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Recent content by pmcleanj

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    Christian Holy Days/Holidays (Anglican)

    :wave: Naomi!
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    Christian Holy Days/Holidays (Anglican)

    The "Red-letter" days per the prayer-book are: Epiphany The conversion of Saint Paul Candlemas St Matthias Lady Day St Mark the Evangelist St Philip and St James St Barnabus St John Baptist* St Mary Magdalene St James the Apostle St Bartholomew St Matthew Michaelmas St Luke St Simon and St...
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    The Ordination of Practicing Homosexuals

    Personally, I think it's an attack of the evil one; who benefits every time a Christian community becomes obsessed with some idolatry, whether it is an obsession with sexuality of one sort or another, or an obsession with some particular churchmanship, or with materialism. Every so often the...
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    Quick Questions

    Hi Benjamin! I bagan attending church when I was seventeen, with even less background in the church than you had. I can remember that feeling of uncertainty and fear of doing something wrong, even though that was decades ago. You'll be fine: people are pretty accepting and no-one worries too...
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    Tasty Treats for a pre-Lenten splurge

    Oh, I suspect it's related to that little maple-leaf thingy up there on top of the post. I was a funnel-cake virgin too, until recently. She may never have seen sausage gravy served as part of breakfast, either. I can't say my first exposure to THAT custom was as pleasant as the funnel-cake...
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    Tasty Treats for a pre-Lenten splurge

    I never had funnel cake until I attended a small-town fair in the States a couple of years ago. The ultimate fair food here is "those little donuts" -- each donut about three centimetres across and cooked in hot oil before your eyes. I've been thinking bundt cake for the last couple of days...
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    Tasty Treats for a pre-Lenten splurge

    With only a few days before we should be practicing our self-discipline, what is tastiest food you can think of?
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    39 Articles should be mandatory!

    I don't know what it is about February, but it always seems to slow down in February. I don't post much on here any more for the selfish reason that I am not interested in the kind of discussion many of the other posters seem to be interested in -- and for the unselfish reason that...
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    Chrismation

    Recognizing that the breadth of Anglican practice means that any statement with the word "all" in it is bound to be false, I think "all" Anglicans sign catechumens and infants with the sign of the cross when they are baptized. MOST, but not all, of the Canadian priests I know use Chrism for...
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    Baptism, Communion, confirmation

    Our daughters received holy communion at their baptisms (age 2 months) and every Sunday thereafter until we started worshipping among Lutherans. At Saint Stephens a silver teaspoon was always laid out on the fair linen cloth for communing infants. The drop of wine and micro-fragment of bread...
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    Is Halloween dangerous to Christians?

    The lovely Anne carved a beautiful icon of Hallowed Elisabeth of Thuringia onto her pumpkin which we set out to light our porch on All Hallows' Eve. God made the Earth and the Sun, and God set the Earth on its axial tilt in such a way that we in the North and South have seasons marked by the...
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    What does one have to do?

    Repent, and be baptized. Seriously. We really do try to act like we believe what we say, and what we say is that there is only one Church and that Baptism is the means by which you become a Member in Christ, a Child of God, and an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven. If you're already...
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    Anglicans - Protestant or Catholic?

    No, Basil, the last post only says it all if you haven't been listening. "Protestant" and "Catholic" are not opposites. "Catholic" means "of the whole" and refers to the belief that the Church, which is the Body of Christ, is one undivided body that subsists across all times and places...
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    I think I am just not getting the deacon

    I don't know about Sir Timothy's church, but mine does indeed have a moveable low altar, on wheels, that sits at the front of the nave before the chancel. However, the good low-church parishioners would suffer great anxiety were anyone to do something so idolatrous as to put candles on it! They...
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    Home Altar / Icon Corner

    It's an interesting coincidence that the subject of prayer came up yesterday at Bible Study, specifically in the context that prayer is NOT something that comes naturally to people. And it's not something that the Church handles very well during catechesis. It did not come easily to the...
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