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Another entry in our series on church life and parish culture. This time one simple thesis: Avoid church-parties!
Wait, what in the world?! Father Mark, aren’t you supposed to be the guy who loves the Church calendar and all the feast days? Aren’t you something of a liturgical party animal? Why are you against church parties?…
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The magnificent Oliver O’Donnovan treats the question of the Presence of Christ in the Sacraments as not a matter of substances but of time.
This is where very many medieval and reformational debates got bogged-down: by making it a matter of stuff and not a question of eschatology… Let me summarize a few things…
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On Saturday I will leave these beloved islands for two weeks. I am thankful to say I will miss my family and my church very deeply, it’ll tear my heart out. I shall not be able to bear it.
It will slay me every morning to awake in a house outside of Birmingham where the halls don’t echo with children’s feet running at 5:30 am, and enter into a kitchen where milk (or something worse) has not already been spilt (at least twice), and sit down to a quiet dining room to sip hot coffee while I wait for the van to leave for 3rd Presbyterian…
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Continuing our march through the core values at All Saints, this past Sunday (yesterday from the writing of this post) we examined our value of “Family”…
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