Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces cleanThe children walking two & two in red & blue & greenGrey headed beadles walkd before, with wands as white as snowTill into the high dome of Pauls they like Thames waters flow O what a multitude they seemd these flowers of London townSeated in companies theyContinue reading “Ascension”
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On Liturgy
Liturgy is a most intimate facet of the Christian assemblies lived faith in Jesus Christ and a function of the presence of within it. The liturgy, like the Sabbath is not playing for the faithful assembly, but it sustained summons home to God in Christ. It is the fundamental way church stands before the fatherContinue reading “On Liturgy”
Robert Farrer Capon on Mothers
To be a mother is to be the sacrament-the effective symbol-of place. They do not make homes, they are our home: in the simple sense that we begin our days by a long sojourn within the body of a woman; in the extended sense that she remains our center of gravity through the years. SheContinue reading “Robert Farrer Capon on Mothers”
Church Fathers on Animals
Martin Luther, upon seeing a dog, whose tail had been mangled by a wagon wheel said: “Take comfort, small friend, in the Resurrection, you too shall have a little golden tail.” Martin Luther, Letter to J. Goritz, 1544 “I beg you to show kindness to animals. The very least you can do is to putContinue reading “Church Fathers on Animals”
“The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.”~ John of Damascus
The Church Fathers on Racism
“We ought to understand that while the names of God may differ among the various nations, nevertheless, since we are all of the same origin, we ought to consider ourselves as of one family, and not despise the kinship of the human race.” (Gregory of Nyssa, Great Catechism, 32) “God has made all races ofContinue reading “The Church Fathers on Racism”
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all good to enter and abide with us. George Eliot
Lent – George Herbert
Welcome dear feast of Lent: who loves not thee,He loves not Temperance, or Authority,But is composed of passion.The Scriptures bid us fast; the Church says, now:Give to thy Mother, what thou would allowTo every Corporation. The humble soul composed of love and fearBegins at home, and lays the burden there,When doctrines disagree.He says, in thingsContinue reading “Lent – George Herbert”
Saints out of Sinners
“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure. But he does what is still more wonderful: He makes saints out of sinners.” Soren Kierkegaard
Every Man Has a Right…
Every man has a right to say what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. Samuel Johnson
Locus Communis 