@Avalon_Vacation It's 100 percent real, given that's how canon law works, and that they were told prior to the consecrations that it would happen, and following the consecrations the DDF told them it had happened. There are some things that you can do that simply excommunicate you!
@DrFrancisYoung@liturgicalben I’m not sure. The Act of Uniformity may have done this, but by 1634 the rubrics in the canons were quite vague.
“[may have] Surplices, such Hoods as are agreeable to their Degrees. No man also shall cover his Head in any Church or Chapel in the time of Divine Service…”
The vast majority of the people in attendance were Northern Irish or clearly Episcopalian btw.
Good sermon at least. Celebrant wore a chasuble and the deacon/subdeacons had dalmatics and tunicles respectively. Actively forbidden by cofi canon law but whatever
@liturgicalben Within the diocese it's probably because Abp. Jackson is partial to priestly vestments. There's a few photos floating around of him in cope and at least one of him in chasuble that seems to escape my grasp.
Across the country it's also seemingly the case.
@liturgicalben Christchurch has always just been a little more high church than the rest. My home parish is still a surplice and scarf, same with other parishes in the area I've visited. The exception was St. Bartholomews but that's famously high church
Friends, for the wokeist philosophy that dominates today, empathy—feeling the feelings of the other and not harming those feelings—is treated as a supreme value. But while empathy is perfectly good and decent, the Bible teaches that love, not empathy, is the supreme value. And love does not mean, primarily, feeling the feelings of the other or not hurting those feelings; it means willing the good of the other—and that can be, as Dostoevsky said, “a harsh and dreadful thing.”
@dogslovecranmer I felt like this when I was Roman Catholic but I learned quickly that it was not only HARD to write a sermon in general but it was very hard to write a good one.
It gave me a newfound appreciation for our priests though
@HeloiseDePierre After a brief google search this guy just seems like the typical ex-gay movement, AKA the "I repress my sexuality for money even though this industry has a body count" movement, sort.