tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.comments2023-10-23T12:09:50.512-04:00 Clergy ConfidentialTim Schenckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13913584491460599491noreply@blogger.comBlogger1792125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-65571531764420828472021-12-03T19:37:33.090-05:002021-12-03T19:37:33.090-05:00Thank you, Father Tim. This is lovely.Thank you, Father Tim. This is lovely.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03782739221634284274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-87775868074554346282018-05-03T07:32:52.102-04:002018-05-03T07:32:52.102-04:00I don't know if your theology would allow this...I don't know if your theology would allow this, but to me, God has made us in such a way that we can and often do let pets deep into our hearts. I am hoping that because God made us that way, he will allow pets in heaven. There are some critters I hope to see again. Why would He have created me such if there are none? Only hopes and questions at this stage.Gale Greyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07197264797362322629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-78557682739725295082018-04-04T13:12:32.952-04:002018-04-04T13:12:32.952-04:00Our prayers are lifted for Ben and also for you, B...Our prayers are lifted for Ben and also for you, Bryna and Zach at this time of trial. Hopefully this Easter Season with its blessings and warmth will bring healing to Ben! Love, Fred and Helen Miller and Family<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03150527181281440601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-41956027666173500392018-03-29T08:03:42.943-04:002018-03-29T08:03:42.943-04:00Oh, no! Altar Guild members mad at me! Nothing sca...Oh, no! Altar Guild members mad at me! Nothing scarier. (and thanks for EVERYTHING you're doing this week - we literally couldn't pull off Holy Week without you).Tim Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13913584491460599491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-41956670471884511662018-03-29T01:35:30.717-04:002018-03-29T01:35:30.717-04:00Fr. Tim, this is very funny, enjoyed it, but why n...Fr. Tim, this is very funny, enjoyed it, but why nothing about the altar guild. Seven services in a week -RED & palms..then no hangings nor greenery...then WHITE and candles and flowers galore...with multiple Eucharists set up /clean up including enough wine and hosts for the twice a year crowd.<br />And yet the ECW gets mentioned? "we are not amused"The Altar Guild of St. James' Episcopal Churchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14735333688636243216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-87588754716074130442018-02-22T11:46:58.722-05:002018-02-22T11:46:58.722-05:00Thank you so much for your words and eloquent insi...Thank you so much for your words and eloquent insights. It has helped me gain some vital perspective in these days of a nascent rebirth of the drive to enact common sense gun laws. prjuanmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14338846500155535085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-79079747189379325512018-02-05T21:17:12.556-05:002018-02-05T21:17:12.556-05:00When we lived in the Dominican Republic, I felt in...When we lived in the Dominican Republic, I felt inspired to make a chasuble for my priest. He had an "Advent" chasuble inherited from another priest in the USA that had an advent wreath appliquéd on the front. He also wore this during Lent. I wanted to give him a chasuble more appropriate for that season. Research gave a lot of helpful information. The fiddleback chasubles would have been much easier to wear in the heat and humidity of the Dominican Republic but was significantly beyond my sewing skills. A woman from New England guided me into making a chasuble shorter both on length and width, following the general "poncho" style that seems popular these days. I really believe it is the current heating and cooling systems of our churches that allow for the longer lined chasubles.