmas Broadcast 2019.
#QueensSpeech
#QueensChristmasBroadcast
#HappyChristmas
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This is William Laud.
William Laud knows that
#ChristmasIsOverNow
is wrong because there are
#TwelveDaysOfChristmas
Be like William Laud.
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Deep Winter at The Middle Church, in the heart of Jeremy Taylor country, shrouded in freezing fog.
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An absolute scandal that today's Sunday Times '25 best war films' does not include this classic.
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That very many of the opinions described as "least Protestant" are historically Protestant: perpetual virgnity BVM; true feeding on Christ in Eucharist; baptismal regeneration; ordained ministry divinely instituted; visible church as means of salvation; necessity of good works.
To all my Protestant brothers and sisters, what is your least Protestant opinion?
(Could be theological, ecclesiological or moral.)
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The Queen is under medical supervision at Balmoral after doctors became concerned for her health, says Buckingham Palace
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I thought the Rest is History series on Luther started off well but, listening to the 3rd episode, we are told Luther thought Christianity was 'the individual & the Bible, nothing else needed'. This is nonsense. Luther was absolutely explicit on the need for Church & sacraments:
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Dear Mary: how can I stop embarrassing eulogies being read at my funeral?
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"The Church of England was more glorious than at any time before ... when a King died in the profession of her Religion, and thousands of Priests ... suffered the spoiling of their goods rather than they would forsake one Article of so excellent a Religion"
Jeremy Taylor
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After expressing some caution yesterday about 'Reformation Day', it is appropriate today to celebrate one of the most potent common practices shared by the churches of the magisterial Reformation: restoration of the cup to the laity.
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A good example of the importance of non-eucharistic liturgies and of the place of Compline.
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Kudos to the Far Left. They have me - committed royalist, devotee of the Royal Martyr, supporter of Laud - absolutely committed to retaining the statue of Cromwell.
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Today we give thanks for the 'Yale Apostasy'. OTD in 1722, 7 Congregationalist ministers shocked Puritan New England by declaring to the Yale trustees that episcopacy was apostolic & that some of their number would seek ordination in the Church of England.
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One of the gifts that the monarchy and Royal Family bring to our national life is that the cycle of birth & christenings, marriages, deaths and funerals are at the centre of our common life, rather than partisanship and the pursuit of power. 1/3
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Untold millions of Soviet and Chinese citizens died under those tyrants... but, no, Elizabeth I was worse.
Howl. At. The. Moon.
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Baptism as "a response to God's love" suggests that the Sacrament is a work of ours rather than a means of grace. Holy Baptism is a Sacrament in which God graciously gives, not an act in which we give.
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Rather than interpreting The Lord's Prayer being offered in Urdu on Easter Day in Canterbury Cathedral as a significant expression of solidarity with the brave, harassed Christians of Pakistan, we are to condemn it as 'woke' ...
🔴 Lord’s Prayer read in Urdu and Swahili during Canterbury Cathedral Easter service
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Her Majesty does it again - in a political culture shaped by the norms of 'we don't do God', the Queen confesses Jesus Christ in the public square
#QueensSpeech
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Me: "We see Jesus in the bread and wine at Holy Communion".
My 9yr old: "No... He *is* the bread and wine".
Out of the mouths of babes...
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One of the interesting features of Cranmer's very fine collect and proper preface for Christmas is that both mention the BVM. There is some significance to this, as the BVM had no place in the Sarum collects and prefaces for Christmas Day. Cranmer made both more Marian ...
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A happy Saint George's Day 🏴 to friends in England.
"The Church of England is the Church of *somewhere*. It does not invoke some paradisal nowhere" - Sir Roger Scruton.
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I see in certain parts of Anglican clerical Twitter we are back again on how difficult it is to pray the Office morning (25 mins) and evening (20 mins) if we are parents.
It's not.
Get up earlier and spend less time on social media.
