a poor wayfaring stranger
We See Through A Mirror Darkly
A Time to Weep, A Time to Mourn
Lent begins ashless in the classic prayerbooks. The trend for well over a century has been to bring back the ashes, which I do not personally object to. However, I wish we moved towards placing ashes upon the crown of our heads instead of marking a cross on our foreheads, as was common in…
Rooted in Rubrics
Do the red, read the black. It’s the common refrain of long-time Anglicans who remember a time when the Book of Common Prayer’s rubrics were printed in red and the prayers in black. This long-lost tradition makes it easier for clergy and laity to discern what is prayed and what acts are required. However, contemporary…
A Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction
The one-year Sunday and holy day lectionary educated, catechized, and marked the days year by year and century by century for the Western Church. When the traditional one-year lectionary was replaced during mid-20th-century prayer book revisionism, we lost the pattern of catechesis and marking of time that formed and molded Western Christianity for well over…
A Method Amidst the Madness – Inspiration for Living the Inspired Life
In order to rebuild and restore what is lost, we must provide a firm and steady foundation upon the rock of Christ in a world gone mad. We cannot build new institutions, nor trust old ones, unless the men and women are working from a solid discipline and desire to become saintly and not merely saints-in-name-only….
Crafted by Catechesis: The Anglican Formularies Reading Plan
Pursuing Christ through the Prayerbook Life: A Catechetical Resource North American Anglicanism has long faced an identity crisis. Anglicanism has reinvented itself into three streams, old catholicism, Presbyterianism with prayerbooks, etc. Trendy soundbites are the extent of the theology of clergy and laity alike, typically ranging from an ambiguous and muddy “via media” between Rome…
Bearing the Image, Reflecting the Son
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” (Romans 12:1 ESV). St. Paul is the theologian of the body. How we use our the bodies our Maker gives us reflects our faith in Him…
The Ark’s Advent – An Adventful Allegory
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. Hebrews 1:1 KJV One of the great, if not…
Jordan’s Shores
The Sunday Next before Advent Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Jesus shall reign where’er the sun Does his successive journeys run; His kingdom stretch from…
Devoutly Given
The Twenty-Second Sunday After Trinity Lord, we beseech thee to keep thy household the Church in continual godliness; that through thy protection it may be free from all adversities, and devoutly given to serve thee in good works, to the glory of thy name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Alas! and did my Saviour…
Breaking Winter’s Silence
The Twenty-First Sunday after Trinity Soldiers of Christ, arise, And put your armor on; Strong in the strength which God supplies, Through His eternal Son. Trouble comes our way. It always seeks us out, for this fallen world is filled with the Curse’s brokenness. At first glance, autumn’s hues are warm despite the changing…