tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post178980025035455688..comments2024-03-24T15:19:06.377-04:00Comments on The Continuum: Saint Andrew November 30Fr. Robert Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-16908360176291175062009-12-01T08:06:04.039-05:002009-12-01T08:06:04.039-05:00Very sad post, Canon. It is a shame that the pari...Very sad post, Canon. It is a shame that the parishes where you learned the faith are now empty.<br /><br />I wish I had an informed opinion about what we could do to live--not just preach--the ancient faith, but I'm afraid that I am an ignoramus.<br /><br />Perhaps the only thing we can do is make like the missionaries of old, know that we are in hostile pagan land, and just try to show what it means to "live Christ Jesus" by our example. But, I'm afraid, that the modern pagan mind is so warped, that humility and charity are construed as hypocrisy and hate.<br /><br />In the end, I suppose that all you can do is, by the grace of God, take care of the flock entrusted to you, come hell or high water. Nothing else matters but their souls.RC Colanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-84479657968684359602009-11-30T20:16:12.972-05:002009-11-30T20:16:12.972-05:00I was pierced to the heart about your comments on ...I was pierced to the heart about your comments on building a church without making true converts. Is this not precisely what the Episcopal Church in the United has done and what the Church of England has allowed to happen? In my travels in both this country and the British Isles, I have only too frequently found places where the folks in actual control of the local parish, if not of the local diocese, were people with out any real faith God. <br /><br />Worse, I look back at the parishes where my teen years were spent so happily in learning Anglicanism only to find that they are now all but empty buildings from which what was once their glory has vanished as if it had never been, parishes where once the daily offices were always said and a daily eucharist a prominent part of the parish's life which now have only a couple of celebrations on a Sunday and a single midweek service. Would you, could you possibly find among those who yet worship there even one who would die for love of our Lord and for spreading of his faith? I fear not.<br /><br />Instead we have seen all of their efforts, such as it is, devoted to political issue on the left side of the aisle while any real love of Jesus or obedience to what he taught has become immensely unpopular and almost reviled. Indeed, our old church seems now devoted not to loving the world, but in finding someone to stomp.<br /><br />I know that Bishops Morse and Mote both believed that they could keep that from happening among us by making all who called themselves Anglicans into the most spikey of Anglo-papalists, but that didn't seem to work either. It simply shoved a fair number of Evangelical and old High Church Anglicans completely out of the Continuum. So what can we do to maintain and spread the faith which was not simply that of the English reformation, but that which was originally brought to the British Isles long before Augustine and little group of Roman monks arrived to preach the faith? And not just preach it, but actually live it? <br /><br />I have my answers but I, in the fashion of the Caroline divines, would like to hear those of others.''<br /><br />Veriword: anodysa<br />Veriword: trolelCanon Tallishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05182884929479435751noreply@blogger.com