Today we watched the majority of "The Madness of King George" and I thought it was an excellent film. Some interesting things I noted from it, were George III's love for clergymen, and his comment at one point he referenced "the Liturgy of our Lord and served at the Lord's table" and used the title "parson" which all seems to indicate to me the Reformed/Calvinistic nature of … [Read more...]
The Undeserved Gifts of God – An Obvious but Important Lessen
There's nothing revolutionary in this post, just a bland old post about grace.St. Paul prays for the church in Galatia that they would:"know what the hope is of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints." - Galatians 1:18When we were praying the Liturgy of the Hours tonight at our CLM meeting … [Read more...]
Childermas / Feast of the Holy Innocents
St. Stephen is called the protomartyr, meaning first martyr, but today's feast day seems to call that into question.I first read about today's feast day in Charles Dicken's "Hard Times" (which I only got to about p. 10 in... but I'm still doing good in that course) it's today (according to my Liturgy of the Hours book), and I found it a fascinating feast.It is in commemoration … [Read more...]
Mass-ive Disasters, Modernism, and Tradition
"Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me and keep my ordinances (tradidi) as I have delivered them to you." - 1 Corinthians 11:2 (Douay-Rheims)After listening to a standard Pietistic sermon at my parents Baptist ecclessial community on Christmas Eve my mom - being the 'genius' she is - decided to bring up the Perpetual Virginity of Marriage. This … [Read more...]
The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony
I'm getting tired of pretending I'm an evangelical. My whole family are Baptists and while they know their bibles a fair bit, they are completely ignorant (save my brother) of Church History and Systematic Theology. So everytime we get together I mention something from history or theology or church history that goes against the Neo-Con Evangelical mold, and it causes a really … [Read more...]