tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009348.post5597133142801004460..comments2023-11-02T07:47:10.433-04:00Comments on Vindicated: Easter WeekKylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641068117855718120noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009348.post-11285534861853345522008-04-05T06:19:00.000-04:002008-04-05T06:19:00.000-04:00Like a lot of Franciscans, I find this Dominican (...Like a lot of Franciscans, I find this Dominican (?) idea about the "happy fault“ (<EM>felix culpa</EM>) a little disturbing to say the least. It seems that sin was a necessary cause for our communion with God. Adam did have full communion with his Creator. It is his sin that made it necessary for redemption, i.e. a way to regain that communion. Some faulty logic in causality, in my opinion.<BR/><BR/>Happy Easter nevertheless. Thanks for the links to Kallistos. I listened to him as well.+ simonashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16819645160867324283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009348.post-12638991378171268672008-03-28T23:39:00.000-04:002008-03-28T23:39:00.000-04:00C. S. Lewis got a little too excited about the ran...C. S. Lewis got a little too excited about the ransom metaphor too. It structures (and distorts, unfortunately) the chapters about deep and deeper magic in LLW.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009348.post-63035786410991373392008-03-28T13:05:00.000-04:002008-03-28T13:05:00.000-04:00That may well be, Josh. I'm not very much a fan of...That may well be, Josh. I'm not very much a fan of Anselm's contributions as I understand them. Maybe I'll sort it out a bit more some day. Blessed Eastertide!<BR/><BR/>Father Rhodes, I think that's very well said, and I appreciate the reminder. We're finishing up our Anglican Catechesis course this time around, and we have a liturgy professor teach the session on worship and sacraments. He always emphasizes the role of the Letter to the Hebrews in our thinking about the liturgy - that we worship in and with Christ, the true "worship leader." <BR/><BR/>The Tenebrae service didn't have any part of BCP liturgy; it was planned entirely by South Elkhorn, with our own priest assisting in black cassock. Choir dress, you migh say, as there was no celebration of Holy Communion. Indeed there could not have been because of our theology of ministry and the strictures of canon law.Kylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14641068117855718120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009348.post-11200885103568439992008-03-28T12:15:00.000-04:002008-03-28T12:15:00.000-04:00Kyle,Just curious...Did you share the Tenebrae ser...Kyle,<BR/><BR/>Just curious...<BR/><BR/>Did you share the Tenebrae service in addition to the Proper Liturgy for Good Friday?<BR/><BR/>I've been pleasantly surprised that, having laid the foundation as best as I was able during Lent (and the rest of the year, really) my tiny congregation (worships about 40-45 on Sunday) has, for both years I've celebrated Easter with them, responded very well to the Triduum--averaging around 30-35 each of the three days (and then kicking up near 100 on the Sunday of the Resurrection).<BR/><BR/>I spent a lot of time teaching about how it's really not three "special services", but one three day long liturgy--hence no blessing or procession out on Thursday, no entrance rite in, nor blessing or procession out on Friday, and a procession (but not really an entrance procession with cross and candles) on Saturday night.<BR/><BR/>I also spent a lot of time teaching that in these rites (and hopefully if they get this here, they'll get it at every liturgy) we don't gaze on a performance as if at a spectacle, but are drawn into them, having our identities fused with Christ's... being invited at each turn to be (the Body of) Christ in these liturgies... washing feet, offering intercession on behalf of the world, kissing the cross and making it ours, dying and being raised at the font and celebrating the Eucharist...<BR/><BR/>They seemed to get it for the most part.<BR/><BR/>We spend a lot of time talking about Eucharistic Ecclesiology or Baptismal Ecclesiology, but in these rites we see these combined and suggesting something more... a Paschal Ecclesiology--where we grow more and more in Christ... becoming more and more what he did for us... for the life of the world...<BR/><BR/>It's certainly what orients my ministry as one of the baptized and as priest.<BR/><BR/>Blessed and Glorious Easter,<BR/><BR/>Father RhodesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4009348.post-24517118452270162008-03-28T10:32:00.000-04:002008-03-28T10:32:00.000-04:00The "ransom paid to God" could be a misunderstandi...The "ransom paid to God" could be a misunderstanding or misapplication of Anselm's <I>Cur Deus Homo</I>. <BR/><BR/>Let's not forget, either, that there are three dominant streams within our orthodox and catholic soteriology. It's not a simple matter, obviously.<BR/><BR/>I wish we could have been there to worship with y'all. But, trusting in the oneness of the Church, we worshipped with you from a distance.<BR/><BR/>-JoshJHearnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14938224568383367403noreply@blogger.com