Yes, I'm also impressed with CP's work! I'm with you on the Zondervans. The typesetting just does not appeal to me, so I've been waiting for an alternative. Excited that Cambridge is also planning on doing a Diadem NRSVue. So we'll have some options.
I admit I still have not switched over, but I'm very glad to see this new edition of the NRSVue Bible with Apocrypha coming out from Church Publishing. Release date is April 14.
But come on: if you think our orders are utterly null and totally void, then why are you so bothered?
(I sometimes wonder whether this sort of reaction is sometimes motivated by a fear that the Anglican Communion might be a real church after all)
Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally kneels before the altar during the liturgy of her installment at Canterbury Cathedral. She wears a golden cope.
"Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me."
One of my favorite images from Archbishop Sarah's installation: her swearing of the oath with the St. John's Gospel Book open to the incarnation illumination. So powerful and moving.
Melting down one's valuable possessions to make a chalice, fiercely advocating for the sacramental care of the poor and dispossessed.
Such is the ministry of Isabella Gilmore, who oversaw the reinstitution of women to the diaconate in the Church of England. More of this energy please.
I remember reading about that years ago from this wonderful book! Thank you for reminding me. A great anthology overall, but I remember really liking an essay that traces how Eastern liturgical poetry gets taken up into Methodist hymnals. www.google.com/books/editio...
So true.
And I think there is another arguing for pre-70 Johannine priority. And the author is the Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity at Cambridge!
Lovely to hear!
And I also.
I listened to his book on Benedict as an audiobook, and it was not bad in terms of syntax. But certainly, you are not alone in feeling this way. I have heard similar complaints from others.
I think I did listen to that! Many years ago perhaps. Especially because the title of that book sounds familiar, and it made me realize that a lot of leadership books are actually attempting to be manuals of public virtue. Not that they always succeed! Or inculcate true virtues!
Yes, the Rule has certainly had its influence on Anglicanism. Another example: It's pretty clear from Rowan Williams's book on the Rule that he got a lot of his leadership philosophy from listening to St. Benedict.
At least in my circles: it seems like people are desperately trying to find a way to live amid chaos. The monastic traditions have this incredible practicality that is very attractive right now. I'll be interested to hear how your class as a whole progresses. Sounds wonderful.
Don't know how this is possible, but: I've never been a monk and yet the Rule of St. Benedict has profoundly shaped my life, challenging me to listen more deeply and to live life with deep roots. Very happy to share these reflections with you all. ⚓ drawnfromthechalice.substack.com/p/how-the-ru...
Oh yeah no worries. I thought your joke was very funny.
Nah we can just have an endless library of online PDFs and rectors can spend their time copying and pasting from that and printing it up fresh each week.
Did he not walk so we could run??
Truly the most threatening thing anyone has ever said to me on Bluesky. 😂 I admire your passion and clarity on this issue.
You do realize that if Hooker beats Cranmer, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity immediately becomes an authorized liturgy of the Episcopal Church, and we'll just start reading that aloud for Sunday service?
btw the point of spiritual direction is not for your director to say: “Ignore your conscience and listen to me!”
I’m just convinced. Raïssa Maritain’s life as a contemplative in the world informed the positions taken at Vatican II.
Her reflections on conscience should strike fear into every abusive spiritual director, even as her words on spiritual freedom will give courage to the timid.
I believe this.
The most recurrent and persistent insight spoken by retreatants, visitors, guests, and students is that we monks are so peaceful and welcoming to them.
My honest response to them usually entails something akin to, "Yes, it's because we take naps, and don't work ourselves to death."
I've been waiting for this to come out! Thank you for posting about it in advance. It was a very interesting read, and a good introduction for me to Lonergan.
hey if the article can help the first-year seminarian and the 76 year-old priest, that is great news. Thanks for taking an interest.
"I wish every seminarian would read it on their first day of liturgical studies."
Just one of the heartening comments on my latest. Thank you for the warm responses! ⚓
My own training/tradition is that stoles are removed for the foot-washing, but to see the Bishop of Rome in a deacon's stole says some very good things.
I did not notice that! Thanks for pointing that out. A beautiful testament to the way Pope Francis carried his diaconal ordination all the way into the papacy.