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NE OF MY Favourite “East vrs WEst” things – since my Chrismatoin – has been the whole issue of American Individualism. Over and over again the Fathers and Mothers of the Church emphasise the collective sense of HUmanity. Christ did not come to save me or you or Pope Benedict XVI so [...]

Clicking through the internet, the phrase “Christ Mystery” in a Catholic context sounded at once rather engaging and surprising. Canon Edward West told me once *never* to refer to it as “the Christ Event” because it was dated (this was in 1985, and even then, the theological lingo of the late 60 and early [...]

NE OF MY Favourite lines is from St Maria of Paris. To paraphrase, she said God one ask her about her ritual or her prayers. God will, rather, ask her if she fed the poor he sent her way.
This is rightfully read as a claim that those who show the trappings of [...]

VER AT Religion-Dispatches, Pastor Candace Chellew-Hodge asks Does the President Need Churching? Seems the man still isn’t going to church on Sunday. Like the vast majority of Americans, I might add. She has this great paragraph in the middle…
“Personally, I don’t care if President Obama goes to church. As a pastor I know [...]

T’S THAT Time of year again: July the 17th, or, possibly, the 4th. July 14th, too. Hither and thither you’ll find sundry pious types (mostly RCs and EOs) lamenting the fall of the Russian and French Monarchy – usually with true reports of the atrocities that followed the fall of those kings.
The death [...]

HE ANGLICAN Bishop of Cyberspace (at least by my nomination), Alan Wilson, has made two posts on open communion:
Liturgical Terrorism or the Future
Intercommunion: Finding a Way Home
The Bishop is speaking of communion between Christian bodies, of what happens when Jack the Methodist and Tor the Lutheran and Haagen the Reformed Kirker all gather at the [...]

HE Following Quote from Metropolitan Jonah sets the stage for my thoughts today. It’s from his Pastoral Letter for the Sanctity of Life Sunday and I think it ties all the issues together nicely in a handful of sentences:
Most of all, we must restore the family: not just the nuclear family, but the multi-generational [...]

PISCOPAL Cafe links to an article about the ‘Microsoft” of altar wafers:
The family-owned company makes about 80 percent of the communion bread used by the Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran and Southern Baptist churches in the United States. It has a similar market share in Australia, Canada and Britain, and is now looking to expand to [...]

HAT KIND of people are we? When God gives, we wish to receive, but when he begs, we refuse to give. Remember, it was Christ who said: I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat. When the poor are starving, Christ too hungers. Do not neglect to improve the unhappy conditions of the [...]

s the current series winds down (I need only to add a conclusion) I’ve decided to add the previous series into it. The Invitation to communion (“With Faith and Love Draw Near!”) as well as the most recent post on Bible Reading as Tarot Reading, seems to me to be a full set with [...]