"The Anglican Communion has no peculiar thought, practice, creed or confession of its own. It has only the Catholic Faith of the ancient Catholic Church, as preserved in the Catholic Creeds and maintained in the Catholic and Apostolic constitution of Christ's Church from the beginning."
- Geoffrey Fisher, 99th Archbishop of Canterbury
Bishop Polycarp of Smyrna, martyred for Christ in 156
"O happy fault! If we weren't sinners and didn't need pardon more than bread, we'd have no way of knowing how deep God's love is."
- Louis Evely
"Avoid, like the plague, a clergyman who is also a businessman."
- St. Jerome
"Slander is worse than cannibalism."
- St. John Chrysostom
"Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living."
- Jaroslav Pelikan
"The Jesus of Suburbia is a lie."
- Green Day
"It's true romance is dead I shot it in the chest and in the head"
- Fall Out Boy
"Don't just adore the Eucharist, enact it."
- William Cavanaugh
"If you can be talked out of your faith, you probably should be."
- Roger Ward
"Don't ever deny someone the luxury of being human or broken. That is not a luxury you yourself can afford to lose."
- Sarah Cunningham
"It is better that the United States be liquidated than that she survive by war."
- Dorothy Day
"Wherever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure vanishes from the Christian Church. With its recovery will come unexpected power."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Friday, April 25, 2008 Saint Patrick's Monastery: More Monastic Values Stability. Submission only begins to make sense if people stick together long enough to know one another. There can only be safety where there is commitment – though of course its not a guarantee, and only in hell are we safe from the dangers of love (Lewis). We believe that as God makes us more like Christ – a priestly people for the world, we must be for each other, therefore a people who show up and listen.
Mission. We are a people gathered around the altar to bring Christ’s peace and healing into the lives of those around us. We tell and embody a story about the world’s true Lord by our question-posing behaviors. We will connect to the poor and left out, encouraging with creativity and challenge.
Hospitality. We will explore and encourage one another in ways to create physical space and relational contexts for welcome to others and offer the peace of Christ.
I’ve been writing about these things for so long in this space, I don’t really know what to say. I want us formed into a people who will carry on the ministry of Jesus: healing, teaching, eating and exorcising. Every time we say yes to a friendship on the basis of Christ’s love rather than our own benefits, or forgive a wrong, or show patience to people we could leave behind, we bring healing. When we tell a story about the world’s true Lord with our words and our lives, we engage in Christ’s teaching ministry. When we welcome others to our dinner tables, and just seek to be near people who need some strength, we participate in Christ’s work of forging Kingdom ties. When we choose to simplify our lives by refusing acquisitiveness or step away from media, we exorcise a few demons.
Kyle Potter, MTh (Oxon)
Catechist for Adult Formation,
Saint Patrick's Church
Missioner to Georgetown, Kentucky
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"The Church claims to be the most comprehensive human society there is - the new human race in embryo. And it claims this because of its belief that it is established not by any human process grounded in and limited by events, cultures and so on, but by God's activity." - Rowan Williams
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