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037158912931287467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-32103121579054227172018-02-05T20:04:18.874-05:002018-02-05T20:04:18.874-05:00Reminds me of something I recently read by Ernest ...Reminds me of something I recently read by Ernest Hermitage Day of the Warham Guild circa 1928:<br /><br />"The eucharistic vestments were not derived from the vestments of the Jewish priesthood. They were not the invention of the Christian priesthood. They are not ‘sacrificial’ in a sense other than that in which any coat would become sacrificial if by dire necessity a priest found himself obliged to celebrate the Lord’s Supper in it. But they are an inheritance from the dim past, a link with the Church of the catacombs and of the Fathers which we do well to value; they constitute a vesture which is both beautiful in itself and hallowed for us by age-long tradition.<br /><br />This tradition of use was not broken in England by the Reformation, but by slovenly neglect and unintelligent prejudice during the years of Puritan ascendancy which followed the Reformation. Nor was it even then wholly broken; isolated examples of fidelity to tradition and to the prescription of the Prayer Book may still be found. It is unnecessary here to recall the controversies which followed upon the restoration of the vestments as a logical result of the Tractarian Movement. It will be sufficient to say that it is now generally admitted that the Ornaments Rubric should be read as it stands, without the interpolation of a ‘not.’ Although the use of the vestments was declared illegal by the Privy Council in the Ridsdale case of 1877, the judgement was of such a kind, and was so keenly questioned, that those opposed to vestments have ever since been reluctant to raise the question again in the Courts, and the use of vestments has since that time steadily increased. In 1908 a sub-committee of five learned [6/7] bishops presented to Convocation a Report in which they stated their conclusion that the Ornaments Rubric cannot rightly be interpreted as excluding the use of the eucharistic vestments; and there the matter may be allowed to rest.<br /><br />All the vestments were at first ample, and therefore beautiful. They have suffered more from parsimony and from the shears of the tailor in the last three centuries than in the sixteen centuries which preceded them. But even in the Roman Church to-day there is a strong reaction against meanness and ugliness. There are many Roman Catholic sacristies in which no ‘fiddle-back’ chasuble is to be found, and no English ecclesiologist has written more strongly against such things than Dr. Adrian Fortescue. ‘Skimped chasubles, gold braid and lace,’ he says, ‘are not Roman, they are eighteenth-century bad taste.’"Brian Colemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17947303749215301648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-71101584949885995512018-02-05T19:16:39.785-05:002018-02-05T19:16:39.785-05:00Thanks for sharing, especially the photos. What a ...Thanks for sharing, especially the photos. What a fabulous gift. You are blessed.Rellinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00704195628706287631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-20575397070614630622018-02-05T18:14:25.837-05:002018-02-05T18:14:25.837-05:00Nothing to say but “Bright Blessings”. You got the...Nothing to say but “Bright Blessings”. You got the message art in the service of the Divine conveys over time. Cool.caraluluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11946831024438412612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-39117174049569662492018-01-27T07:22:42.749-05:002018-01-27T07:22:42.749-05:00Excellent tips. My best time for an AGM was just ...Excellent tips. My best time for an AGM was just under 40 minutes, actually (coughs modestly). Hereabouts we began to make it a tradition that the AGM was ON Super Bowl Sunday, which expedited things really well. We had an informal but vigorous competition from year to year as to which parishioner could rise and utter “imovenominationsbeclosed” fastest.... Ah those were the days. (She says from the depths of a contented retirement!!)Crimson Ramblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13020190454645032359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-33813252485688351452018-01-23T16:39:57.486-05:002018-01-23T16:39:57.486-05:00So super-charged (read: caffeinated) happy for you...So super-charged (read: caffeinated) happy for you. Totally perfect sabbatical plans and congrats on moolah from Uncle Eli and Aunt Lilly.Meredith Gouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16260267368064065843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-10282374486639687932018-01-23T07:00:54.872-05:002018-01-23T07:00:54.872-05:00It sounds exciting and just, plain WONDERFUL.
