In comparing the eighth-century Ordo XI with the earlier Gelasian Sacramentary that reflects sixth-century liturgical practice, a conflicting tendency is apparent. On the one hand, the eighth-century liturgical revisers show their reluctance to discard venerable rituals and prayers, which terminates in ritual conflation and elaboration.
Two more responses to the Presiding Bishops pastoral letter to the Episcopal Church. One from Integrity and one from the Chicago Consultation.
They are for it. At least as pertains to LGBT persons.
More reactions to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori’s response to the Pentecost letter by Archbishop Rowan Williams.
Archbishop Fred J. Hiltz addressed the 2010 General Synod of the Anglican Church in Canada. Here is what he has to say about their mutual discernment about human sexuality, the Anglican Covenant and Canterbury’s Pentecost letter.
Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix ministers where the city’s oldest Hispanic barrio meets the first Anglo suburbs and so lives in the center of the debate over immigration in Arizona.
I know what is it like to be viewed with suspicion. I know the fear of having police stop me and demand my papers, and the terrors that descended upon me when those same police told me that my papers were no good, despite the fact that they were. I know what it means to be somewhere illegally, even though it was the right thing to do.
Cardinal Roncalli, a former Vatican diplomat enjoying the honourable semi-retirement of the Patriarchate of Venice, was elected John XXIII in 1958 largely because he had few enemies, and because no one involved in the election thought that he could do much harm; he was seventy-six and it was (rightly) thought that he would not enjoy a long period in office. After the last exhausted years of Pius XII, it was sensible to look for a man of peace who would give the Church a chance to find a decisive leader to set an appropriate direction for the future
At St. Peter’s Episcopal School . . . participated in a global outreach program, NetsforLife, through Episcopal Relief and Development.
Today’s young Evangelicals cut an altogether different figure. They are socially conscious, cause-focused and controversy-averse. And they are quickly becoming a growth market.