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The Confirmation of St John the Baptist 3 Feb 2011 | 01:05 am
SS Mary and Elizabeth wearing episcopal chasuble and pallium Mosaic in the Basilica of Parenzo, Croatia, 540 AD At this feast [the Visitation], the Blessed Virgin performed two principal functions of...
Generous contentment 27 Jan 2011 | 12:12 pm
To a romantic imaginative mind at least, the Roman claims stand out in a very obvious manner, and the English deficiences are quite confessed and palpable. "Yours," they will tell us, "undeniably is t...
Pray for the Primates at Emmaus 26 Jan 2011 | 11:00 am
Pray for the Primates, both present and absent: O God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, our only Saviour, the Prince of Peace: Give us grace seriously to lay to heart the great dangers we are in ...
Anglican Spiritual Patrimony VI 26 Jan 2011 | 05:40 am
Spiritual direction is itself central to English spirituality, not only as pastoral practice but also as the source and inspiration of ascetical theology. The English system has developed through the ...
Anglican Spiritual Patrimony V 26 Jan 2011 | 03:04 am
But here and throughout, formal private prayer, at set periods and according to some plan, remains subserviant to habitual recollection. It is in the streets of King's Lynn and Norwich, on roads and s...
Anglican Spiritual Patrimony IV 26 Jan 2011 | 01:48 am
The foundation of Christian life is the liturgy, seen as both Mass and Office, from which flows personal devotion based on the Bible. Neither the Regula nor the Prayer Book have much to say about priv...
Anglican Spiritual Patrimony III 25 Jan 2011 | 01:12 pm
Flowing from these two characteristics, comes a unique humanism and a unique optimism. The harsher elements of St Augustine (regrettably the better known part of his ascetic), or of Carmelite and Cart...
Anglican Spiritual Patrimony II 25 Jan 2011 | 11:35 am
There is a strong pastoral insistence on the unity of the Church Militant, wherein a deep family relationship exists between priest and layman, monk and secular; hence the Englishness of the Gilbert.....
Anglican Spiritual Patrimony I 25 Jan 2011 | 12:11 am
An extraordinary consistency in maintaining the speculative-affective synthesis; the theological and the emotional, doctrine and devotion, fact and feeling. This, I suggest, is the deepest meaning of ...
During a time of leave-taking 22 Jan 2011 | 01:55 pm
I joy, dear Mother, when I view Thy perfect lineaments and hue Both sweet and bright. Beauty in thee takes up her place, And dates her letters from thy face, When she doth write. A fine aspect i...
