Anglicanism and the Benedict Option
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 03:43PM
Embryo Parson in Anglican Realignment, Anglican Spiritual Life, Ascetical Theology, Benedict Option, Book of Common Prayer, Christian Culture, Christian Resistance Theory and Praxis, Culture Wars, Evangelical and Catholic, Traditional Anglicanism

An excellent article by Fr. Lee Nelson writing at the Anglican Pastor.

What is needed is a charter for extra-parochial communities of prayer, life-giving fellowship, and solidarity in the midst of marginalization, a charter for a new rule of life – not for the individual, but for whole multi-generational groupings of Benedictine Option Christians. We need communities oriented towards the pursuit of the good, the true, and the beautiful, communities in which virtue can flourish. Let me put all my cards on the table. I believe that Anglicanism offers just such a charter. We have forms for daily prayer and common intercession, forms for confession, and litanies for ourselves and for the world. We have an emphasis upon the domestic church and family catechesis. We have in our DNA a way for families to join together in their neighborhoods for evening prayer and cookouts, for students to come together for morning prayer and intercession for one another, for baptismal promises to become enfleshed in sacrifice for the sake of our brothers and sisters. In one of the great ironies of Anglicanism, what was intended for the chapel works best in the home! What was intended for the parish church comes to life outside her four walls! Thanks be to God, for we have a goodly heritage.

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