Christ is Risen!

Be Poets of the Logos!
Sarx (σαρξ) is the Greek word for "flesh". This is the blog of a Southern Man (sojourning in Buffalo, NY) attempting to follow God in the way of Jesus. I am ordained in the Independent Sacramental Movement, serving under the omophor of Bp Craig of the Universal Anglican Church. We are founding a mission here in Buffalo. You can email me at "arkouda" at this domain.

Disclaimer

I who have written this story, or rather this fable, give no credence to the various incidents related in it. For some things in it are the deceptions of demons, other poetic figments; some are probable, others improbable; while still others are intended for the delectation of foolish men. (Closing lines of the Táin Bó Cúalnge)

ACNA+OCA=AOCANA?

ORD ON THE Street is that Mtr Jonah of the OCA told the new Anglicans that he would break off Ecumenical Discussions with ECUSA and take ‘em up with them.
I can’t find the transcript on the OCA site and can’t bring myself to listen. So maybe. (Although in the past not finding the [...]

Liturgical Reform

The following is from the introduction to New Skete’s Book of Prayers, their communities’ Horologion:
HE RESULT Of all this study and experience, therefore, is a schema of the canonical hours which is both a reform and a restoration and, precisely because it is such, it is also a renewal. It is a restoration because [...]

Not Corpus Christ

EADING THE Liturgy Books from New Skete. The Brothers were formerly Byzantine Catholics and so they have brought with them some of the devotional practices from the past. One the Julian Paschalion, as used by Byzantine Catholics, this Thursday (the second Thursday after Pentecost) would be the Feast of Corpus Christi. I [...]

Romans in Tax Dodge Shuffle

HE ROMAN Catholic Ecclesial Community in San Francisco has paid out some $40 Million in clergy-related Sex Abuse cases. In an effort to protect some assets, they transfered some very famous property – including Mission Delores, the old cathedral (St Mary’s) and the historic but totally abandoned St Francis church in SoMa – [...]

Woots!

New Skete books on the way!!

Candles

SEEM to remember somewhere (back in my convert days) reading an essay on why the lights in Orthodox Churches should be Oil Lamps if possible, beeswax where candles were needed. Paraffin could be used where needed, but it wasn’t as clean as beeswax, electricity was right out: the lights represent a sacrifice. [...]

Someone is telling a lie (at least one)

ERSION ONE of the Story says Metropolitan PHILIP, plays the “Trump” of the Archdiocese: “You are fired” to the Chancellors of the Archdiocese!:
Close sources to theantiochian.com informed us that the meeting of the board of trustees of the Archdiocese is finished with the unanimous and full support for the Metropolitan of this Archdiocese [...]

Antioch Kerfuffle Continues

OT TO LOVE The way they love each other. Antiochia Bishops to Damascus without Mtr Philip:
According to these sources, the members of the Synod of Antioch were shocked to discover they had been misled by Metropolitan Philip, and that there was no “dissension and disunity” in North America – nor a widespread desire of [...]

The Saints at SGN

Christ is Risen!

REIND Of this Blog and my own friend, Donald Schell, has posted a piece over at the Episcopal Cafe on the icon of the Dancing Saints at St Gregory of Nyssa Church. Donald’s article documents the process in which the community engaged on the way, debating and finally selecting the images painted [...]

Leave-Taking

Christ is Risen!

EPENDING ON Which Easter-calendar you’re on (I’m on the Gregorian one…) today is the leave-taking of Pascha, the last day of singing the hymns of Easter. If you’re a Byzantine-Rite user, today (or Next Wednesday if you’re into the Julian Easter) is liturgical supposed to be Just Like Pascha. It’s the [...]