And there are modern “enlightened” people who doubt the existence of evil…
May the souls of the departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
And there are modern “enlightened” people who doubt the existence of evil…
May the souls of the departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
M called to tell me the news: after weeks of preparatory activity, Lil’ H has begun walking on her own! I fear for the cat who she seems to regard as a fun, mobile stuffed animal.
On a more cherry note, I positively and whole-heartedly endorse a new (to me) recording: Thou art My Refuge: Songs of Salvation and Mercy by Gloriae Dei Cantores. (It’s on Amazon–can’t get the link to work.) It’s a collection of 21 psalms using the classical Coverdale Psalter sung with Anglican Chant. Great stuff…
In other news, Fr. Director has indicated that he believes there are three almost-done chapters in the big box o’ crap. In delineating these three he has restricted the scope of the project to something more manageable. This is very good news…
I had a comment on the whole
Tanzania thing but had pretty much
decided to pass it by… Then the ABC’s address to General Synod came yesterday. Included in it is this line in reference to the Communiqué and its
directions/instructions/commands to the Episcopal
Church:
“Much here depends upon goodwill and
patience.”
…and that’s precisely why it will
fail. There isn’t good will and there isn’t patience. That’s why, at the end of
the day, the Panel of Reference isn’t worth a hill of beans nor the Delegated
Episcopal Oversight process. They begin from the premise that both sides want
reconciliation and are willing to do the hard work required and that’s simply
not the case.
Pray for the
Church…
On a more cherry note, I positively and whole-heartedly endorse a new (to me) recording: Thou art My Refuge: Songs of Salvation and Mercy by Gloriae Dei Cantores. It’s a collection of 21 psalms using the classical Coverdale Psalter sung with Anglican Chant. Great stuff…
In other news, Fr. Director has indicated that he is ready to speak words of judgment on the “big box o’ crap” that I hope contains something like a dissertation.
That’s not the announcement. That’s the official notice that the announcement will be brief.
The announcement is that Fr. Director and I had a momentous lunch where I told him that I simply can’t finish the dissertation given everything else going on–foremost among them my need to put food on the table.
Fr. Director’s response was–your first and highest calling is to your family, then worry about the diss. He’s so awesome…
He’s now in possession of my “big box o’ crap” and will read through what I’ve written so far (volumes, just fragmentary and unorganized) and we’ll cobble a dissertation out of that.
So–no, I’m not quitting, but the scope must be restricted.
That is all…
In other news, I will most likely be making an announcement about my studies–but it will be of little or no moment to the Anglican Communion.
Keep us all in your prayers.
Anybody heard about the deployment of Anglo-ninjas who will creep into our houses and churches and steal all of our Books of Common Prayer?
Me neither…
No matter what happens this week in Tanzania our liturgies and ways of being formed around the prayer-book will not change.
In case you’re wondering why +Minns, Sugden+, and Anderson+ (big players in CANA, Anglican Mainstream, and the American Anglican Council) are camped out in a hotel room next to the conference center in Tanzania, the good people at Stand Firm are assuring us that it is because they are team players just there to support their guys. In fact, some commentators said that they’d be horribly offended if these folks weren’t there because it means they’d be leaving their comrades in the lurch.
Absolutely.
One hopes that these stalwarts will find it in their hearts to forgive the weakness of others like +Wright, +Iker, +Nazir-Ali for not coming to support their buddies at a meeting to which they had not been invited…
And in other news on this frigid February day—my desktop thermometer now indicates an outside air temp of 68 degrees…