June 2013
22 posts
The Piety That Lies Between: A Progressive Christian Perspective: Authority Without Inerrancy? Part II: The Argument from Eroding Trust →
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Can the Bible be, for Christians, that kind of authority? Not only do I think it can, but I think that is precisely the way that received scriptures were treated for much of the history of Judaism and Christianity
“The altar should not remain in its current form and the priest should always face the people — as we can undoubtedly assume Christ did during the Last Supper.”
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The German Mass and Order of Worship of 1526 the heretic Martin Luther (via occident)
Nope, sorry, Luther. The priest isn’t Jesus. The whole congregation, priest included, should face Jesus (i.e East).
“Grace resides in the repetition. Liturgical worship assumes the weakness and frailty of Christian believers. It takes for granted that the Christian will ever mumble and stumble on the path to God; that she will never be instantly and permanently converted; that he will fall away; that Christians must ask for forgiveness again and again. Repetition there must be. This repetition is blessed by God. It is grounded in the promise that Christ will not give up on us; he will carry us through the valley of the shadow of death and protect us from all enemies.”
—Walter Sundberg (via frauluther)
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Let’s see if we can overload responses with Anglo-Catholics :P
I'm looking for ones I don't automatically know the answer to... 9, 10, 14?
9. The collect that Anglo-Catholics use for Benediction (also Prayer #67 in the “Prayers and Thanksgivings” portion of the BCP 1972):
O Lord Jesus Christ, who in a wonderful Sacrament hast left
unto us a memorial of thy passion: Grant us, we beseech
thee, so to venerate the sacred mysteries of thy Body and
Blood, that we may ever perceive within ourselves the fruit of
thy redemption; who livest and reignest with the Father and
the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
10. Lent
14. Trick question? The form that’s in Rite I (p. 328-330). Mostly because it doesn’t have a whole lot of room for long-winded prayers for everything in the world that’s happening, which tend to make the Prayers of the People incredibly drawn out, yet also retains space for local petitions.
Send me a number--Episcopal Style
- 1. Rite I or Rite II?
- 2. Incense?
- 3. Eucharistic Vestments?
- 4. Low, Broad, High, or Anglo-Catholic?
- 5. Purple of Blue during Advent?
- 6. What edition of the BCP do you use?
- 7. Do you Intinct?
- 8. What is your favorite office?
- 9. Favorite collect?
- 10. Favorite liturgical season?
- 11. Your opinion on the 39 articles?
- 12. Coffee or Tea?
- 13. View of confession?
- 14. Favorite Prayers of the People form?
- 15. Favorite Psalm?
- 16. Best branch of the Anglican Communion?
- 17. Favorite Archbishop of Canterbury?
- 18. Opinion of Bishop Schori?
- 19. Number of times volunteered for Coffee Hour?
- 20. Number of times lost in a Labyrinth?
- 21. Things your priest has done that is not in the BCP?
- 22. Favorite Seminary?
- 23. Real candles, or oil?
- 24. Stand or kneel?
- 25. Opinion of the Oxford Movement?
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But in truth, you who are very truth, you know me well and can testify that I write this for the love of your love, my Lord, my most dear Jesus.
I want your love to burn in me as you command so that I may desire to love you alone and sacrifice to you a troubled spirit, ‘a broken and a contrite heart’.
Give me, O Lord, in this exile, the bread of tears and sorrow for which I hunger more than for any choice delights.
Hear me, for your love, and for the dear merits of your beloved Mary, and your blessed Mother, the greater Mary.
Redeemer, my good Jesus, do not despise the prayers of one who has sinned against you but strengthen the efforts of a weakling that loves you.
Shake my heart out of its indolence, Lord, and in the ardour of your love bring me to the everlasting sight of your glory where with the Father and the Holy Spirit you live and reign, God, for ever. Amen.
” —St. Anselm of Canterburyhaving sex with someone is always a threesome when you have god in the room
Five-way? Five-some?
There ARE three Persons…
“We have a government that says it’s okay to eat Twinkies and Cocoa Puffs and Mountain Dew, but it’s illegal to drink raw milk and eat compost-grown tomatoes and Aunt Matilda’s pickles.”
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From sustainable farmer Joel Salatin. Quote captured by Amy Eddings on WNYC Culture blog. (via newanddifferentsun)
I generally agree with this sentiment, but this is factually inaccurate. The government doesn’t say that it’s illegal to consume raw milk, compost-grown tomatoes, and Aunt Matilda’s pickles (depending on if she used illegal substances in them, that is). What the government does is prohibit the SALE of these items because their freshness and lack of disease is difficult to ascertain.
Truth: odinsblog: silas216: All You Need to Know About Irrational... →
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All You Need to Know About Irrational “Self-Defense” Laws in Three Pictures
That’s Ezekiel Gilbert. He was acquitted yesterday in the murder of Lenora Ivie Frago, who had taken $150 from Gilbert for sex and then refused to have sex with him or give…
“But the difference between the self-aware believer, the self-aware sinner and the conscious and deliberate atheist is not a disagreement over whether or not to add one item to the sum total of really existing things. It is a conflict about policies and possibilities for a human life: between someone who accepts the dependence of everything on divine gratuity and attempts to respond with some image of that gratuity, someone who accepts this dependence but fails to act appropriately in response, and someone who denies the dependence and is consequently faced with the unanswerable question of why any one policy for living is preferable to any other.”
—Rowan Williams, Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction. (via furnaceofdoubt)
“Beauty is never “necessary,” “functional” or “useful.” And when, expecting someone whom we love, we put a beautiful tablecloth on the table and decorate it with candles and flowers, we do all this not out of necessity, but out of love. And the Church is love, expectation and joy. […] As long as Christians will love the Kingdom of God, and not only discuss it, they will “represent” it and signify it, in art and beautiful.”
—Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World (via novangla)
FAIR WARNING
If you don’t want to be spoiled for Game of Thrones tonight, which is arguably the biggest thing that has ever happened in the show apart from Ned Stark’s beheading, you should just stay off of Tumblr today. And possibly all of the internets.
I won’t be spoiling anything, I’m just looking out for you all.
Google Image Search > Atari Breakout →
g.co
you won’t regret it
the hopelessness of living
and the childishness of suicide,
but there’s a call to love my brother that can never be destroyed
The practice of Christian existentialism.
9th Episode of Season 1: Ned Stark Dies
9th Episode of Season 2: Tyion Lannister’s face gets slashed
9th Episode of Season 3: I’m sure everyone will be fine :)
9th Episode of Season 1: Ned Stark is beheaded and everything is upended
9th Episode of Season 2: Stannis loses the battle he was supposed to win, Tryion is amazing and almost dies, and everything is upended
9th Episode of Season 3: I’m sure everyone will be fine :)
FTFY
