The chief problem with the ‘three-legged stool’ analogy is not that it is untrue to Hooker or to classical Anglicanism. The chief problem is that while the legs of a stool are the same, the functions of Scripture, reason, and tradition in classical Anglican theology are all different. The three do different things and are…
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve: pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which are not worthy…
Bishops in the Anglican Catholic Church. Each bishop is assigned a number; his full name led by surname follows the number, and then is given the list of his consecrators. The name of the chief consecrator is in bold. The date of the consecration is given last. 001 DOREN, Charles Dale David Chambers;…
Metropolitans of the Original Province of the Anglican Catholic Church The first Metropolitan of the Original Province of Anglican Catholic Church was elected and enthroned in 1983 during a Provincial Synod in Orlando, Florida, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and Canons adopted by previous Synods. Prior to the enthronement of a Metropolitan…
Denver Consecrations (28 January 1978) and their aftermath The first bishops of the Anglican Church of North America, later named the Anglican Catholic Church (with ACNA kept as an alternate name), were consecrated on 28 January 1978 in Denver, Colorado. In Denver Charles Dale David Doren, sometime Archdeacon of the Diocese of Taejon in South…
ACC Episcopal Succession from the Anglican Communion The following bishops who were consecrated in Churches of the Anglican Communion in the days of its orthodoxy have physically participated in consecrations in the ACC: Albert Arthur Chambers (Episcopal Church); Mark Pae (Taejon, Korea); and John-Charles-Vockler (Australia). Haydn Jones, sometime Bishop of Venezuela in the Anglican Communion,…
Evensong, Forward-in-Faith/North America. 15 July 2015. Fort Worth, Texas (copyright retained by the author) Psalm cxxii, verse 3 - Jerusalem is built as a city that is at unity in itself. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. I was trained to believe that sermons…
Trinity VII. July 30, 2017. St. Stephen’s, Athens. (Father Athanaelos’s 18th anniversary of ordination) St. Mark viii, verse 3 - ...if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way.... In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Today as always…
Transfiguration. Saint Luke ix, verse 29 - And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Throughout the Old Testament the appearances of God to mankind have a double and…
[The feast of S. Dominic, August 4th, was Bob West's Year's Mind. Here are a few memories of Bob, Conn, and Susan West.] The Wests Robert and Conn West and their daughter, Susan West, were friends of many people at Saint Stephen’s. From the beginning Bob and Conn visited the parish periodically, and I visited…
