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Deep NLP/ASR researcher, linguist, musician, ecclesiological enthusiast, documentation zealot. MSc '20 @Mila_Quebec . 🇺🇲🇨🇦

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Version 2.0 of the Scriptural BCP is live!📕🎉 There's a whole new interface to help you explore the Biblical references of the 1662 Prayer Book, PLUS new support for ✨commentaries! ✨ First up is the classic, Charles Wheatly's "Rational Illustration".

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Now that we're December, I need to bring to everyone's attention that there is a Hallmark movie following a woman who moves to a small town, crushes on the single priest but stays aloof, until this dramatic dialogue is exchanged: "But you're a priest!" "I'm an EPISCOPAL priest."

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Press P to pet the Epiphany cat

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John the Baptist, preaching in hell.

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(Would you know that it has this clerical plot from the promotional material? No you would not.)

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Clergy (laity too, but especially clergy) trying to well-actually WNC's decision to charge $7 for the Blessed Sacrament - "they have building expenses", "it's just the Christmas services"(!), "$7 is nominal", "the poor can go across the street" - should be ashamed of themselves.

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O God the Father, Creator of heaven and earth, Have mercy upon us. O God the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy upon us. O God the Holy Ghost, Sanctifier of the faithful, Have mercy upon us. O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, one God, Have mercy upon us.

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Give them the Oscar.

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For Holy Saturday, my annual post of the icon that goes hardest of all time: John the Baptist, preaching in hell. "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight!"

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Things the Good Samaritan did for the half-dead destitute man in the ditch: - Bound up his wounds - Gave him a ride by his own means of transport - Cared for his bodily needs - Set him up for several weeks in a hotel + billing for extra expenses Let the reader understand

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In your charity, please pray for the Church of St. John the Evangelist, my home parish in Montreal, as they face urgent pressure to reach a financially viable deal with the city to remain open. St. John's, an Anglo-Catholic parish, is also the sole Prayer Book parish in Montreal.

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Honestly, using excess consecrated communion wine to get somebody drunk and then sexually abuse them is one of the most evil ideas I have ever heard. This allegation hasn't gotten nearly enough airtime. Using the Blood of Christ to violate the innocent. Lord, have mercy.

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This morning we are sharing a story from "River," a survivor who alleges grooming by Mark Rivera when she attended @ChurchRez while a student at Wheaton College. CW: The following account contains descriptions of grooming and sexual abuse.

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"... which things the angels desire to look into." Happy Michaelmas!

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Family is Ukrainian on one side. Hard to stomach what's going on, but here's a picture of a woman from a family like mine in front of her restaurant in Washington DC in 1953.

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In some places we are nominally culturally Christian and in others we are thoroughly post-Christian, but a true and scandalous display of difficult Christian virtue is always a shock to the system that turns these out. Forgiveness & love of enemy are, still, scandalous.

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"One of the things that stunned me to learn was that the Covenant families had pulled together and paid for the funeral of Audrey Hale, the shooter,"

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I see you all bookmarking. Don't pretend like you're not going to watch it:

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At Home in Mitford

Hallmark Original Movie. A children's author escapes to small town Mitford.

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(It's called At Home in Mitford.)

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Christian Twitter is often divided but I think it's just beautiful that when the inevitable "if Jesus died by beheading/gallows/electrocution/lethal injection would you all wear necklaces of axes/nooses/chairs/needles HMM?" pseudo gotcha question comes, we all unite and say:

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The wait is over! Love the Prayer Book? Love hymns? Then you'll love the Prayer Book collects set for congregational singing. Metrical Collects from the Book of Common Prayer is out now. Check out what's in it! ⬇️🎶

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Metrical Collects from the Book of Common Prayer

The classical collects from the Book of Common Prayer, paraphrased, rhymed, and metered for congregational singing.

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@WNCathedral It is wrong to charge for public worship, especially the Eucharist, and there is still time to turn back from the egregious error of charging for it. Please make the most of that time and turn back.

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Hard to argue with this review.

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This must continue.

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But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

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A new project from @rpryor03 and me: Episcopal Chant, a liturgical chant database to help anyone get up and chanting. Interactive and downloadable chant settings available for free: tell your liturgist friends!

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Episcopal Chant: A Liturgical Chant Database

Interactive and downloadable chant settings of liturgical texts approved for use in The Episcopal Church.

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I'd like to make a larger, related observation about a particular vulnerability of ACNA that I believe is easily exploitable by bad actors: so many members are first-time Anglicans that they cannot realize when things are amiss. 🧵on "no, that's not normal in Anglicanism":

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Honestly, using excess consecrated communion wine to get somebody drunk and then sexually abuse them is one of the most evil ideas I have ever heard. This allegation hasn't gotten nearly enough airtime. Using the Blood of Christ to violate the innocent. Lord, have mercy.