I ho...It sounds exciting and just, plain WONDERFUL.<br />I hope we’ll be with you on some of your adventures.<br />I, too, love coffeebettyChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03436884474664108136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-73449327639026033062018-01-22T16:41:45.461-05:002018-01-22T16:41:45.461-05:00Just dump Lent Madness on Scott for March. He can ...Just dump Lent Madness on Scott for March. He can handle it. An archnemisis should do no less.Tom Sramek, Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17891982131922786298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-34264332260395135702017-12-23T08:39:17.001-05:002017-12-23T08:39:17.001-05:00Thank you - this is a deeply wonderful post.Thank you - this is a deeply wonderful post.sjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12551810740304165456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-71837678717967503722017-12-20T17:30:32.810-05:002017-12-20T17:30:32.810-05:00This is a powerful article, and remarkable photogr...This is a powerful article, and remarkable photograph. It may be interesting to note that the saying on the back of the photo is in the form of a poem. <br />An alternate translation - slightly altered to keep the rhyme of the original - might be:<br />“Death to Judah”<br />The flag does write<br />“Judah lives forever”<br />Counters the Light.Chuck Kramerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09697695054661189351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-62728746281581427982017-12-20T13:26:13.166-05:002017-12-20T13:26:13.166-05:00Thank you for sharing this picture and story!Thank you for sharing this picture and story!Jeanettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13525631915760655502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-25563426470545561582017-12-19T09:37:25.505-05:002017-12-19T09:37:25.505-05:00Amen!
Wishing you, your family, and your community...Amen!<br />Wishing you, your family, and your community a meaningful holiday and blessings in 2018.JanetheWriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10939674499667620123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-86998184913538965662017-12-08T08:00:34.404-05:002017-12-08T08:00:34.404-05:00Very true, Joanna. Gives new meaning to "Whit...Very true, Joanna. Gives new meaning to "White Christmas."Tim Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13913584491460599491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-61680952896571619912017-12-07T22:28:42.845-05:002017-12-07T22:28:42.845-05:00Ah - Fr. Tim; something you didn't mention: a ...Ah - Fr. Tim; something you didn't mention: a Hallmark/Hallmark Mysteries and Movies title will never, NEVER have two people of color as protagonists. Sidekicks, bosses, assistants, reporters, carolers: YES. Main character??? No way, Joseph (Jose didn't get the part)!Joanna Depuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17363504078115199117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-76109652097064660082017-12-07T18:25:43.086-05:002017-12-07T18:25:43.086-05:00My version of Hallmark movies is the kids’ lit I r...My version of Hallmark movies is the kids’ lit I read over and over. Because of the promise of healing, perhaps.<br /><br />For years I read all the Narnia books in one long binge. Yep, near Christmas when long darkness makes the White Witch genuinely believable....caraluluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11946831024438412612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-72048312804092810152017-11-07T10:21:17.249-05:002017-11-07T10:21:17.249-05:00I have tried for years to get folks to spread out ...I have tried for years to get folks to spread out the activities, but with little result.<br /><br />Why must we have all those pre-holiday "Christmas" parties but nothing afterwards? What about an Epiphany party? Ha.<br /><br />And although the Easter season is fifty days long, including Ascension Day--a great time for an outdoor picnic--Nobody wants to touch it. They'd rather party for Mardi Gras.Jay Crofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01361207541690749158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-86783169703019275172017-10-12T07:57:43.851-04:002017-10-12T07:57:43.851-04:00This is just the kind of thoughtful commentary we ...This is just the kind of thoughtful commentary we need so much more of. Thank you.<br /><br />"We may not be able to solve the deep divisions in our country overnight but maybe we can work together to broaden the definition of patriotism." Right on.Elizabeth Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06618222542234920465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-54698907120575226312017-09-29T10:27:17.306-04:002017-09-29T10:27:17.306-04:00In the millions of words written and spoken on thi...In the millions of words written and spoken on this subject, I haven't seen one comment on this fact:<br /><br />Jehovah's Witnesses do not salute the flag or recognize the national anthem, and not many people are frothing at the mouth about that.Jay Crofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01361207541690749158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381472662149763328.post-51821485898881999492017-09-29T09:54:03.929-04:002017-09-29T09:54:03.929-04:00Very well expressed. Thank you. I too have been pe...Very well expressed. Thank you. I too have been perplexed by the hatred spewing from people's mouths and keyboards. I think each of us has a right to our opinion, but we also have a responsibility to not attack others for expressing theirs.Katrinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09656147607042777871noreply@blogger.com