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Recent content by MKJ

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    Beautiful Liturgical Services

    From the same church, the Good Friday service:
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    Beautiful Liturgical Services

    It can actually be a little tricky to find Book of Common Prayer type services on YouTube - not all are comfortable with the idea of recording them. However, from an Easter Vigil in eastern Canada - this is a parish in a small city, very typically Anglican stylistically, on the high church side. :
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    What is your favorite Biblical idiom ?

    I rather like the idea of doing something by "the skin of your teeth" I also like girding the loins. I always picture a guy with his pants falling down yanking them up.
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    Pedo-Communion

    Well, here is the thing - if it isn't actually possible to separate them, then it couldn't be done at all. They would two parts of a single sacrament. The question of accepting the validity of a baptism isn't really relevant, other than the fact that it can be done shows that it is a separate...
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    Sola Scriptura - Scripture Alone

    I think you'll find there are converts in all directions. I could spit and find many former-Catholic Anglicans, and I expect many of our Orthodox and Lutheran members could say the same. "Protestant" isn't really a very useful designation in this instance - I suspect what you may mean is...
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    Pedo-Communion

    Yes, I meant older specifically with respect to maintaining the personal contact with the bishop. It's easy I think to see how this would happen - if bishops visited once or twice a year, infants would have in most cases have been baptized earlier, and the bishop could do his part when he was...
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    Pedo-Communion

    Yes, it's the same sacramentally. You can have the two separated in Orthodoxy, for example if a person has been baptized before becoming Orthodox.
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    Sola Scriptura - Scripture Alone

    ViaCrucis' history is just fine, from any perspective. You seem to have been spending much time of websites dedicated to giving people "debating" points. Quote mines of patristic sources without bothering to look at the textual and historical context, like the ones you posted earlier, are a...
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    Pedo-Communion

    I think the problem with this approach is that it is using something as leverage that in the end becomes a problem in itself. That is - the attitude to the sacrament is what makes parents, who otherwise might not bother, respond to the pressure to bring their kids. But ultimately it is that...
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    Pedo-Communion

    Confirmation by the bishop directly is the older practice. When that became impractical, the east delegated it to the priest. The west continued to have the bishop come, but not present for every baptism.
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    Pedo-Communion

    There aren't any barriers to children or adults who have handicaps receiving the Eucharist. And I've never heard with issues around confirmation either. It's more common now for some people to just never bother being confirmed, and I can see where that might lead to a decision by parents not...
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    Pedo-Communion

    Unfortunately I think that is common. It's the parents I think that are most interesting, that they do not come - I think in most groups in the west, young people go through a time when they explore other things, or go off to other places and aren't very settled. But why don't the parents show up?
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    The Scriptures: What do you accept, what do you reject, and why?

    Well, a healing is the restoration of a living things' nature, as is coming back to life. Conception, the beginning of life, is also proper to nature - it is a principle of nature found in its most complete form in the divine life. Miracles like the loaves and fishes are about food becoming...
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    Pedo-Communion

    I can see that it might cause some issues, actually. Just questions would be easy enough to deal with, but what would a priest say when a parent finds out kids in other Catholic Churches are allowed to commune, while theirs aren't? I can see it getting dicey if the only answer was a different...
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    Pedo-Communion

    Mark, I have to ask if you choose to read things into posts deliberately. I've never suggested that education is a bad thing. You yourself have said that the parents are NOT interested in education - they need to be bullied into it by making it a requirement to have the sacrament, and then...
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