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[frustratedchoirboy]

I'm taking a break from this website and I'm not sure how long I'll be gone, prayers would be appreciated. It's not anything to worry about, I've just taken a step back and realized how much unproductive time I spend on here.

[echiromani]

Sant’Anastasia al Palatino, Rome.

[theepiscopalchurch]

Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. ~ Collect for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost

[notalwaysluminous]

hnh-redivivus replied to your post “what kinds of beliefs, practices, or affiliations lead you to identify…”

That term means a million things to a million people. I’m trying to get a better sense for what this means to you.

http://anglicanhistory.org/alexander/alexander6.html 

I like this description. 

[douayrheims-deactivated20181201]

Cyril of Alexandria, On Psalms 113 (115) (ante A.D. 444).

[protestantfaceofanglicanism]

A diagram worth memorizing. For purposes of security, please swallow your phone when you’ve mastered the above.

[jackiestarsister]

You commit the sins that tempt you, and I the sins that tempt me. And we all feel virtuous for not committing other people’s sins, whereas there is no virtue at all in not committing sins for which one lacks either the temptation or the constitution.

Frank Sheed, Society and Sanity (via jackiestarsister)

[protestantfaceofanglicanism]

Or in stained glass.

[mattieboy123-deactivated2020011]

Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley, bishops and martyrs

[theepiscopalchurch]

When I look at the heavens, the work of your hands, the moon and the stars that you have made; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, children of the earth that you care for them? You have created us a little lower than the angels, and crowned us with glory and honor. ~ Psalm 8:3-5

[frustratedchoirboy]

skeptics: YOU CAN'T PROVE JESUS EXISTED

skeptics: THERE'S PROOF HE WAS MARRIED AND HAD KIDS

skeptics: IT'S IN A MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT

skeptics: IT WAS WRITTEN 700 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH

skeptics: THE GOSPELS WRITTEN DURING HIS TIME AREN'T ACCURATE

[catilinas]

can’t believe they changed the hollywood sign again

[septembersung]

One of the major issues dividing Catholics and Protestants is the Bible. Catholic Bibles have seven Books that Protestants reject: Protestants call these Books “the Apocrypha,” while Catholics call them “the Deuterocanon.” This dispute matters, because it’s hard to agree on what Scripture says if we can’t even agree on what Scripture is, on which Books are Scripture.

Here are four facts that may surprise you about the Protestant Reformer John Calvin’s view of the Deuterocanon, and might cause you to reconsider your views…

[doin-well]

This article is headache-inducing. John Calvin is just one Reformation pastor-teacher, not some kind of Protestant Pope.

For what it’s worth, the Jews (those “to whom were entrusted the oracles of God”) never considered these books canonical, and it is precisely those early Christian writers who knew Hebrew and were deeply familiar with the Old Testament who were most clear about the distinction.

Here is a good resource on this topic.

The Orthodox position is very similar to the Anglican one. (And they have done more than anyone to preserve the Greek Bible with its Apocrypha.)

“The Church accepts these latter books also a useful and instructive and in antiquity assigned them for instructive reading not only in homes but also in churches, which is why they have been called “ecclesiastical”. The Church includes these books in a single volume of the Bible together with the canonical books. As a source of the teaching of the faith, the Church puts them in a secondary place and looks on them as an appendix to the canonical books. Certain of them are so close in merit to the Divinely inspired books that, for example, in the 85th Apostolic Canon the three books of Maccabees and the book of Joshua the son of Sirach are numbered together with the canonical books, and concerning all of them together it is said that they are “venerable and holy”. However this means only that they were respected in the ancient Church; but a distinction between the canonical and non-canonical books of the Old Testament has always been maintained in the Church.” - Michael Pomazansky : Orthodox Dogmatic Theology

[dadcrone]

it’s funny when well meaning progressive types who haven’t read the bible try to be like “yeah jesus was pretty chill” when jesus was demonstrably the least chill person ever 

[septembersung]

One of the major issues dividing Catholics and Protestants is the Bible. Catholic Bibles have seven Books that Protestants reject: Protestants call these Books “the Apocrypha,” while Catholics call them “the Deuterocanon.” This dispute matters, because it’s hard to agree on what Scripture says if we can’t even agree on what Scripture is, on which Books are Scripture.

Here are four facts that may surprise you about the Protestant Reformer John Calvin’s view of the Deuterocanon, and might cause you to reconsider your views…

[venusinmyrrh]

are you a cathedral or chapel catholic? a peter or paul catholic? a lent or advent catholic? an angels or demons catholic? a hail mary or our father catholic? a latin or vernacular catholic? an “and also with you” or “and with your spirit” catholic?

(this also applies to ex-catholics)

[eternal-echoes]

When the time comes and we cannot pray, it is very simple—let Jesus pray in us to the Father in the silence of our hearts. If we cannot speak, He will speak. If we cannot pray, He will pray. So let us give Him our inability and our nothingness.

Saint Teresa of Calcutta (via catherine-of-alexandria)

[renaissance-art-blog]

Seven Sacraments Altarpiece, 1445, Rogier Van Der Weyden