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Dr. John Woodhouse on Colossians 2:16-17
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Here is the next in the series of video lectures on Colossians by Dr. John
Woodhouse of Moore Theological College in Australia. In this one, Dr.
Woodhouse...
1 hour ago
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3…2…1…
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A glimpse at the pastoral style of His Hermeneuticalness. To find out what
this is all about, click HERE. (Darn good idea, if you think about it.)
Technora...
2 hours ago
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Two biggest stories of February 13-17, 2012
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Two stories dominated the press and air waves this past week (beyond the
untimely death of Whitney Houston): The Obama decision to mandate
contraception a...
2 hours ago
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The "Apple" of Tim's Eye: From Rome, Dolan Talks New York
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Returning again to the "star" of this Consistory, in keeping with an
emphatic point of his major Vatican speech on Friday -- that his charge is
anything bu...
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British politics could do with a bit of Rick Santorum’s religion
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By Tim Stanley, Telegraph A lot of Britons think that America is on the
brink of becoming a theocracy. The media is to blame. Folks like Louis
Theroux and ...
6 hours ago
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(CNS) Former Anglican priests begin formation to be ordained Catholic
priests
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Seminarians currently enrolled at St. Mary's served as hosts during the
opening day of the first formation weekend in January. "I think the
seminarians at ...
6 hours ago
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Fear and favour
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Following the US election marathon is always unnerving for Brits. Listening
to some of the views of potential presidential candidates can be scary on
this ...
6 hours ago
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Gujarat massacre: the law must apply to all
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Almost ten years ago, one of the survivors of a horrific massacre set about
trying to win justice for her murdered husband and scores of others, writes ...
6 hours ago
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CofE Covenant vote 10-5 against
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[image: Rowan flogging dead Covenant]Do as I say – not as I do. I’m
squandering precious time and energy on the “Anglican Covenant”. Don’t. I
have regularl...
7 hours ago
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"I shall spend every moment loving" - St Bernadette Soubirous
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*Saint Bernadette Soubirous*
"I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her
trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love...
8 hours ago
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Fire extinguisher training
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Recently we had the great good fortune that two of our carbon dioxide
extinguishers ended their safely useful life. Therefore we had an
opportunity for t...
8 hours ago
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HELP OR EXPLOITATION?
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Way back in the 1980’s unemployment was at a peek caused by runaway
inflation. I can well remember calling to see a client and being greeted by
a newly e...
10 hours ago
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When the House of Bishops said no to ‘benign tolerance’ on sexuality issues
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Perhaps worth pondering in the present situation is the following from *Some
Issues in Human Sexuality: A Guide to the Debate* (London: Church House,
200...
10 hours ago
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On Prosperity Gospel
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And that I think sums it up.
11 hours ago
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The Institution of the Eucharist, by Guisto
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This article is by Dr Caroline Farey of the Maryvale Institute. She and I
worked together to design the Institute's degree level diploma(6 US
credits): A...
11 hours ago
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Celebration
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It isn't usually my custom to duplicate stuff from other sites here on the
Valle Adurni, but I must make an exception in this case. The church of St
Mary M...
12 hours ago
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The State giveth and the State taketh away
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On the one hand, Baroness Warsi makes a speech at the Vatican bemoaning the
attack on the Christian traditions which have formed British cultural and
polit...
14 hours ago
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Pope, new cardinals concelebrate Mass
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI and the 22 new cardinals he created
yesterday concelebrated Mass this morning in St. Peter’s Basilica. The pope
used Berni...
17 hours ago
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For South Sudan Woman, Misery on Both Sides of the Border
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Having seen her first husband and two of her children die, being a
southerner in an inhospitable northern land is the latest hardship Mary
Nyekueh Ley says...
23 hours ago
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Pastoral Letter to the TAC from Abp. Hepworth
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PASTORAL LETTERArchbishop HepworthIn recent months, a deep division has been created in the Traditional Anglican Communion. Bishops and Vicars General have ...
1 day ago
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Africa: Call for Participants From Continent to Apply for the
Peacebuilders' Exchange
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The Anglican Alliance is calling for applications from young Anglican
peacebuilders in Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Zimbabwe to
take part ...
1 day ago
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General Convention, Same-Sex Blessings, and +Bennison
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At its national level, the Episcopal Church (USA) becomes more and more
absurd each day. Consider just the following stories:
1. Last August, two leaders o...
1 day ago
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Quinquagesima or the next Sunday before Lent
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I Corinthians 13 * Luke 18:31-43
I am glad that we use the old English, the Authorized, that is King James
Bible. I prefer the use of the word “charity” t...
