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The Feast of this day is the end of the paschal solemnity, and therefore it is today that the Newly-Baptized put off their white garments. But though they lay aside the outward mark of washing, namely, their white raiment, the inward mark of that washing remaineth in their souls unto eternity. Now are the days…

Do you refuse cakes to Jews, Hindus, and Muslims? Non-religious weddings? Do you only bake cakes for members of your tiny little sect, be it only 5 or almost 500 years old (such old)? Do you ask if your couples will engage in sex during Lent or other fasting times? Do you ask them if…

The miracles wrought by our Lord Jesus Christ were verily divine works, and they stir up the mind of man to rise by a perception of what is seen by the eye unto an apprehension of God himself. For God is of such substance as eye cannot see, and the many miracles which he doth…

I have been experimenting with useing the new site, Medium, for longer-form essays. I’ve just published one (about 4,000 words long) called Orthodoxy and the Celibate Sodomite. I’m still a bit too long-form, because the longer essays I see over there are about half the length of mine. But sometimes you need to write it…

I do not have an “official” definition of “The Culture War”.  I know it when I see it.  It’s all utter bullpucky of course.  Christians have no purpose or point in any so-called “Cultural War”.  We are a minority. Our Culture is the Kingdom of God. We save babies and widows, we feed the hungry…

After applying the use of “necrophilia” to theologies (see my previous post), the Feminist writers of the last century co-opted the word “biophilia” from science and applied it, as well, to religion.  A “Biophilic” spirituality (naturally, it would be “spiritual but not religious”) was one that was life affirming, not life denying, one that affirmed…

That ought to do wonders to my search results. The late Mary Daly’s Webster’s First Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language contained a number of interesting articles redefining words in common usage and inventing a few of her own.  She was known for this since words with the definitions were all creations of the Patriarchy and…

Blaming the Victims Christians in ancient Rome went to their deaths to avoid burning a pinch of incense before a statue of Caesar or the other deities worshiped in the Roman State.  A friend of mine, who is ordained in a “mainline” protestant body, said he didn’t think that would be an issue now: it’s…

Know, dearly beloved Brethren, that by the mercy of God, as we have been rejoicing in the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, so also do we announce unto you the joy of the Resurrection of the same our Saviour. Septuagesima Sunday will be on the 8th day of February. Ash Wednesday and the beginning…

Christmas The bells of waiting Advent ring,The Tortoise stove is lit againAnd lamp-oil light across the nightHas caught the streaks of winter rain.In many a stained-glass window sheenFrom Crimson Lake to Hooker’s Green. The holly in the windy hedgeAnd round the Manor House the yewWill soon be stripped to deck the ledge,The altar, font and…

O Virgo virginum, quomodo fiet istud?Quia nec primam similem visa es nec habere sequentem.Filiae Ierusalem, quid me admiramini? Divinum est mysterium hoc quod cernitis. O Virgin of virgins, how shall this be?For neither before was any like thee, nor shall there be after.Daughters of Jerusalem, why marvel ye at me? That which ye behold is…

O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster, expectatio gentium, et Salvator earum: veni ad salvandum nos, Domine, Deus noster. O Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver, the one awaited by the gentiles, and their Saviour: come to save us, Lord our God. A reading from the works of St Cyril of Alexandria In earlier days a life…

O Rex Gentium,et desideratus earum,lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum: veni, et salva hominem, quem de limo formasti. O King of the Nations, and the one they desired, keystone, who makes both peoples one, come and save mankind, whom you shaped from the mud. For our verse today, I want to reach back in to…

 Oriens, splendor lucis aeternae, et sol justitiae: veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis.  Dawn, splendor of eternal light, and sun of justice, come, and shine on those seated in darkness, and in the shadow of death. When Jesus said, Ego sum lux mudi, I am the light of the world (St John…

 Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel, qui aperis, et nemo claudit, claudis, et nemo aperuit: veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris, et umbra mortis. Key of David, and sceptre of the house of Israel, you open, and no one shuts, you shut, and no one opens: come, and lead the prisoner from…