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Reminder that the Diocese of Ft Worth, of notorious Anglo-Catholic persuasion, had Bishop Pope at its head, who then stopped being Bishop Pope & became Mr Pope when he converted to Rome, became Bishop Pope again when he returned to TEC, then back to Mr Pope in Rome one more time.

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four different bishops name Bishop Bishop

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Releasing a first edition of the Scriptural BCP: all biblical references in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, catalogued in one place. How much Bible is in the prayer book anyway? Click the BCP text to find out. #wat #anglican #bookofcommonprayer #bcp

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The Scriptural BCP

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A Friday thread: Allan Rohan Crite's illustrations of WERE YOU THERE WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED MY LORD (1944). Crite's images are in the modern setting, with Simon, Veronica, and the women in modern dress, because they stepped out to render aid, as we all should. 🧵

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Choir: Let us with a gladsome Beastie Boys: MIND Choir: Praise the Lord for He is Beastie Boys: KIND

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I will not dunk on the guy saying calling Jesus the lover of his soul in a hymn is effeminate, I will not dunk on the guy saying calling Jesus the lover of his soul in a hymn is effeminate, I will not dunk on the guy s

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Please pray for me, folks. Getting rocky out here.

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For Independence Day: an early cut-and-paste attempt at Prayer Book revision, at Christ Church in Philadelphia.

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John Donne 🔥🔥🔥

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Sean Rowe, the Presiding Bishop Elect of the Episcopal Church, on abuse & coverup in the church. 🧵 #gc81 "Eight years ago, I announced that one of my predecessors as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania had abused young girls...

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Enid Chadwick, beloved for her My Book of the Church Year, also illustrated a lesser-known children's Eucharist pamphlet called At God's Altar (1978)! The entrance, with vested angel (perhaps in deacon's dalmatic, as is common in some iconography): 🧵

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Episcopalians: if you would like to urge Washington National Cathedral to turn back from its egregious decision to charge a fee to attend the Eucharist at Christmas, consider writing the Dean based on this email put together by @pilates_pontius :

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Email to [email protected] (cc: [email protected], [email protected]) Subject line: Service Passes at the National Cathedral Dear Dean Hollerith, I am writing to you [as a...

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1 like = 1 linguistics or linguistics-adjacent fun fact

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If a history of your parish exists, read it, and if there's not one yet, start writing it. I highly encourage it because I guarantee, from experience, that there is Wild stuff in there.

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I follow lots of clergy On Here. Please speak up below if you're fellow laity (and others feel free to circulate)!

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SEVEN! Seven sacraments! Ah ah ah ah!

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Then we've got Count Immaculata, everyone's favorite Victorian Anglo-Catholic vampire. He teaches kids to count by going through the 39 Articles.

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In 1978, the Episcopal diocese of Fond du Lac partnered with English artist Enid Chadwick to produce At God's Altar, illustrated children's pamphlets for Holy Communion according to Rite I and Rite II of the new prayer book. A side-by-side comparison below.🧵

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📘📕📘📕📘📕 📕📘📕📘📕📘 📘📕📘📕📘📕 Not Wordle, just H1982/BCP1979 pew racks

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A nice counterexample to @benjamindcrosby 's observation that Anglican hymnals have dreadful Lent sections full of only "look at us fasting, Lord" is John Donne's argument with the Father, #141 in Hymnal 1982:

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An advent thought: I once helped someone with their (non-church) wedding bulletin. This not-really-practicing person, a classical musician, had happened to choose Sleepers Wake as her bridal entry music, because of its nice counterpoint melody from Bach. 🧵

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Imagine spending your one wild and precious life arguing that Actually, Jesus Washed Only His Disciples' Feet, Not The Feet Of Everyone, So Asking Me To Serve Others Is Heretical. Having seen it all, I am closing this app.

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The poster could be so much more intense and still not touch the intensity of the anger people have toward God for giving gifts to the wrong people depicted in this film, and you should all sit down and watch it immediately.

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I have never seen this movie but does anything in it actually justify having a poster this raw?

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Fun fact: Ding Dong Merrily On High was written in *1924*! The macaronic Latin and quaint archaic English ("let steeple bells be swungen/and io io io/by priest and people sungen") is a charming affectation only!

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For ALL the saints? In this economy?

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Once again, using consecrated wine to inebriate someone to sexually assault them is SO heinous that most of us couldn't have even come up with the thought. But that's what this predator allegedly repeatedly did. Teaching new parishioners about normal practice isn't optional.

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A key strategy for this predator was taking advantage of an Anglican custom that all the wine after Eucharist must be consumed. Alcohol abuse under the guise of piety was part of the grooming. Another reason for Anglicans to keep a close eye on alcohol culture in their parishes.