1 day ago
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Anglican Covenant rejected in more English dioceses
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Four dioceses in the Church of England voted today on the proposal to adopt
the draft Anglican Covenant. Earlier results are reported here. In
Leicester th...
1 day ago
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Moral theologian answers 'remote cooperation' argument on contraceptive
mandate
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Earlier this week, David Gibson of Religion News Service posted a column
arguing that in their opposition to the Obama contraceptive mandate, the
American ...
2 days ago
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New Cardinal
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I was interested to see that the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar
Church in India, Mar George Alencherry, is shortly to be made a Cardinal-
even though...
2 days ago
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Dolan's new evangelisation vision
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Cardinal-elect Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, has reminded
cardinals meeting in Rome that the Gospel is a ‘yes' not a ‘no', and it is
a person ...
2 days ago
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OLD POSTS FROM LAST YEAR ABOUT THE COUNCIL
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Surviving readers might be diverted to consider how dated, even after but one year, these pieces feel.
2 days ago
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The Right Question
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What is wrong with The Episcopal Church? Lots. But the question itself I find wrongheaded. “Fixing” a temporal institution for today will inevitably sow the ...
2 days ago
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An Attempt at Translating the 1662 BCP into Modern English
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The talk around the Anglican world seems to be pushing for "modern"
editions of the 1662 BCP. While I would rather use the original language
and offer com...
3 days ago
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Queen defends C of E
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THE Queen said on Wednesday that the Church of England was “commonly
under-appreciated”.
3 days ago
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A Pastoral Letter from the House of Bishops of the Anglican Province of America
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We feel compelled to comment in a non-political way on therecent
pronouncement from the Secretary of Health and Human Services
(HHS)concerning the requir...
3 days ago
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Militant secularists fail to understand the rules of secular debate |
Andrew Brown
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Angry nonbelievers assume 'the religious' have no access to reason – so all
they do is repeat themselves, loudly
Reading Julian Baggini's lucid defence o...
3 days ago
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God Jeering
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A good article from Alison Pearson on Christianity and the modern world.
Here she expresses the views of many not so regular church-goers who value
the tra...
3 days ago
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Heading back to the farm...
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I'll be spending a few days in Connecticut, back at the family home where I
grew up. My mother is 80 now, and had a stroke about a year and a half ago.
S...
5 days ago
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The Journey of Mount Calvary
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At long last, I am glad to be able to accept Fr. Bartus's invitation to
contribute to this blog. During the period between Mount Calvary's vote to
accept t...
5 days ago
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What an excuse!
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We have our grandson with us for half-term - which gives us a perfect
pretext for doing new things. Today we went to the Southampton Aircraft
Museum (I d...
6 days ago
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Mgr Jeffrey Steenson: Inaugural Homily – ‘The Chair of St Peter and
Christian Unity’
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The Chair of St. Peter and Christian Unity “Behold how good and joyful a
thing it is, for brethren to dwell together in unity!” (Ps. 133:1). With
all our...
6 days ago
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The Real Anglican Patrimony
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There has been much discussion of just what the "Anglican Patrimony"
consists. Is it the beautiful tradition of hymnody, the choral tradition,
and the Boo...
1 week ago
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Communion to Homebound Faithful
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For the sake of a more thorough reflection on the subject of extended Holy
Communion and the diaconal ministry, the present piece should be considered
in c...
1 week ago
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Hungary Reasserts Sovereignty
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In a heated dialogue between Deputy PM Tibor Navracsics and Commissioner
Neelie Kroes yesterday, Hungary's sovereign primacy over the European Union
was as...
1 week ago
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Shock News – Church of England Produces BRILLIANT Website
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We are speechless. Let’s be honest, we at the Twurch see ourselves as
critical friends of the Church, pointing out ways and means in which the
central bodi...
1 week ago
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Catholics follow the teaching of Christ on penance: "the day will come when they will fast"
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What is the Church's official position concerning penance and abstinence
from meat during Lent?
In 1966 Pope Paul VI reorganized the Church's practice of p...
1 week ago
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FULLY INVOLVED
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Pop quiz. What is the Bad Vestments rule about flames and directionality?
2 weeks ago
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SUBJECT: FAITH!!!!!!!
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. . . and after faith — and ONLY after faith — politics! I posed an
interesting question to my students a few weeks ago. It was a potentially
politically i...
2 weeks ago
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Connecticut Concordate
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The Connecticut Concord was signed Nov. 14 1784 by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Samuel
Seabury as a condition to his elevation to the episcopate while in Aberdeen
Scot...
