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A Call to Explore. Consecration of the Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Breidenthal as Bishop. Soup and Study with the Rev. Dr. Thomas Breidenthal. Columbus Deanery Listening Session. Soup and Study with Bishop Price. D-Con, New Bishop. Consecration of the Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Breidenthal as Bishop. I successfully submitted my admissions application to VTS by their May 1 deadline. The application was incomplete, however, and I'm still waiting on getting forms signed by the bishop (which one? So, more later, hopefully.
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An Elliptical Glory: Crowning Savagery (mid-week message)
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Fragmentary Glimpses of Grace and Mystery in an Imperfect Life. Thursday, August 6, 2015. Crowning Savagery (mid-week message). Fr Tony’s Midweek Message. August 6, 2015. Today is the 70. Anniversary of the destruction of the Japanese City Hiroshima by the United States’ use of a nuclear weapon. Three days later, the U.S. destroyed Nagasaki with a similar weapon. The ongoing firebombing of other Japanese cities was, in terms of overall sums, far more destructive and lethal than these two bombs. Accepting...
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An Elliptical Glory: April 2014
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Fragmentary Glimpses of Grace and Mystery in an Imperfect Life. Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Seven Stanzas on Easter (Mid-week Message). Fr Tony's Mid-week Message. I am in Prescott Arizona this week, to attend the week-long Credo retreat and formation for clergy. For my mid-week message, I am here sharing a poem that I came across from novelist John Updike. Seven Stanzas on Easter. 1960, John Updike). Make no mistake: if He rose at all. It was as His body;. Reknit, the amino acids rekindle,. Let us not se...
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An Elliptical Glory: June 2015
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Fragmentary Glimpses of Grace and Mystery in an Imperfect Life. Sunday, June 28, 2015. The Hem of His Garment (proper 8B). The Hem of his Garment. 28 June 2015 Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8B). Homily Preached at Trinity Episcopal Church. 8:00 am Spoken Mass; 10:00 am Sung Mass. Wisdom of Solomon 1:13-15; 2: 23-24; Psalm 30; 2 Corinthians 8:7-15; Mark 5:21-43. God, take away our hearts of stone and give us hearts of flesh. Amen. Though the text is by the 19. Draw us in the Spirit’s tether;. 8220;...
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An Elliptical Glory: June 2014
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Fragmentary Glimpses of Grace and Mystery in an Imperfect Life. Sunday, June 29, 2014. Proper 8 Year A. 27 June 2014 8 am Said and 10:00 am Sung Holy Eucharist. Parish Church of Trinity Ashland (Oregon). Genesis 22:1-14; Psalm 13 ;. Romans 6:12-23; Matthew 10:40-42. God, take away our hearts of stone, and give us hearts of flesh. Amen. 8220;God said, ‘Take your son Isaac, your only son, the one whom you love, . and kill him … for me. Danish existentialist theologian Soren Kirkegaard gives several. Episco...
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An Elliptical Glory: August 2015
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Fragmentary Glimpses of Grace and Mystery in an Imperfect Life. Saturday, August 29, 2015. A Chorister’s Faith. Homily preached at 11 am Sung Rite I Funeral with Eucharist. Parish Church of Trinity Ashland (Oregon). Bless, O Lord, us thy servants who minister in thy Temple. Grant that what we sing with our lips we may believe in our hearts. And what we believe in our hearts we may show forth in our lives,. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. Herb sang in choirs for more than 70 years of his life. A Chur...
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An Elliptical Glory: February 2015
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Fragmentary Glimpses of Grace and Mystery in an Imperfect Life. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Spirituality and Responsibility (Mid-week Reflection). Fr Tony’s Mid-week Reflection. February 25, 2015. Here in Ashland, we often hear the sentiment that spirituality is having a heart at rest in the oneness behind the universe, and mainly a contemplative effort. I am not sure that this is a sound idea. The great English mystic Evelyn Underhill wrote,. Consider how dynamic and purposive is its character. It mea...
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An Elliptical Glory: April 2015
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Fragmentary Glimpses of Grace and Mystery in an Imperfect Life. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. To Be a Pilgrim. (Midweek). Fr Tony’s Midweek Message. April 29, 2015. 8220;To be a pilgrim…. “. WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote [sweet showers]. The droghte [drought] of Marche hath perced to the roote,. And bathed every veyne in swich [such] licour,. Of which vertu engendred is the flour;. Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth. Inspired hath in every holt [wood] and heath. The 10 day conference is set ...
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An Elliptical Glory: July 2015
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Fragmentary Glimpses of Grace and Mystery in an Imperfect Life. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Quick Guide to Forming a Rule of Life. Wild Hares, Celtic Art Studio. A Quick Guide to Forming a Rule of Life. Fr Tony’s Mid-week Message. July 29, 2015. 8220;In drawing up its regulations we hope to set down nothing harsh, nothing burdensome. 8230; Do not be daunted immediately by fear and run away from the road that leads to salvation. It is bound to be narrow at the outset. Every Sunday, a couple times a month?
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An Elliptical Glory: September 2014
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Fragmentary Glimpses of Grace and Mystery in an Imperfect Life. Friday, September 26, 2014. Open thou mine eyes (Lancelot Andrewes). Open Thou Mine Eyes. Private Prayers") include the following words, in a prayer for grace:. Open Thou mine eyes that I may see,. Incline my heart that I may desire,. Order my steps that I may follow,. The way of Thy commandments. O Lord God, be Thou to me a God,. And beside Thee none else,. None else, nought else with Thee. Vouchsafe to me, to worship Thee and. We want to g...
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