Yes, I know, Corpus Christi was supposed to be yesterday, but our bishops say it should be celebrated on Sunday. I’m not going to go on a sniffy rant about how I think it should be kept on Thursday and we’re dumbing down the religions etc. etc. Life’s too short. It’s Sunday and we’ll observe it on Sunday. But coming in to school this morning I was listening to Catholic radio with several priests commenting on their own experience of... Read more
Guest blogger Ecclesiastical fashionista, Mantilla Amontillado opines about matters sartorial. OK. I notice sometimes the priests wear lace. Sometimes they don’t. Let’s be honest. Nowadays it’s a little bit, you know, suspicious. Some people say, ‘Real men don’t wear lace.’ People think the men who are wearing lace are maybe pansies. I know what that is like hon. Believe me, the fashion world is full of men like that. I don’t have any time for them. It’s always, “Darling this... Read more
St Barnabas is the unofficial patron of convert clergy. (Along with famous convert clergy like St Cuthbert Mayne, St Edmund Campion, Cardinal Newman) You may remember that St Barnabas was the one who saw the new convert Saul as an asset, not a threat. Led by the Holy Spirit, Barnabas trusted Saul and realized his great potential for the church. Convert clergy have many problems when they decide to leave their ministry, their church, their people in order to become... Read more
Fr. Lang writes here on the transcendental quality of Beauty. Read more
In the last post I wondered aloud why more Anglicans had not taken up the Vatican’s offer of the Anglican Use Liturgy, married clergy and full communion with Rome. An Anglican priest took the time to comment, and I post his comment below in full. The comments are articulate and express pretty clearly the point of view that I believe most Anglicans would take. (Although because the Anglican communion is very diffuse and varied there are also many Anglicans who... Read more
Let me speak from the heart. I was an Anglican for fifteen years: for most of that time I was an Anglican in England, first a theological student, then a priest. My visit this weekend to Church of the Atonement, San Antonio, made me feel nostalgic for those days, and for the great traditions of the Anglican Church. When I go on to the Anglo-Catholic blogs like Anglican Wanderings and others I feel even more nostalgia for the Anglican Church... Read more
Guest blogger, The Rev’d Humphrey Blytherington, Vicar of St Hilda’s Little Snoring and All Saints’, Great Snoring weighs in on matters Anglican… Down at the Goose and Garter the other evening one of the lads asked a bit of a sticky question about the Anglican Church. They’re just an ordinary group of hearty menfolk, but they do come up with some corkers from time to time. “Say, Vicar, What do you make of this new Anglican bishop who is a... Read more
(Click to enlarge) …on earth as it is in Heaven Read more
For all the latest news and intelligent comment we go now to our guest blogger, MSM journalist, Todd Unctuous. Yesterday in Germany, which is a country in Europe, President Barack Obama paid a courageous visit to a concentration camp where millions of innocent people were killed by a ruthless regime. Laying a single white rose on a memorial stone, the President was solemn as he paid tribute to the millions who were killed by a regime that sanctioned murder. This... Read more
Charles Lwanga was the head of King Mwanga’s household in Uganda in the 1880s. King Mwanga was a notorious sodomite and kept a household of boys and young men for his pleasure. When his Christian steward, Joseph Mkasa rebuked him, King Mwanga had him beheaded. Charles Lwanga stepped up and tried to protect the boys at court and instruct them in the faith. Eventually the king found out what was going on and ordered them all to be killed. The... Read more
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
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