Monthly Archives: September 2023

Our cultural communication — if it can be called communication — is awash with vitriol and invective. Social media, particularly, is a tsunami of hate speech, not in the ideological sense but in the spiritual sense: speech that reveals spiritual … Continue reading →

Following is a personal reflection prompted by the recent exposition of relics of Padre Pio at the local Roman Catholic Cathedral. The Anglican Formularies, particularly the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, take a strong stance against the sixteenth century “Romish” practice … Continue reading →

Anglican Church of the RedeemerFr. John A. Roop A Homily at the Ordination of Jeremy Swaggerty to the Sacred Order of Priests24 September 2023 (Is 6:1-8, Ps 119:33-40, Eph 4:7-16, Luke 10:1-9) In the Name of the Father, and of … Continue reading →

Anglican Church of the RedeemerFormed Conference 2023: Male and Female in Christ The Cruciform Shape of Gender: Male and Female and the Cross of Christ Following is a talk I presented at the Formed Conference 2023. The Lord be with … Continue reading →

Anglican Eucharist theology is not monolithic; it ranges from near transubstantiation to near memorialism while typically not transgressing either of those boundaries. I find these words from the Second Vatican Council an interesting description of the Eucharist: “the summit toward … Continue reading →

I had the blessing of serving as altar guild this morning to prepare the altar for the Wednesday Noon Eucharist. As I placed the missal stand on the altar I noticed, for the first time, the engraving on it. Perhaps … Continue reading →

Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. The other things on the face of the earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for … Continue reading →

Matthew 6:14–15 (ESV): 14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matthew 18:21–22 (ESV): 21 Then … Continue reading →

I have no fully developed angelology beyond what is revealed in Scripture and handed down in the great Tradition. But, since Scripture nods (at least) to guardian angels and the Tradition explicitly includes them, I see no good reason to … Continue reading →

Holy Cross Day, 14 September, is a “Red-Letter Holy Day” in the Anglican Calendar, a day of expected, as contrasted with optional, observance. At Apostles Anglican Church we will observe the day at our Noon Eucharist and Healing Service on … Continue reading →