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Grave humility: After provincial council

June 29, 2023 Mark Brians

p/c: Jomarc Nicolai Cala

There were announcements, and motions passed, and reports given, and wonderful meetings with brothers and sisters engaged in ministry all across the world —these and many other things contributed to making the 2023 ACNA Provincial Council wonderful and encouraging. Most encouraging, however, for this priest was the way in which I witnessed the Gospel proclaimed by the college of Bishops.

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Kiss the drowning

June 19, 2023 Mark Brians

By Internet Archive Book Images https://archive.org/stream/lifelettersworko01barr/lifelettersworko01barr#page/n369/mode/1up

Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was first formulated in contemporary medical language in a presentation John Fothergill gave at the Royal Society of London. He called it “the kiss of life.” It was poorly received.

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Tags Kiss, Genesis 2:7, 2 Kings 4:18-37, Kiss of Life, Mouth to Mouth Resuscitation

The sense of touch

June 5, 2023 Mark Brians

p/c: Jackson David

Aristotle and Derrida both point-out how Touch is unique among the senses. For one thing the other four senses have a clear object: Tasting tastes flavor; Hearing hears sound; Sight sees light; and (easiest of all) Smelling smells smell. But Touching? What does Touching touch?

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Tags Touch, Derrida, Aristotle, Jesus, Gospel, Touching

Sabbatical division reunion recreation

May 29, 2023 Mark Brians

image: from “The Creation” by George Graham

When God does a new thing in the Bible, when he creates, there is division. Think about the creation story: God separates the waters above from the waters below, he divides the night from the day, he raises-up the dry land distinguishing it from the waters.

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Tags sabbatical, Genesis, recreation, division, reunion, return

Passing the Kiss of Peace

May 23, 2023 Mark Brians

…For the several centuries after Pentecost, Christians shared the peace of Christ with one another by sharing a holy kiss, following the plain instructions of scripture (Rom 16:16, 1 Cor 16:20, 2 Cor 13:12, 1 Thess 5:26, 1 Peter 5:14). At the part of our service called “the passing of the peace” men exchanged a kiss, usually on the cheek, with one another and women did the same…

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Tags Kiss, Peace, Pax, Spirit, Romans 16:16

When a parishioner leaves your church on good standing because of a move

May 15, 2023 Mark Brians

p/c: Lubov' Birina @etonepravda

…I want to consider those situations which have become among us more and more common as modern society has become liquid and transitory: parishioners leaving a parish due to a work-related or family-related move…

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Tags Departure, Goodbye, Aloha, Farewell, Job 1:21, Liturgy, Parisioners leaving

The Cross is the heart of the world

May 8, 2023 Mark Brians

p/c: Laura Allen

Reality is cruciform. It takes the shape of the Cross.

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Tags Cross, Labyrinth, Saltire, Yahweh, Christ, Reality, Thomas A Kempis, Rosenstock-Huessy, Oedipus

The Good Shepherd gives shepherds

May 1, 2023 Mark Brians

p/c Greg Roesnke

Yesterday was Good Shepherd Sunday on the liturgical calendar. To summarize the gospel lesson: Jesus is the Good Shepherd who lays down His Life for the sheep (cf. John 10). Jesus does not invent this image in John 10, it is an image he fulfills given in the prophets…

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Tags Leadership, God Shepherd, Good Shepherd, Pastoral Ministry, Jeremiah 23, Ezekiel 34, John 10, John 21

Stories about The End of the World

April 24, 2023 Mark Brians

I started watching Waterworld (1995) yesterday. My takeaway? Our apocalypses betray us.

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Tags Waterworld, Mad Max, Fury Road, Charles Taylor, Secularism, Post-Apocalyptic, The Walking Dead, End of the World

The science fiction of Gene Wolfe

April 17, 2023 Mark Brians

Taking a few days off after Easter I began a long-hungered for read: The Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe.

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Tags Bible, Study, Bible Study, Gene Wolfe, Book of the Long Sun, Book of the New Sun, Severian, St. John, Symbol
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