I didn’t have to work at my usual night job tonight…
So what are we up to? M+ and I are sitting in the office. I’m doing some PHP programming, she’s listening to some German industrial [Massiv in Mensch] which she’s periodically pausing while we stop and compare plainchant mass settings… (I think she’s working on a goth mass setting for those wondering…)
Ah, a normal night at the house.
Speaking of the Episcopal Cafe…there’s an article about it up at episcopallife online right now.
I think Jim in the article is right to note that it’s a growing thing. What it is yet to be, we still don’t know. I’m intrigued by Dean Knisely’s statement that it’s looking to be more representative and that it seeks to add some conservative voices. I’d be in favor of that. I think it currently has a reputation as a “liberal” site and there’s probably some truth to it–though I wouldn’t consider all of the contributors liberal, myself among them.
I’ve got another post up at the Episcopal Cafe; it’s a look at the liturgical life as envisioned by the prayer book and monastic virtues that help us realize it. (The title’s not mine…I had no idea what to call it and left it as an Editor’s Choice…)
Blessed Feast of the Holy Trinity to you all! In celebration of this occasion, I’ll point you to one of my favorite posts of the past, Revelations of Divine Algebra.
I’ll note that despite the great suggestions in the comments by Annie, *Christopher, Marshall+ and others, I haven’t had the chance to alter the content, so take their thoughts into consideration as well.
Some children, I’m led to understand, have imaginary friends; Lil’ G has an entire entourage.
Some of them like the infamous Va-Va and Do-Do are entirely imaginary, though with complete and complicated back-stories. (Like the time that Lil’ G married Va-Va, whence we learned that Va-Va 1) is a boy 2) from India.) Others like Claire and Keaney are real friends from school, some like Audrey are friends she had before we moved. Kizzy is among the entourage and after the recent meet-up with LutherPunk, we learned this week that his two are now among the crowd as well.
This is partially in response to Lee who has a really good one up today…
M and I have often had conversations about feeling that we weren’t born at quite the right time in history, almost as if we really should have been born at some other time but ended up now by mistake… Well, here’s the theme song for that particular feeling.
Check out the Sanctorum Mass at Church of the Apostles in Seattle if you haven’t already done so. Church of the Apostles is an Emergent experiment staffed by both ELCA Lutheran and Episcopal clergy.
I linked to this a while back and noted that I had a friend in the Seattle area who had a Skinny Puppy collection rivaling LutherPunk’s and that I’d ask him if he’d heard of it. No need to—he’s the priest who leads it… :-D
(…and yes, I’ve received several click-throughs on various days for ‘goth liturgy’ Google searches…)
Here’s an interesting response to the issue discussed previously about sermon stealing.
I do have to take issue with the history of preaching presented by the author, however; it’s not entirely accurate.
Nevertheless, one of the things that left me scratching my head after my last preaching class is the ways that my students did or didn’t rely on the Bible in their sermons–or when they did use it the depth to which they engaged it.
(h/t T19)
Mr Abraham Yisa, Board Chairman of CANA , who was in the U.S. three weeks ago to attend the enthronement of Minns told NAN “that Canterbury had no right to choose who goes to the Lambeth or not”.
Say what?!?
The whole thing is here; h/t Thinking Anglicans.
Fr. Marshall Scott of Episcopal Chaplain at the Bedside has a great article up at the Episcopal Cafe on Anglican monasticism. Two points struck me in particular.
First, the monastic orders are one of the Episcopal Church’s best-kept secrets—and they shouldn’t be… Those of us who have experiences with them need to talk about them and invite other people to learn about them too.
Second, I confess that in the past I’ve sometimes considered the Anglican orders to be something less than the Roman ones—that the Roman ones were somehow more real or authentic. But the lives and commitments of modern Anglican monastics are no less real and no less earnest than those of Roman monastics.
Today I’d like to lift up in particular three groups who have influenced me and who have taught me about the monastic heart of Anglicanism:
Those of us who are devoted to the Daily Office and to the Benedictine way of life in general owe it to ourselves to not just be in conversation with books. And, as great as blogs and blog communities are, even they are no substitute for actually spending time absorbing the monastic spirit from those who have really committed to living that way. Look some of these up. Look over the full range, see who’s near you, and start making some connections.