2 weeks ago
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Ladies hats
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So we heard last week that the Royal Enclosure at Ascot will be enforcing a
stricter dress code this year. They will be cracking down in particular on
lad...
2 weeks ago
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God Has Appeared As A Child
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*By Pope Benedict XVI*
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*Dear Brothers and Sisters!*
The reading from Saint Paul’s Letter to Titus that we have just heard
begins solemnly with the word ...
1 month ago
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Christians in the Middle East: Debate in Parliament
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Following a conference at Lambeth Palace, jointly convened in the
summer by Their Graces the Archbishop of Canterbury (Church of England) and
the Archbisho...
2 months ago
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Patens (medieval examples)
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As you may expect due to the wholesale and well-organised confiscation of
parish silver in the mid sixteenth century, medieval English parish plate
does no...
2 months ago
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On ++Rowan's retirement - or Which Jesus?
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So Jonathan Wynne-Jones got the Sunday Telegraph splash with the news that
the Archbishop of Canterbury is to retire in 2012 (perhaps, maybe), 9 years
befo...
5 months ago
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Ss. Thomas the Apostle and Thomas of Canterbury
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On Sunday we kept the feast of the Apostle Thomas. As we are also near to
or in the Octave (or perhaps even more tenuously, the orbit) of the Feast
of the...
7 months ago
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The Tractarians and the Liturgy
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The Oxford Movement or Tractarianism often gets the blame for certain
things which were not part of their original programme. One of these is the
profusion...
8 months ago
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Imaginative Apologetics
Theology, Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition
By Andrew Davision (Ed; former tutor in Doctrine at St. Stephen's House,
Oxford.)
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8 months ago
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ASCENSION DAY
Thursday, June 2
12:00 Noon Low Mass
6:00 p.m. Procession and High Mass (followed by a reception)
Mass for four voices - William Byrd
Ascendit...
8 months ago
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Do You Cheat On Your Taxes?
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By Eric Von Salzen
Income taxes are due on April 18th this year, so this is a timely question.
According to a survey by DDB Worldwide Communications Grou...
10 months ago
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1 year ago
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Tit for tat?
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"Each of the Marian dogmas was widely welcomed among Roman Catholics and
gladly received by some other Christians, as giving formal expression to
what ha...
1 year ago
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'You start Saul, and end up Paul'
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I recently found a choral piece based on the story of Saul's conversion by
the contemporary American composer Z. Randall Stroope. 'The Conversion of
Sau...
1 year ago
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actuosa participatio
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Rather sooner than I thought might be the case, my return to blogging can
be found at http://www.actuosaparticipatio.org. The ‘mission statement’
(euchh!) ...
1 year ago
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The opening of General Synod and the disciplining of the Bishop of Willesden
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The ninth General Synod of the Church of England opened this morning with a
service in Westeminster Abbey attended by the Queen.
The event (in the press ...
1 year ago
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Postscript: Anglican Ordinariates
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This absolutely bizarre news report courtesy of VOL is enough to warrant
one more post on this blog.
Fr. Phillip's comments as given in this article are qu...
1 year ago
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The hand of friendship
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How wonderful to see the Pope enter these shores with humility, gentleness
and grace. I especially enjoyed seeing him conversing gently with Her
Majesty th...
1 year ago
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William Beveridge: it is by his Son only that we are reconciled to God
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William Beveridge
(1637-1708)THE *Grace* which closes the Morning and Evening Prayer names
all three Persons of the Blessed Trinity, but not in the order on...
1 year ago
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Mitregate: The Sequel
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Note: This will be the last post at the blog at Typepad. Articles of Faith is the first of The Times blogs to go permanently behind the paywall and onto a di...
1 year ago
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Returning to a fresh start
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Readers of “O God, come to my assistance,” today is an announcement day.
As you previously may have read, I ended my discernment with the Anglican
Order o...
1 year ago
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New home
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I’ve moved Anglican Samizdat to a new home here. If I decide I like it
there, I might even stay. Although I’ll leave this version blog up, I’ve
closed comm...
1 year ago
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Sorry
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For the lack of updates recently this month, Barchester sincerely
apologises. Work has been hectic in preparation for the elections.
However, do please re...
2 years ago
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Break
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I'm taking a break from blogging due to busyness. I shall return after some
much-needed sleep and rest!
A blessed Advent to you all.
2 years ago
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Communion Prayer of Philoxenus of Mabbug
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When you have extended your hands and taken the body, bow, and put your
hands before your face, and worship the living Body whom you hold. Then
speak with ...
2 years ago
