I post below a notice of publication by Donald Kerr.... It is with great pleasure that I announce the publication of my book: Awakening a Curate’s Library. The Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839–1887), His Life, His Book Collection, and His Legacy to New Zealand. This book, published by the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New…
Clear Writing
Usually people want to convey meaning by writing and speaking. We write or speak to explain and express ourselves, to issue instructions, or to ask questions, and we seek to do these things as well as possible. I say ‘usually’ because there are rare exceptions. President Eisenhower would on occasion make his public utterances deliberately…
The Dismissal at Mass
This post concerns the Dismissal at Mass. Roman Catholic practice concerning the dismissal changed even before the liturgical revolution following Vatican II. These changes are reflected in the eleventh edition of Ritual Notes (1964), which reads, ‘The dismissal verse is Depart in peace whatever the season, and irrespective of whether or not the Gloria in…
Holy Innocents, a sermon
Holy Innocents. St. Matthew ii, verse 16 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had…
Anglo-papalism, Part II
My previous post on Anglo-papalism, now labelled ‘Part I’, mainly concerned the contradiction between, on the one hand, explicit or effective acceptance of the distinctive ecclesiological claims of the papacy and, on the other hand, continuation in Anglicanism. The point of that post was not to present or to evaluate Roman Catholic claims but to…
Anglo-papalism, Part I
I was recently asked what ‘Anglo-papalism’ is. I replied somewhat flippantly that an Anglo-papalist is an Anglican who wants to be a Roman Catholic while remaining an Anglican. I am reminded of Eric Mascall’s poem in Pi in the High about the Extreme Catholic. He says a Latin office (though he finds the declensions a…
Baptismal Regeneration
Sacraments ordained of Christ be not only badges or tokens of Christian men’s profession, but rather they be certain sure witnesses, and effectual signs of grace, and God’s good will towards us, by the which he doth work invisibly in us, and doth not only quicken, but also strengthen and confirm our Faith in him. …
Advent I sermon, 40th anniversary
Advent I. November 27, 2022. Saint Stephen’s, Athens. S. Matthew 21, verse 10 - And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Today is the 40th anniversary of the founding of…
The Clergy and Politics (revised and reposted)
The Clergy and Politics Part I Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon, advisor to Charles I and chancellor under Charles II, fell from power in 1667 and went into exile until his death in 1674. Clarendon’s life thus included two long periods of exile, embracing the Interregnum and then the years after his fall from power. In…
Canadian Church Congress 2011
Address by the Most Reverend Mark Haverland Your Graces, My Lords Bishop, Venerable, Very Reverend, and Reverend Fathers, Ladies and Gentlemen. We are not born Christian. We are made Christian, by baptism. I was made a Christian, the child of God and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven, in an Episcopal church in Niles,…
Anglican Catholic Liturgy and Theology 