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Every time
an Anglican says
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self-identify
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loses
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wings,
an Angel
giggles
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and the Caroline Divines
in the heavenly city
wonder
at the odd notion
that Anglicans
aren't
Protestants
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Today is O Sapientia in the 1662 Kalendar, marking the days of deep Advent, recalling us to pray with the prophets of Israel, in the hope of Adonai mightily and sweetly ordering all things through the seed of David.
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Not mentioned is that this is entirely contrary to Prayer Book and Articles, to the Declaration of Assent, and to the vows of ordination (to minister the Sacraments "as this Church hath ... received the same"). And full immersion is a detail of zero significance in the Sacrament.
Priest baptises grown-up sons by full immersion after they come to faith
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Tattoos - not my cup of tea: see also, underlining books and an untidy desk.
Much more important than my personal tastes, however - I was brought up not to pass comment on the appearance of others.
It is rude and gauche, not good manners, can be cruel, and is ungenerous.
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It is, I think, the most beautiful line in the Prayer Book Holy Communion, echoing the exhortations: "the most comfortable Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ ... to our great and endless comfort". Such is the homely, tender, gracious comfort of the Prayer Book rite.
Draw near with faith, and take this holy Sacrament to your comfort; and make your humble confession to Almighty God, meekly kneeling upon your knees.
📷Colin Howey
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I see one of the chief nuts and wack jobs was feeling a tad envious today.
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One of the deep joys of the 1662 lectionary is how it proclaims all 4 Passion narratives during this week. Even where not used for public liturgy, privately reading these accounts daily provides a wonderful devotion for Holy Week, immersing us in the mystery of the Cross.
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"What these earlier writers of the Eastern spiritual tradition are talking about is regularly grounded in the idea that our habitual mental and spiritual condition is one in which we quite simply don't see clearly ... We don't know things as we ought to know them; we don't 1/3
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As it should be on a warm Sunday evening in Summer: said Evensong, with a thoughtful sermon from a friend, decent hymns, and the General Thanksgiving in a small country church.
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Rowan Williams on the dangers of what he terms the "hyper-activist state". Church Times 18th September 2020.
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"... in my opinion, the service well performed in a neat, elegant, simple parish-church, comes much nearer the beauty of holiness, than anything to be seen either at York or Canterbury."
Thomas Gilpin, parson, writing in 1800.
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On a Protestant convert to Orthodoxy:
"[he] writes little brochures (among other things) about Kallistos Ware, accusing him of not being sufficiently Orthodox. I ask myself: why and how could it happen? Why is it that the closer he came into contact with Orthodoxy, the 1/2
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Part of the reason for regularly praying the Psalter is precisely to be made uncomfortable, confronted with realities and truths I routinely seek to avoid about myself, the Church, and the world. And this is revealed through God's judgement of myself, the Church, and the world.
Question for Anglicans (sorry everyone else!): Do you ever feel deeply uncomfortable with the presence of Psalmody in liturgy? Some are distinctly old covenant and yet we say them almost as if current. Obviously imprecatory psalms like 137 but also 90 portrays an angry God!
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The 30th day of the month at Evensong. No matter how the month has gone, no matter what disappointments, trials, or failures, the month - every month - ends with praise.
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Deeply angered after a family member made considerable effort to attend a CofE service today only to be confronted with no liturgical text for the laity, an utterly confused Eucharist, silly cringe-worthy informality, and very poor preaching. 1/2
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This plain font, in a simple, little chapel of ease, reminds us of an important aspect of Pusey's ministry. He read prayers & administered the Sacraments in a manner & context which would have been very familiar to pre-1833 CofE folk. He celebrated at the north end until 1871.
The font in the small, simple Chapel of Ease in Thornton le Beans, N. Yorkshire is plain, but it's believed to have been given by Dr Edward Pusey — cleric, preacher, professor and a leading figure in the Oxford Movement.
Pusey's commemoration day is tomorrow.
#FontsOnFriday
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A statement from Buckingham Palace:
📷 Samir Hussein
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"The holy Virgin...the holy mother": Calvin.
"I esteem immensely the Mother of God, the ever chaste, immaculate Virgin Mary": Zwingli.
