Concupiscence (three uses in Paul) – pronounced ‘con-cue-pa-sense’, with a slight stress on ‘cue’. The second syllable is definitely not to be pronounced as ‘cup’ Gibbet – as in ‘the gibbet of the cross’. The initial letter is pronounced as a soft ‘g’, as in ‘jet’, not a hard ‘g’, as in ‘get’ Jesu –…
Trinity XII. September 8, 2019. All Saints’, Soddy Daisy, TN Saint Mark vii, verse 34 - And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him: Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. There are several great feasts in the…
In the Book of Common Prayer most references to altars come, not surprisingly, in the rubrics of the Eucharistic rite. Other references occur in the Prayer Book’s pontifical: in an initial rubric before each of the three rites of Ordination (for deacons, priests, and bishops); in rubrics to the Form of Consecration of a Church;…
Commentaries on the life and death of the late Pope, John Paul II, have tended to emphasize a few basic ideas. Almost everybody has agreed about John Paul’s profound world historical importance. His role in the defeat of the Soviet Union and its empire and his broadening of the Roman Catholic Church’s appeal through his…
In a very insightful article (‘An Unworkable Theology’; June/July FIRST THINGS), the theologian Philip Turner makes a distinction between the formal theology and the working theology of a Church. The formal theology is to be found in a Church’s Creeds, confessional statements, liturgical forms, and similar documents and statements. The ‘working theology’ of a Church…
I’ve recently begun reading a biography of Saint Peter by the Cambridge historian, Michael Grant (Saint Peter: A Biography, 1994). Its first chapter is a typical exercise in modernist question-begging. Grant makes the perfectly true and important point that the miracles of Jesus and Peter are primarily signs. That is, their main purpose was to…
Trinity IX. August 18, 2019, S. Francis’, Gainesville, GA St. Luke xv, verse 13 - And not many days after the younger son gathered all together; and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the…
‘Sentiment’ may be defined very simply as feeling or emotion. ‘Sentimentality’ may be defined equally simply as feeling about feelings or emotion about emotions. Sentimentality is a second order thing, a response or reaction to a more fundamental reality. A commonplace example is that love or being in love is a sentiment, while being in…
UMMISELO WOMTANDAZO WAKUSASA NOWANGOKUHLWA OMELWE KUKUTETWA USETYENZISWE IMIHLA NGEMIHLA EMNYAKENI WONKE ISINGENISO UmFundisi uyakufunda ngezwi elivakalayo sibe sinye nangapezulu kwezizAhlukwana zeziBalo zilandelayo. Xa ate ongendawo wabuya kokungendawo kwake akwenzileyo, wenza ngokwesiko nangobulungisa, yena uyakuwusindisa umpefumlo wake. UHezekile 18.27. Ndiyazivuma izigqito zam, nesono sam sihleli sipambi kwam. InDumiso 51.3. Sitelisa ubuso bako ezonweni zam: ubucime bonke…
Dr. Charles Stanley is a former head of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Dr. Stanley has a large congregation in north Atlanta and a popular television ministry of longstanding. While I have never attended Dr. Stanley’s church or watched his television show, my impression is that he is…
