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ER HOST IS Breaking his blogging fast over the news that Vatican Revises Abuse Process and has also made named the Ordination of Women as grave a sin as the abuse of Children – and both on par with desecration of the Blessed Sacrament and concelebrating with Protestants. This is not media spin, but rather [...]

ERGE RECENTLY WROTE Some very kind (tough but kind) things about me on his blog last week and then entered into a dialogue about those things in the comment section. Other people have asked me about the things he said: are they true? First, thank you Serge. I’m honoured by your kindness. And by your [...]

‘ALL (Clergy or not) take a look at this post from TribalChurch. Although she writes in a Presbyterian community, I think it’s a valid question for us using the traditional model of the three-fold ministerial hierarchy of Deacon, Presbyter, Bishop (in the Indy, Eastern, Roman, Anglican or Lutheran etc communities). How do we stop seeing [...]

VER THE LAST FEW weeks, something has come into a sharp focus that was kinda fuzzy a few months ago and totally non-existant a few years ago. Part of the focus has been the development of the language to talk about it. This was made a sharper focus tonight through two conversations: one with my [...]

God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquillity the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which were being cast down are being raised up, and things which had [...]

S PART of my on-going vocational discernment, I’ve decided to look at clergy that I admire and pull out common traits. Actually, there’s a modicum of parallels even with some clergy I despise… To use an over-abused word, all of ‘em are Mavericks. A maverick is an unbranded range animal, especially a motherless calf. It [...]

RINITY CHURCH, Buffalo, Is going through some discernment processes just now. She’s trying to decide what are the next steps to take in her parochial vocation as stipulated in the Mission Statement. Trinity is a metropolitan house of prayer. We’re a community of worship and spiritual inquiry and we welcome all people. We recognize our [...]

The LORD called Samuel again, a third time. And he got up and went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli perceived that the LORD was calling the boy. Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down; and if he calls you, you shall say, `Speak, LORD, for your [...]

S TODAY Is the feast of Christ the King – the patronal feast of the Anglican Cathedral in Hamilton as well as the feast of the RC Cathedral here – most of the hymns, this AM, were rather laudatory and muscular, to use the word used by the preacher. One gets the rather masculine image [...]

ECENT CONVERSATIONS With several clergy and wannabe clergy folks within ECUSA, Orthodoxy, Judaism and the Indy Sacramental movement have led me to a corner I’ve visited before and I keep coming back to it the longer I pray. Define the difference between Ordination in any mainline church and ordination in almost every non-mainline church and [...]