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When I write my book on the TEC-ACNA schism & its aftermath it's so over for you all just based on the names. - In 2024 WO came to a head in ACNA when Calvin Robinson- - The gay bishop? - No no, that's Gene Robinson. Calvin is a priest licensed in the Free Church of England. 🧵

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Anglicans believe that efficacious communion occurs when 1) a validly ordained minister (a priest) 2) using valid matter (bread, wine) 3) with the intention to do what the church does (consecrate it), does so. Political beliefs cannot make communion inefficacious. 1/x

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He said that I wouldn’t be supportive of my fiancée’s ACNA pastorate (that was untrue). When my fiancée pushed back, noting the godly and gospel-oriented ministry of the church I was in, Stewart called it an apostate church and said communion there was inefficacious.

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GPT commenting on Anglican affairs is an absolute riot

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Thinking of doing a small series on the basic building blocks of TEC vs ACNA polity as both bodies hurtle toward their major meetings this summer, as I've noticed both sides of the fence suppose the others must be essentially the same in governance but con/lib version. Not so!

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Lol! He Comes With Clouds Descending

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Me: Thomas you have to stop. Your prayer is too common. Your clauses are too parallel. Your litany is too great. They'll kill you Thomas Cranmer:

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What's your most Protestant-coded attribute?

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I am grateful to see WNC backing away from their decision to charge $7 for access to the Eucharist on Christmas Eve and offering refunds for those who have paid it. However, the buried lede (in their link) is that they have been doing this since 2009.

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That was never our intent, and we apologize. We made some changes, and there is no longer a required processing fee for any reserved seating. For more information on our processing fees, please visit

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Everyone knows that For All The Saints is the best hymn of the day BUT the reason it's the best is because of its full-throated affirmation of the bodily resurrection after death, which is missing from many hymn texts and indeed the popular imagination, send tweet.

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I can laugh at common inter-Anglican debates being relitigated & rediscovered in TGC for culture war purposes, but with my own piety being shallowly targeted here as "fanciful tales," I'm reminded of just how deep the anti-catholic streak still runs in American evangelicalism.

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Let’s evaluate our Anglican practices in light of our Anglican confession.

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My annual Holy Saturday post: John the Baptist preaching in hell. Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight! There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

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St. Stephen Martyr does really know what it's about architecturally.

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I'm from Dallas, know the Allen mall well, & am too shaken up to talk about it well. But a local bit of context I've seen underexplained: that the murderer was not "from Allen" is meaningless in Dallas-Ft. Worth. I've seen some reporting miss the point with it. 1/x

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Jumping the gun on the season, what's your favorite Advent hymn and why is/isn't it Lo He Comes With Clouds Descending?

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✨The Scriptural BCP has a new feature: reverse lookup by scripture! Query the Book of Common Prayer using books, chapters, and verses to see which rites rely on which parts of the Bible. #bookofcommonprayer #bcp #anglican #wat

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For me, among other things, it's *bangs pots & pans rhythmically* Vernacular liturgy is a VERY high good and so is robust congregational singing & hymn composition

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Something unfortunately dropped out from the American BCP and maybe due for a revival:

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New typology of the female altar server just dropped, and by new, I mean circa 1938.

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If you enter any church and ask for a priest, whoever is around should drop everything to find you one. If you need prayer, you will get it. You do not need to be a member of the church. For God's sake, you do NOT need to be a member of a church to get help in distress. Got it?

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@WNCathedral Thank you for making this change, but the core issue is not only that the fee is a financial barrier for some individuals, but that any fee to access worship and especially the sacraments - even one that is not a barrier, such as a nominal $0.01 - is unacceptable by definition.

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Love getting burned by S.J. Forrest, in verse, decades later.

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Real boon to hymn writers that "prison" and "risen" rhyme in English tbh

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Bp. Rowe appears to put his money where his mouth is regarding paring down structural pretense. #gc81

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Thinking about this passage from The Great Divorce about murder and forgiveness.

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Reminder that the Battle Hymn of the Republic is an Advent hymn.

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@owenbroadcast This is the same place with this to the right of the altar. I've heard reports that it is and is not directed at Mormonism, but not sure which is true. Still, pointed!

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And he's even saying it ex cat hedra.

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The Bishop says come to church!

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Fully writing out all music for the congregation is a necessary component of the Protestant literate ethos of the liturgy being sufficiently public/common and in a language understanded of the people send tweet.

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@askWallace @sinden Hot take: leaving harmonies out will only ensure that recreational singing stays dead in the one place it viably might be revived, to say nothing of effects on liturgical use. Signed, an alto with a pretty small range.

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One often sees St. John (Dec 27) with the snake coming out of his cup of wine, after the story of his being offered a poisoned drink but blessing it beforehand and causing the poison to come out. But here is a delightfully snippy dragon coming out of the wine instead. 🐉 🦅

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I try to stay in my own Anglican lane but well done to Bp Barron: "In the great work of evangelization, I want all the help I can get. I want the most convicted and intelligent Catholics. Period. But I cannot have anti-Semites, because they are, by definition, enemies of Christ."

