April 2012
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March 2012
94 posts
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“After all, the surest way to uphold or restore our endangered Church, will be...”
– John Keble, Presbyter and Renewer of the Church, 1866 in “National Apostasy”
“If Jesus is indeed what God communicates to us, God’s language for us, his cross...”
– Rowan Williams, Writing In the Dust (via invisibleforeigner)
“The unity of Christendom is no longer a beautiful dream. It is a pressing...”
– Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of the Philippines, and of Western New York, 1929 in “The Authority of Christ”
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“While much of [Paul’s] writing was done in less than perfect conditions...”
– Chris Yaw, quoted in “Emma of Hawaii vs. Paul of Tarsus” from Lent Madness
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“The church is radically inclusive and baptism is the means by which people are...”
– Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG
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“Soul of Christ, sanctify me: Body of Christ, save me: Blood of Christ inebriate...”
– from “Drunk on Smoke” in “Censing” (4-5) by the Rev’d Dr Richard Major (from The Epic of God, or the Freeze-Frame Mass)
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“You may take away from us, if you will, every eternal ceremony; you may take...”
– James De Koven, Presbyter, to General Convention 1874
“The climax of the gospel contains two great miracles. One is obvious, the one...”
– Sam Wells, Be Not Afraid (via invisibleforeigner) (via zurik)
Shades of Gray: Debunking Debunking →
authorlauralee:
There was recently an episode of the television series House in which an ailing novitiate comes in to the hospital for a diagnosis. One of the doctors on House’s team came to medicine after dropping out of the seminary. He tries to test the faith of the aspiring nun by asking…
“No heresy has ever raised up so radically and so completely against the
God-Man...”
– Archimandrite Saint Justin Popovic, “Man and God-Man”, Athens, 1987
However, Orthodox shouldn’t get cocky about it. Philetism is far more disgusting and inexcusable.
(via rudysnotes)
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“In the mid-sixteenth the tyrant Henry VIII, surely the wickedest person ever to...”
– An Anglo-Catholic view on Thomas Cranmer, from “Kyrie” (4-5) by the Rev’d Dr Richard Major (from The Epic of God, or the Freeze-Frame Mass)
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“The contemporary American church is so largely enculturated to the American...”
– Walter Bruggemann in The Prophetic Imagination
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“I die in the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith, professed by the whole Church...”
– Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells
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“Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that “good”...”
– St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (via philosophilae)
“Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough. Who is the...”
– St. Basil the Great
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“Beyond empire, beyond a church frightened by a collapsing culture, we see in...”
– BC in “Patrick and Hope in the Wilderness”
Anon asked:
It’s obvious you’re really religion, but are you catholic or what? And what’d you mean earlier when you said you may go into religion or whatever? What do you want to do? Just curious.
I’m Christian, and specifically a member of The Episcopal Church, which is both catholic (but not Roman Catholic) and Protestant. I’m an Anglo-Catholic, which means...
“I have no right to impose my thinking, which is rooted in religious thought, on...”
– Cardinal Richard Cushing in “Catholics and Contraception: Boston, 1965” by Seth Meehan (via honor-not-honors)
Catholic Dissent--when wrong turns out to be right →
getmetoanunnery:
This article is amazing.
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“All our Christian language is an attempt to say something quite new, quite...”
– Rowan Williams
“If you feel that Catholicism or Christianity or religion is not represented, by...”
– Marilynn Robinson at Holy Cross, May, 2011. (via stfrancis)
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“I am grateful for Rowan Williams’ service as Archbishop of Canterbury during an...”
– The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori Presiding Bishop and Primate The Episcopal Church
“If you would be simple-hearted like the Apostles, would not conceal your human...”
– Elder Leonid of Optina
“I feel as Western Christians we need to understand that we are not the...”
– Colonel Cyril Young (via orthodoxbrit)
“Glory to You, O Christ; with how many good things have You filled us! How have...”
– St. John Chrysostom (Homily 7 on Colossians)
“A Christian’s shortcomings no more invalidate Christ himself than a broken...”
– Joshua S. Porter (via ishachan)
“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would...”
– C.S. Lewis (via keeperofkeys-)
“If the entire world is a kind of musical harmony whose artisan and creator is...”
– St Gregory of Nyssa (via monastica)
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“I am in favour of same-sex marriage not because I am a wild liberal but because...”
– Dr. Jeffrey John, Dean of St. Albans
Does anyone want to contribute to this blog?
Drop a message in my ask if you’re interested.
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“What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (1918–2007) 