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O WE WERE Sipping tea in the church, a clergy friend and I, relaxing in that most Orthodox of fashion: making Eucharist and fellowship with our ginger beer and crisps after a really smashing pot luck. We were discussing “What makes it Christian community” – that is a church or a meal or whatever. And [...]

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 have the Catholic [...]

hou⋅sel  /ˈhaʊzəl/ [hou-zuhl] noun, verb, -seled, -sel⋅ing or (especially British) -selled, -sel⋅ling. Archaic. –noun 1. the Eucharist. 2. the act of administering or receiving the Eucharist. –verb (used with object) 3. to administer the Eucharist to. Origin: bef. 900; (n.) ME; OE hūsl the Eucharist, prob. orig. offering; c. ON hūsl, Goth hunsl sacrifice, offering; (v.) [...]

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 this [...]

Continuing our series on “The Big Three”, Trinity, Incarnation and Eucharist. The Menu for the entire series is there in the sidebar. The first posts went “inward” on this Journey, from Eucharist to Incarnation to Trinity. Now we go the other way – outward… When Jesus said that we are to Love God and our [...]

HE HOLY Trinity may be seen as God who is Transcendent, God who dwells with us, and God who dwells in us. The Bible refers to God, “in whom we live and move and have our Being”. That is the Father. The prayer that opens every service in the Eastern Rite refers to God as [...]

RINITY is the third of the “Big Three” doctrines without which I can’t make sense of Christianity. It is the third leg of my own personal xmin stool. It is also the third in doctrinal Chronology. After Eucharist (from the very beginning) through an understanding of Jesus as God, came the understanding of God as [...]

F I’m ever asked why I want to be a priest, I hope I can be this eloquent. (Props to Fr T)

Continuing with the series linked in the sidebar there, under the peace cross. Here is part two on Incarnation. LOT OF Christians get this one wrong. Some, today, even deny it outright. Here’s the most important, radical, revolutionary thing about Christianity: God has a navel. I don’t know if it was an “inney” or an [...]

ITH THE Last post in this series we began a look at Eucharist. I’d like to broaden this out now, seeing Eucharist in places we might normally see it. Before there was the idea of “Mass” – of a ritual eating divided out from the community meal – there was the reality of the Agape [...]