"This most noble & most virtuous Lady": Homilies.
Stereotypes of Protestant teaching on BVM are as unhelpful as stereotypes of RC teaching.
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"I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love" - Traherne, 'Centuries of Meditations', The First Century, 4.
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"So Protestants of all sorts maintain a true and Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist" - Laud, reviewing the eucharistic teaching of Lutherans, Calvinists, and the Church of England.
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Utter drivel and absurd nonsense from a bishop-elect in the Anglican Church of Canada. This really is pathetic.
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"... noble, but bare and quiet, without the lofty aspiration of the French Gothic or the devotional intimacy of an Italian chapel ... the dignity of an architecture that speaks for itself and largely without the benefit of images" - Scruton on the Anglican parish church.
We are delighted to let you know that St Peulan's in Llanbeulan, Anglesey has reopened to visitors after eight months' work carrying out vital repairs to this 12th-century church.
Learn more:
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At Evensong, the first lesson from Isaiah 19 ends with the prophet proclaiming, "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands".
A joyful reminder of the witness of Coptic and Assyrian Christian communities in their ancient lands.
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The proper response to the 'I don't like Carols from Kings because it's not what I want Anglicanism to be' Tweets is to eat another mince pie & have a hearty Christmas laugh, knowing that Carols from Kings & its popularity will continue long after said Tweets are forgotten.
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On a dark day in Europe, the Virgin of Kyiv, a sign of the ancient Christian culture of Ukraine which has enriched East and West.
To pray for peace is to pray for Ukraine to be delivered from the violence and aggression unjustly inflicted upon it.
#PrayForUkraine
🇺🇦
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I think we have reached peak Autumn at the parish church in Jeremy Taylor country.
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This is why we need to keep the Nicene Creed in Eucharistic rites (and also not replace it with contemporary creedal statements, usually lacking substantive Christological affirmations): we need the explicit declaration 'God of God, Light of Light,Very God of very God'.
Latest
#News
: Australian parishioner writes a self-published book arguing that Jesus was not God incarnate upon his death, leading to her banishment from churches in her diocese.
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On this
#ArmenianGenocide
Remembrance Day, recalling the approximately one million Armenian Christians killed in the genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1917.
Below, the Armenian Genocide Memorial at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. 🇦🇲
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Much to admire about Trinity Episcopal Church, Newport, Rhode Island.
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I was the first in my family to attend university. My wife was the first in her family. And now our daughter has received her MPhil from Cambridge. We are immensely proud of her.
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The Year of Our Lord 2024.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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Living in a region with a strong, historic Presbyterian tradition, this (seen on Facebook, from North Carolina) is what I think Presbyterianism should be like: usually, however, it is the generic, transatlantic evangelical style that is now unfortunately predominant.
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"Luther's phrase 'faith alone' is true, if it is not opposed to faith in charity, in love" - Benedict XVI.
"Faith must of course be sincere. It must be a faith that performs good works through love. If faith lacks love it is not true faith" - Luther (Commentary on Galatians).
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It's odd how many former Anglicans who swim the Tiber (because, you know, 'authority', 'rock', 'unity') end up just as disgruntled, suspicious, and unhappy as they were when Anglicans ...
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"Last month, fireworks lit up the sky around Windsor, as Hindus, Sikhs and Jains celebrated Diwali, the festival of lights, providing joyous moments of hope and unity" Elizabeth II, Christmas speech 2020.
This really is utter nonsense from Ashenden.
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Some brief thoughts on today's Order of Service.
We see the stark majesty of the sentences with which Cranmer opened the Order for the Burial of the Dead.
Robust resurrection hope in the midst of an acknowledgement of our poverty before our Creator and Redeemer.
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Always amusing to see rad-trads embrace Radicalism in order to own the libs in the culture wars.
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Recent sad and tragic news has made me think about the importance of this petition in the Litany. We often know little of the burdens others carry, their struggles, their tribulations. But here in the Litany, we pray for them regularly.
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