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Thank you for listening. The Boniface Group is the mission society of Holy Trinity Ev.-Lutheran Church of Gem County. If you would like to support our work, you may do so here. (Crypto options coming soon.) To learn more, visit our homepage and start reading from the top. Thank you, and God bless you.

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• Sermon Outline: Feast of the Holy Trinity, 2026

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When were these sermons preached?

A reading of our recent post by the same name and the soft relaunch of The Axehead Circular podcast.

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A special episode of The Axehead Circular featuring a reading of “Matins and Vespers in the Life of the Church,” by the Rev. Charles L. McClean, pastor of Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Baltimore. A link to a PDF of this article can be found in the show notes.

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• “Matins and Vespers in the Life of the Church,” Charles L. McClean; Church Music; Vol. 75, Issue 2; 1975

“Let all the faithful, whether men or women, when early in the morning they rise from their sleep and before they undertake any tasks, wash their hands and pray to God; and so they may go to their duties. But if any instruction in God’s word is held that day, everyone ought to attend it willingly, recollecting that he will hear God speaking through the instructor and that prayer in the church enables him to avoid the day’s evil; any godly man ought to count it a great loss if he does not attend the place of instruction, especially if he can read. . . . But if on any day there is no instruction, let everyone at home take the Bible and read sufficiently in passages that he finds profitable.” (Hippolytus of Rome, The Apostolic Tradition, Part IV.35)

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• “The Case for Working With Your Hands,” Matthew B. Crawford; New York Times, May 2009
• “The Rise of Anti-Humanism,” Matthew B. Crawford; First Things, August 2023
• Volvo 122S (Wikipedia)
• “The Order of Matins,” The Lutheran Hymnal (St. Louis: Concordia, 1941), 32-40
• “The Ancient Babylonian Origins Of Modern Time,” Klockit, October 2014
• “Matins and Vespers in the Life of the Church,” Charles L. McClean; Church Music, Vol. 75, Issue 2; 1975
• The Apostolic Tradition, Hippolytus of Rome, trans. Burton Scott Easton; Project Gutenberg; c. 220/1934
• “O Come, Let Us Bowdlerize,” Matthew Bray; The North American Anglican, May 2018
• The Restored Venite (Psalm 95), vv. 8-11 set by David Schotte

Today we learn what happens when the opening monologue doesn’t end, Trent doesn’t really have a topic, and the entire episode is a tangent. Not entirely, but close enough. Today we’re talking about the village again, but in a roundabout way. It’s called “the conversation and consolation of brethren,” and boy do we all need it. No, it isn’t a conference. It’s not not a conference. But if it’s only happening at conferences, something is very, very wrong. We discuss sharks in your living room, der ewige Porch, weaving, hymn-singing, and why you don’t need call documents to be a Christian, a friend, or a Christian friend.

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• Remembering Andrew Hamilton (SupportNow)
• Luther on learning and reciting the Catechism
• H. C. Schwan (Wikipedia)
• 1912 “Schwan” Catechism (German/English PDF)
• Smalcald Articles, Part III, Article IV, “Of the Gospel”
• Small Catechism, Part IV, “The Office of the Keys”

In this episode Trent introduces William Holmes McGuffey and his famous readers. He talks about why the idea of the tabula rasa is false and pernicious, the biological reality of the American people, and some lessons about national identity from Ancient Israel. The discussion moves to the topic of the great shift in language instruction in the mid-twentieth century, why you might want to think twice about Dr. Seuss, and why Calvinism is a whipping boy for historians of American education. Toward the end of the episode, Trent points out several instances of how the virtues of McGuffey’s readers are often made evident in the mirror of his enemies’ critiques.

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• St. Boniface Lutheran School – 24/25 Homeschool Trial Plan
• McGuffey Readers (Britannica Online)
• An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, by John Locke (Project Gutenberg)
• Mary Poppins: Part Time Nanny, Full Time Witch (The Unexpected Cosmology)
• Adults are flocking to the toy aisle even more than preschoolers (CNN)
• Benjamin Franklin’s American Dream (Chronicles)
• Debbie DeGroff on indoctrination in children’s books (Jerm Warfare)
• Magick, Ritual, and Symbolism in the Cat in the Hat. [Part 1 of 6] (Distance Avails Not)
• Leave Dr. Seuss for Dead (Chronicles)
• Horace Mann (Wikipedia)
• I’m Glad the Comanche Lost and Other Things You Are Not Supposed to Say about Native Americans, Their Marketers, Scholars, and Fans (Save Send Delete)

In this episode Trent begins a survey of the weekly schedule used by St. Boniface. He discusses the significance of the week as a divine period of time, makes a digression on the worthlessness of modern American conservatism, and thinks out loud regarding the benefits of differentiated attendance and the variable shortening of the school day as a means of accommodating diverse academic abilities. As the episode wraps up, Trent makes the case for dialing down the academic rigor when teaching Literature and History during the elementary school years, not because these subjects are unimportant, but because the opposite is the case, and the readiness is all.

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• Andrew’s Recovery (SupportNow)
• St. Boniface Lutheran School – 24/25 Homeschool Trial Plan
• The Christian Year of Grace, by Johann Spangenberg, trans. Matthew Carver
• “O Day of Rest and Gladness,” Christopher Wordsworth (TLH 9)
• Taiga (Wikipedia)
• Terrence Tao (Wikipedia)