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Tag Archives: Pastoral matters
The Desire for the Mitre
It is something I have found in the Continuing Anglican movement as in the independent sacramental movement in general. For those in the mainstream churches, it is difficult to know why everyone seems to want to be a bishop! There … Continue reading
Monastic spirituality in parishes
Doing my daily rounds of the blogs (perhaps when I should be in prayer), I came across On Silence and Sundays. It is a frequent observation that there doesn’t seem to be the slightest trace of spiritual life in most parishes, … Continue reading
Baptism of Sophia
Here in France, the ceremony of blessing and officially launching a boat or a ship is called its Baptism. It goes without saying that this term, also used for the solemn blessing of church bells, is taken in its analogical … Continue reading
Simplifying life
I have deleted a blog called The Stoutest Ship were the Frailest Shallop and transferred its contents to this blog. A little thinking about the question will bring out the simple fact that there are many blogs on the Internet … Continue reading
Clergy Killers – indeed
HT – Fr Stephen Smuts My attention is drawn to an article – Toxic Congregations – about parishioners who behave in such a way as there is only one answer – close down the parish. But it might not be … Continue reading
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Mass without a congregation
In my ‘previous incarnation’ as a contributor on the Anglo-Catholic blog, I wrote an article about the debated question of whether a priest should refrain from celebrating Mass if there are no faithful attending. There is a doctoral thesis on … Continue reading
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Secession, Accommodation or Witness?
Posting from the old English Catholic blog. * * * There is a striking article in New Directions – An Anglo-Catholic future by John D. Alexander and Phoebe Pettingell. To this posting I have given the three keywords these authors … Continue reading
Popular Catholicism
The Rose in the Cross blog is run by a person with whom I have had correspondence for some years. I feel I should be discreet about his name or religious pilgrimage. He eventually turned to the Hegelian and Marxist … Continue reading
Sarum revival and pastoral considerations
Sometimes we read things like this here and there. This one is from an Orthodox priest arguing his scepticism about the western rite: I guess I am ambivalent about the place of the Western-rite. I think the liturgical nuances of … Continue reading
Participatio actuosa
I have adopted a Latin expression – participatio actuosa – which, without taking the trouble to check, seems to be an expression used in the Vatican II constitution on the liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium. It concerns the roles of those present … Continue reading
The Blue Flower 