The Continuum: June 2025

Sunday, June 29, 2025

SAINT PETER THE APOSTLE (June 29)

For the Collect, the Epistle, and the Gospel followed by the sermon preached by Fr. Hart at Saint Benedict's Anglican Church on the Feast of Saint Peter the Apostle, Sunday June 29, 2025, click on the picture below.

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Friday, June 27, 2025

PART THIRTY-TWO GOSPEL OF JOHN

In this video Dr. Kevin Hart leads us in a study of John 11:45-57. To go to the video click on the picture below.

Sunday, June 22, 2025

For the video with the Collect, Epistle, Gospel, and a sermon, you may click on the picture below.

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Saturday, June 21, 2025

After a bit of travel, Dr. Kevin Hart is back, and is continuing this study of the Gospel According to Saint John, in this installment covering John 11:18-44. Click on the picture below for the video

Sunday, June 15, 2025

SEEING THE KINGDOM OF GOD - TRINITY SUNDAY 2025

Click on the picture for the video with the Collect, Epistle, Gospel, and this week's sermon preached at the 10:00 Mass by Fr. Robert Hart on June 15, 2025, TRINITY SUNDAY, at Saint Benedict's Anglican Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Omelas exists

by Fr. Matthew Kirby

Recently I became aware of the Abrego Garcia deportation case in America, and this initially due to two conservative commentators' pushback against President Trump's actions. Their objections were based not only on the contempt for the due process required by the rule of law that was shown, but the intrinsic injustice of the treatment of Mr Garcia (and others). But looking into this then sent me down the rabbit hole of CECOT and El Salvadoran prisons more generally. I realise that Fr Hart has preceded me in discussing these events, and wish to add my voice to his, but also to discuss at greater length the situation in El Salvador, a country literally named after our Saviour.

The fact that there has been a crackdown on gangs in El Salvador is not the issue. Even the fact that membership of a criminal gang is effectively treated as sufficient for some imputed guilt is arguably defensible, based on a RICO-style approach. This is perhaps especially the case with gangs like MS-13 that usually have a modus operandi, internal expectations and even initiations which guarantee frequent murder, rape, extortion and more, causing a culture of violence and fear to be imposed upon their host communities.

However, the fact that young men often are coerced into membership initially, including via threats to their family, should still affect the degree and imputability of guilt in any fair trial. But what if trials are indefinitely delayed during incarceration, and the trials themselves are rushed travesties? Those questions bring us closer to the real issues.