<link>http://afmclavier.wordpress.com</link> </image> <atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://afmclavier.wordpress.com/osd.xml" title="" /> <atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/shredsandpatches" /><feedburner:info uri="shredsandpatches" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://afmclavier.wordpress.com/?pushpress=hub" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>shredsandpatches</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><item> <title>WHAT WENT WRONG?</h1> <article> <h1>WHAT WENT WRONG?</h1> <p>Fr. Tony — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:36:06 +0000</p> I used to have a picture of a sign. It read, “The Bishop is Coming. Hand in your guns when you come to meet him”, or words to that effect. The sign was probably a fake. It was supposed to be an advertisement for a visit of a ‘missionary bishop’ to a community in Montana, [...] </article> <article> <h1>A Theology of Baptism</h1> <p>Fr. Tony — Sat, 26 May 2012 16:27:51 +0000</p> I’ve chosen this title deliberately, despite the fact that to many, it is decidedly off-putting. I was in my early teens when an ancient priest, he must have been at least fifty-five, handed me a copy of CB Moss’s “The Christian Faith” and said “Read it.” He then remarked that the simple statement “God loves [...] </article> <article> <h1>FIRST SERMON IN MY NEW CURES</h1> <p>Fr. Tony — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:45:07 +0000</p> I preached the following on Rogation Sunday, 2012 at St. Bartholomew’s, Granite City and St. Thomas’ Glen Carbon, IL SERMON FOR EASTER SIX I begin on a busy Sunday. Of course it’s Mothers’ Day according to St. Hallmark. It’s also Rogation Sunday, and it’s the Sixth Sunday in the Easter season. [...] </article> <article> <h1>TRANSITIONS</h1> <p>Fr. Tony — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:56:44 +0000</p> Towards the end of last month I had a birthday. One normally marks decades, and receives cards making rude remarks about one’s age. My birthday didn’t mark a decade, but rather signaled that moment when the Episcopal Church, by Canon, decrees that its clergy must retire. It would be interesting to discover how General Convention [...] </article> <article> <h1>COMMUNION WITH WHAT?</h1> <p>Fr. Tony — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:00:32 +0000</p> It seems that some Anglican Primates, members of something called the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) wish to replace the primacy of the See of Canterbury with an elected chairman, one of their own number, to serve for four or five year terms. For as long as there has been an expression of Christianity termed [...] </article> <article> <h1>DOUBTS</h1> <p>Fr. Tony — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:50:24 +0000</p> DOUBTS Next Sunday we encounter Thomas the Doubter. The first point to note is that the story is told at all. After all, like Peter’s betrayals, it must have been embarrassing for these first followers and friends of Jesus to be portrayed in an unfavorable light. Even if they were both dead before written copies [...] </article> <article> <h1>GIVING COMMUNION TO THE UNBAPTIZED</h1> <p>Fr. Tony — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:21:59 +0000</p> A resolution has been offered by the deputies of a small Western Episcopal Diocese asking the General Convention to reconsider a former decision not to overthrow a canonical ban on giving communion to unbaptized visitors to worship. More and more parishes are already violating church law in this matter. I’m not going to address the [...] </article> <article> <h1>IS THE ANGLICAN COVENANT DEAD?</h1> <p>Fr. Tony — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:49:03 +0000</p> During the past few months, the text of the Anglican Covenant has been debated by diocesan synods in the Church of England. Enough dioceses have now rejected the Covenant to prevent its further consideration by General Synod during its present term. This doesn’t mean the the Covenant is dead either in the Church of England [...] </article> <article> <h1>ROWAN WILLIAMS</h1> <p>Fr. Tony — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:05:50 +0000</p> I was saddened to read that the Archbishop of Canterbury is to resign his see at the end of the year. I only met him once. I was attending the General Synod of the Church of England held in York in 2004. I went to get my visitor’s credentials and there was +Rowan, humbly in [...] </article> <article> <h1>WHAT HAVE WE BECOME?</h1> <p>Fr. Tony — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:27:27 +0000</p> When I was a pre-teen youngster, says the sage as he shakes his grey locks, we were taught that the instruments were the See of Canterbury, the Book of Common Prayer, the Lambeth Conference and the Articles of Religion. Of course in those far off days Canterbury still exercised Primatial authority in a great deal [...] </article> </main></body></html>