Miserable_Offenders

Discussing theology, culture, and the church while drawing from classical Anglican sources.

[The Company at St Anne’s @A_MirrorDarkly]

Baptism requires water. No water, no baptism. The Lord’s Supper requires bread and wine. A cookie and a Coke are for the Sunday social hour and not Holy Communion. As the old saying goes, “Accept no substitutes.”

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[The North American Anglican @NorthAmAnglican]

"The beauty and poetry of the first two points of ACNA’s Fundamental Declarations is that they show us where we may encounter God..."
—Andrew Brashier
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[The North American Anglican @NorthAmAnglican]

"Therefore, the first point in the Fundamental Declarations sets the tone and affirms the authority held most sacrosanct by Anglicans: Holy Scripture."
~Andrew Brashier
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[The North American Anglican @NorthAmAnglican]

"The ACNA Fundamental Declarations begin with a preamble. It prefaces the present by rooting the Declarations firmly in the past. These roots are not dead roots, but are firmly digging deep into the spring of life."
~Andrew Brashier
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[The North American Anglican @NorthAmAnglican]

"Hear the roar of the earth quaking and the angel descending. The risen Conqueror of Death removes the boulder! No gate shall hold Him."
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[The Company at St Anne’s @A_MirrorDarkly]

Hell is harrowed, death is defeated. https://t.co/Iuv7oU9XdO

[The North American Anglican @NorthAmAnglican]

"...
Down into the pit
Descends the One
Who made the depths.
All of Sheol
Looks up and gazes
Upon the Savior.
..."
~Andrew Brashier
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[The North American Anglican @NorthAmAnglican]

"Unfortunately, given the criteria just established, Colletti’s action could only be seen as blatantly improper, since the PECUSA no longer represents a proper ecclesiastical authority."
~Evan Patterson
@ruminatrixblog
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[The North American Anglican @NorthAmAnglican]

Latest in our symposium on "Anglican Reconquista."
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While no church is perfect, we have a responsibility to find a church in which “the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly administered according to Christ’s ordinance.”
~@Fr_Isaac_R
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[The Company at St Anne’s @A_MirrorDarkly]

“Anglicans have a broken compass. We followed too much errors old & new of our own making. We followed the broken needle & ended up stranded in Canterbury when New Jerusalem is beckoning us home. We have become stale and lukewarm, and Christ will spit us out.

We need an anchor.”

[The Company at St Anne’s @A_MirrorDarkly]

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[The Company at St Anne’s @A_MirrorDarkly]

The souls who don’t know Christ need us to be clear in articulating the faith & faithful in presenting it w/ our words & our deeds. Our children do not need us to leave a legacy, but a field bearing fruit. GSFA & GAFCON, put your hands together on the Gospel plow and get to work.

[The Company at St Anne’s @A_MirrorDarkly]

All I ask is commitment to the evangelion preached and taught, Catholic administration of sacraments, and faithful discipline to maintain the same.

Those are the three streams I see in the Anglican formularies.

[The North American Anglican @NorthAmAnglican]

"A disinterested reading of the Fathers reveals that while schismatics are not always heretics, heretics are always schismatics, since they separate themselves from the deposit of faith."
~Alex Wilgus
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[Anglican Compass @AnglicanCompass]

On March 3rd, we celebrated the feast of John and Charles Wesley, two Anglican priests credited as the founders of Methodism, but whose lifelong loyalties lay with the Church of England, from which they never formally left. The Anglican Church in North America recognizes them as “Reformers of the Church.”

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[The Company at St Anne’s @A_MirrorDarkly]

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[The Company at St Anne’s @A_MirrorDarkly]

“As fervent adherents of the Book of Common Prayer, they received ridicule from fellow students and curious outsiders and were members of the “Holy Club.” However, the name that we remember them by is “Methodists,” due to their methodical devotion to [the prayerbook life]”

[The Company at St Anne’s @A_MirrorDarkly]

Updated with content from 2009-2012 and the draft Rules for the College of Bishops. I’ve never found the adopted rules, so comment if they are publicly available and I’ve overlooked them.

[The Company at St Anne’s @A_MirrorDarkly]

Blame it on the historian w/in me, but the recent Reconquista debates led me to revisit some of the old College of Bishops statements throughout the short history of the ACNA. History is important. It is crucial in understanding how we got to where we are. https://t.co/H3ocSqLSxE

[Richard Tarsitano ⚓️ @GodRemembrancer]

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"And so when you put it like that, the ACNA is the Reconquista. TEC is the Almohad Caliphate. (And before you balk at the comparison, I know of at least one occasion where TEC sold a building to a literal mosque rather than allow the original orthodox parish to buy it back.) The ACNA is small. It’s got its back against the wall. A few dioceses have been able to keep their ancestral lands and buildings. Others have had to cede the territory as they retreated in order to live to fight another day. The ACNA is the orthodox version of the national Anglican body in the United States. It’s got problems, sure. There is a certain amount of dysfunction. But it’s still fighting, and the future is not yet written. I’m also in an optimistic mood for the ACNA right now. In the aftermath of the “Safe Church” cancellation, Bishop Julian Dobbs hosted an open Zoom meeting for people to ask questions. Someone asked how he was going to ensure that we don’t continue to have our fundamental values undermined in the ACNA. Bishop Julian’s answer was phenomenal. He said that A) the ACNA’s doctrinal center of gravity is already fixed and it is the historic Anglican formularies, acting as a faithful interpretation of Holy Scripture, B) the 39 Articles of Religion especially state our doctrine and reinforce the authority and integrity of the Scriptures, C) the Ordinal requires clergy, especially bishops, to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines. When is the last time an Episcopal or Anglican churchman in the United States made those sorts of claims in an official capacity? We might have to go back as far as Bishops Meade or McIlvaine. It’s incredible."