A Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…
Decalogue Series (Rafferty)Christ, the End of the Law: The Decalogue and Christian Ethics One God and One Lord: Commandments 1-3 Keeping the Feast-Christ and the Sabbath Honoring Father and Mother Do No Murder: Love of Neighbor and the Love of God Adultery and Theft: Seizing God’s Gifts Bearing Faithful Witness Coveting and Christian DesireCommandment 5…
It should come as no surprise that Roman Catholics, by and large, do not accept the validity of Anglican orders, as to do so would severely undermine their own claim to be the One True Church. Ever since the Church of England became independent, then, Romanists have lodged a number of arguments against those orders….
A Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…
Decalogue Series (Rafferty)Christ, the End of the Law: The Decalogue and Christian Ethics One God and One Lord: Commandments 1-3 Keeping the Feast-Christ and the Sabbath Honoring Father and Mother Do No Murder: Love of Neighbor and the Love of God Adultery and Theft: Seizing God’s Gifts Bearing Faithful Witness Coveting and Christian DesireCommandment 4…
World Of Wonders: A Spirituality of Reading. By Jeff Crosby. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2025. 176 pp. $18.99 (paper). I have put forth the suggestion that books are a way that our lives can be opened up, expanded, sharpened, deepened, and made more vibrant and whole. Reading as part of our practice of spiritual disciplines is…
A Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…
Decalogue Series (Rafferty)Christ, the End of the Law: The Decalogue and Christian Ethics One God and One Lord: Commandments 1-3 Keeping the Feast-Christ and the Sabbath Honoring Father and Mother Do No Murder: Love of Neighbor and the Love of God Adultery and Theft: Seizing God’s Gifts Bearing Faithful Witness Coveting and Christian DesireSt. Thomas…
As Browne observes, it is commonly agreed with respect to the Homilies that The kind of assent, which we are here called on to give to them, is general, not specific. We are not expected to express full concurrence with every statement, or every exposition of Holy Scripture contained in them, but merely in the…
A Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…