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    Sunday worship

    Anyone else doing anything in place of Sunday worship? What do you do? I do not actually do anything additional, although I offer prayers and intercessions and psalms daily. I don't really know what to add. But my devotions take on a different feel now that that's all I do. In a way, I am...
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    A Small Rant

    This is a little rant I've had before. For years now there has been an Episcopal clergy person in my life who will not stop pressuring me to become a monk. I cannot become a monk while in debt, nor do I want to, and having given it quite a lot of thought, I do not feel called. This same...
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    Centering Prayer

    I am interested in others' perspectives on Centering Prayer, as this is something I was taught in my Episcopal parish but stopped practicing. As far as it goes, what I was taught was acceptable, I think, with the goal to rest with an awareness or acknowledgement of God's presence. However, I...
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    A Transition

    I am posting to inform the members of the forum that, after prayer and thought, I have once again regularized my status in the Catholic Church by confession, although in many respects I am still culturally Anglican. I would like to continue fellowship primarily within the Anglican forum, as I am...
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    He passed

    My great grandfather passed over on January 2nd. He had the happy and holy transition I prayed for. I did not pretend he wasn't dying, though this seems to have made at least one person uncomfortable. Rather, I told him everything I wanted to say, and he returned the favor. I told him I was...
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    Prayer without ceasing

    Do you strive to cultivate prayer without ceasing? What is your method? My great grandmother, from a Holiness background, taught me as a child to pray throughout the day, even between math problems in school work, to pause and say, "Jesus! Jesus!" I pray at structured times mostly, and also...
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    Other Religious Traditions You Value?

    In some online spaces I've frequented, I have a sense of dislike because of their triumphalism and arrogance. I don't believe religion is an indifferent matter, that said. It's just that I have a conviction borne out by my sense of scripture, tradition, and the wondrous love of God that God is...
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    Thoughts on Faith & Works

    XI. Of the Justification of Man. We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we are justified by Faith only, is a most wholesome Doctrine, and very full of comfort, as more...
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    Advent Observations

    How do you observe Advent? Though on my present schedule it is too stressful for me to keep the Daily Office, I still observe shorter devotions based on the Divine Office, and of course at this time of year the devotions reflect Advent. I keep some longer devotions based on a brieviary as...
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    Good works prior to justification

    I understand that good works do not merit salvation. Only Christ can do that. However, what is the status of good works in the eyes of God prior to justification? Do the good works of an unjustified woman or man still deserve the wrath and punishment of God? I'm looking forward to hearing...
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    Four or Seven Councils?

    Is there any consensus on how many councils are accepted in Anglicanism? I always hear four or seven, or sometimes four and conditional acceptance of the latter three. It's not often mentioned, but there were schisms prior to 1054, and the only councils accepted by everyone as ecumenical (among...
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    Eternal Father Prayer (Divine Mercy Chaplet)

    I have an interest in this topic as I was in the past confirmed into the Catholic Church and distressed to have the Divine Mercy Chaplet imposed on me as a penance. The topic is now for me mostly an intellectual curiosity since I returned to Anglicanism where this prayer is uncommon. The...
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    Receiving the eucharist in non-Anglican contexts

    I have a few guidelines I go by when considering receiving the Eucharist in non-Anglican contexts. For one, I want to know that I'm generally welcomed to receive such that I won't cause scandal by partaking. In some contexts the welcome is ambiguous, but I don't want to cause scandal, and I...
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    The Place of Mysticism in Anglicanism

    As with many things Anglican, I expect to get different answers from you all. Complicating the issue is that "mystic" and "mysticism" can be nebulous terms themselves. I hope to hear from how Anglicans personally intuit and think about these matters and perhaps we will get a sense of an...
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    Definition of Christian

    I am familiar with implicit or hidden Christians, but that's not what I'm talking about here. How do we define which churches and theological systems are Christian? Most would define Jehovah's Witnesses, Unitarians, Mormons, and Oneness Pentecostals (my faith of origin) outside Christianity...
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    Fasting & Hospitality

    My immediate family has had a reunion for the first time in approximately 20 years, and my family is not Anglican. Dad was feeling hurt when he learned I am not eating certain foods over Lent. I compromised and had a small dish with foods I would normally abstain from. When food is offered in...
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    Religious Freedom

    Yet another issue I've discussed with my Catholic friend is that of religious freedom in society. He believes that a right to religious freedom is very liberal and incoherent because there cannot be a right to be wrong, and he would have no problem with say, making Jews practice their religion...
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    Proving the Existence of God and Objective Morality

    I have a Catholic friend who has influenced my beliefs and thought patterns, and I appreciate him. However, he is obsessed with proving the existence of God and of objective morality by way of philosophical argumentation and making sure that I and everyone else agrees with his arguments and...
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    Lenten Reading

    Anyone planning on reading anything special for Lent? I am planning to read the book of Job.
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    The Schism

    I often hear triumphalists loudly and with apparent glee proclaiming that the only reason the Church of England broke with Rome is King Henry's divorce. On the other hand Anglican clergy tell me that was merely the straw that broke the camel's back and that serious tensions already existed...