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Bishop Robert Barron

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Friends, Christianity collapses in on itself without constant reference to its Jewish antecedents. As St. Paul put it, Christ is the “yes” to all the promises made to Israel. Read my latest:

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Anglo-Catholicism ≠ authoritarianism or clericalism. If someone tries to pass off some dubious practice of laity ceding to clerical authority and it smells off to you, but they say "oh, that's just our Anglo-Catholic leaning", don't put up with it. It's not.

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Please pray for an urgent private intention.

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@MadelineAndraia If I have to venture into the logic of the movie and demographic of viewer (always dangerous) I'd imagine it's the clericals.

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For the Feast of Mary Magdalene, a small 🧵 of artwork where she supposed, very reasonably based on the outfit, that Jesus is the gardener. (Wales c. 1503)

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Rectors and priests otherwise in charge (even bishops, should I have any reading), please consider including the Litany tomorrow.

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Now here's the one that really gets me: if you need to make a confession, you're supposed to sum it up in this little text box here. This is a five-alarm fire of Not Normal in the Anglican church or indeed any church that has sacramental confession.

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Please do not let anybody tell you or compel you, a lay person, to make vows to a bishop, a particular parish, a particular denomination, or a particular province. This is wrong, not normal in Anglicanism, and a perversion of confirmation. Be assured of the Holy Ghost.

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"Alleluia, sing to Jesus" was written by 29 y/o insurance salesman William Chatterton Dix while he was laid up in bed with sickness. I am laid up in bed with sickness and definitely not doing that.

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Honestly, I love this brief window where all of WAT is midnight mass posting. Merry Christmas! The Word was made flesh AND dwelt among us AND we beheld his glory, full of grace AND truth (in this economy)!

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@ThomasSujit "I have meat to eat that ye know not of" "Come this way sir"

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Them: "People wouldn't jump to singing Christmas carols early if there were good Thanksgiving music. There are no Thanksgiving bangers" Me:

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8 months

The genre of the suburban megachurch Christmas Spectacular often has an Annunciation scene with extravagant attention on the angel Gabriel, but despite evangelicals' professed commitment to Scripture, this genre rarely features any reply from Mary. In this essay I will

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Arlie Coles

2 years

At the Restoration, people had been without the Prayer Book for 15 years. Two men defended its use, becoming fathers of a commentary tradition that put the BCP in the hands of the people. Read the commentaries or Anthony Sparrow and Hamon L'Estrange at the Scriptural BCP! ⬇️📕

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6 months

I'm not done. After seeing morning reactions in this same vein, particularly from some parts of nonliturgical evangelical world, I am calling for an immediate introduction of liturgical footwashing into all churches until we figure out what is going on. 🧵

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Arlie Coles

6 months

Imagine spending your one wild and precious life arguing that Actually, Jesus Washed Only His Disciples' Feet, Not The Feet Of Everyone, So Asking Me To Serve Others Is Heretical. Having seen it all, I am closing this app.

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Arlie Coles

4 months

I am once again calling for the First Lunar Communion to be a feast day (July 20). Happy to draw up the propers.

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Jack Jenkins

4 months

FINE while you're looking at the moon today recall that the first religious ritual to take place on a heavenly body other than earth was during Apollo 11, when Buzz Aldrin, an ordained Presbyterian elder, took communion in the lander shortly before stepping on the lunar surface.

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Basic Anglican polity time. Lay members of a church elect a governing board called a vestry. Terms are usually a few years. The rector chairs the vestry and they together govern the parish. Vestry members are legal officers of the corporation of the parish. 1/x

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Arlie Coles

1 year

SCOOP: Tucker Carlson departure precipitated by reports of him repeatedly saying "alleluia" in the silent part after "Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us" at the fraction during Lent, sources* say * absolutely no sources

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Arlie Coles

1 year

Run, do not walk, from episcopal (big-E or little-e) churches that require more than this. Especially do not sign anything. Your "membership covenant" is your baptism. You can just show up and belong to the church.

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Karl Barth: Mall Cop

1 year

Church membership isn't really a thing the way some churches think it is. Beyond the sacraments, all that's really left is adding your name to the mailing list

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Arlie Coles

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A few thousand dollars is a drop in the bucket to the expenses of such a place. Charging $0.01 would be equally wrong. If you are clergy who is so caught up in temporalities of parish life - believe me, I do understand them - that you've lost the plot here, you need to reflect.

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Arlie Coles

5 months

If you are an Anglican of any stripe, you as a lay person, unlike your clergy, are free: you do not take any vow to obey any bishop. You can speak and act in ways they cannot. At your baptism/confirmation you take vows to God only. Rightly use that freedom!

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