“In friendship are joined honor and charm, truth and joy, sweetness and good will, affection and action. And all these take their beginning in Christ, advance through Christ, and are perfected in Christ.” – Aelred, c. 1150
Many Russians celebrated the close of orthodox Epiphany with a traditional swim in icy water:
NYT editorial on the Vatican; Received in the church via Skype; Opposing views on Tucson; Mary falls out of favor; Cain says Jesus was “The Perfect Conservative.”
It’s the Christian underpinnings of my view of evil, in a world in which we do have free will, and sin, which in all cases involves a choice, that makes it impossible for me to ever see those who suffer from schizophrenia as an embodiment of moral evil. Those who are so afflicted haven’t chosen their delusions and hallucinations; a stand-out even in the pantheon of dreadful diseases, theirs is an illness no one would choose.
“On the subject of primacy, each of us received a number of documents, ancient and modern, Anglican and ecumenical addressing the role, function and authority of this ministry within the Province and within the Communion as a whole. There is a real need for clarity with respect to the place and influence of the Primates’ Meetings and the nature of their service as one of the Instruments of Communion.” – Hiltz, on next week’s meeting of the primates.
Over at No Anglican Covenant there’s a new blog post by Ronald Stevenson, QC, the former Chancellor of the Anglican Church of Canada, entitled “Some
My sense is that many of the people who are for Communion Without Baptism, especially those who are not career theologians… aren’t trying to change our sacramental theology. Instead what they’re trying to do is to establish Episcopal identity and any negative effect on the sacraments just happens to be collateral damage.
On the death of Anterus, Bishop of Rome, A.D. 236, the brethren assembled in the church to choose a successor; but while they were debating who was the fittest person to fill the See, a dove suddenly alighted on the head of a stranger there present, and he was unanimously elected Bishop.