In which we (probably) conclude our section on Holy Communion! The Catechism Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Week 18 Week 19
As most of you know, earlier this month was our 7th Annual Diocesan Synod, held this year in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. While I didn’t see as much of the city as I’d have liked, I did eat quite a few good meals near our hotel. At one of these meals, during an early supper on…
We continue our discussion of the Lord’s Supper, and bring in what the Prayer Book’s prayers of consecration and the Articles of Religion mean for some of our Eucharistic theology. The Catechism Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week…
In which we conclude our discussion of Baptism and begin our discussion of Holy Communion from our Diocesan Catechism. The Catechism Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17
In which we continue our discussion on the Sacrament of Baptism, focusing on what is necessary for baptism to be efficacious and why infants can be baptized. The Catechism Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13…
In which we answer several questions from the students about baptism, including how Christian baptism relates to Christ’s baptism, the “necessary” nature of the Sacraments, and re-baptism. The Catechism Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13…
Frs. Isaac and Barry are ready for Rose Sunday Texts: Isaiah 66, Galatians 4, John 6 Today is the fourth Sunday in Lent, often called Laetare Sunday, from the Latin word for “Rejoice,” which comes from today’s Introit, a text from Isaiah 66 and Psalm 122: Rejoice ye with Jerusalem: and be ye glad for…
Text: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43. Though I had been raised 50/50 Episcopalian and Roman Catholic, in my teenage years and 20’s we were part of the Messianic Jewish movement, which usually shares basic theological assumptions with general Evangelicalism here in the United States. Since at least the 1970’s most of American Evangelicalism has defaulted to a…
Text: John 2:1-11 Today is the third Sunday after Epiphany, and we look at the final event commemorated in the ancient Epiphany celebrations: Jesus’ first miracle at the Wedding of Cana. Last week we talked about one of the most important events in our Christian lives that many of us do not remember: our baptisms….
Week 3 of our study of the Catechism of the Diocese of the West, an adaptation of the traditional catechism from the classical editions of the Book of Common Prayer, in which we discuss the vows made at our baptisms, how we become Christians, and how we grow in the Faith. Unfortunately, we started late,…