"About As Relevant As a Mormon"

"About As Relevant As a Mormon"

A delegation of bishops of the Orthodox Anglican Communion, including our Metropolitan Thomas E. Gordon, are greeted by Pope Francis, who expressed his desire for Christian unity and asked for their prayers.

Paging Fr. Robert Hart and Sarah Ann Wagner-Wassen.

Bishops of the Orthodox Anglican Church at Today's Papal Audiance

A delegation of bishops of the Orthodox Anglican Church, including Presiding Bishop of the Orthodox Anglican Church and Metropolitan of the Orthodox Anglican Communion, Thomas E. Gordon, was received at today's General Audience. Shots of the delegation at 2:25, 14:45, 52:19, 55:23 and 57:28.

According to Bishop Joshua Gilliam, also a member of the delegation, "The Pope personally greeted each of our Bishops and expressed his appreciation areas of common faith, desire for unity, and our prayers."

The Anglican Church in North America and Women's Ordination

Ordination femina delenda est: Why Women's Ordination is the Canary in the Coal Mine

John Zmirak on David Bentley Hart

Is David Bentley Hart the Worst Gasbag in Christendom? The Contest Begins.

My Facebook friend in top form as he and others eviscerate DBH on his political views and hypocrisy.

When a Theologian Goes Rogue

Incisive analysis of David Bentley Hart.

From the Mouth of David Bentley Hart

"Understand, Brian, I dislike every single form of conservatism–political, religious, what have you. I don’t mind an admiration for what is good in lost traditions, so long as it doesn’t become mere reaction. But, at the end of the day, I’m basically an anarchist and communalist. I believe that all that lilies of the field nonsense that Jesus preached was more than a daydream; and I think the longing for strict social hierarchy–again, Guénon through and through–as an antidote to modernity is simply a longing for a reprise of the same sins that created modernity. That’s what I was criticizing. . . .

Though The Loved One was post-Brideshead, so there’s one last great Waugh novel that actually came out after that dreary swim through that syrupy paean to Catholiscism (sic) devoid of Christianity."

Read these and other gems from DBH in the comments section here.

Addison Hodges Hart, Call Your Office

Temptation of the Psychonauts.

"I'm Not Interested", He Sniffs

But clearly this insufferable, pretentious snob is intensely interested.  How absolutely disingenuous. 

Once again, David Bentley Hart pretends  to stand on the high ground of Eastern Orthodox theology looking down on benighted Roman Catholic, Anglican and Protestant theology, when the fact is that he stands against his own church on this matter. Pay attention and note how he dances around that issue in this interview.

But  this theological Brahmin is so exceedingly smart, doncha know, and must therefore be believed.  As traditional Anglican scholar and priest Fr. Gerald McDermott rightfully concluded, however, David Bentley Hart has "never been a man of the Church."  "We believe in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church", not in men like Hart who believe only in themselves.

Unsurprisingly, his lesser light of a brother approves.  Today he writes in a duplicative post, "What is infernalism but calling good evil, and evil good?"

Your issue is with the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, Robert.  Take it up with her.

A Year in the Life of the Orthodox Anglican Communion

Scenes from our corner of the Lord's Vineyard.  Come join us.

The Consecration of Bishops

On the Feast of St. Nicholas of Myra, Good Shepherd Anglican Church, Myrtle Beach, SC.   Many years to our new bishops in Orthodox Anglican Church, the Rt Revd Charles H. Nalls, and the Rt Revd Joshua A. Arena-Gilliam.

Another Howler from Addison Hodges Hart

The New Republic: "'We' Don't Have a Political Violence Problem.  Republicans Do."

Don't mention to liberal-left ideologues like the Hart Brothers such things as the French and Bolshevik Revolutions, and the sometimes genocidal worldwide political violence that stemmed from them, including BLM and Antifa-related violence here in the States.  All rightist violence since the appearance of the left in the 18th century has been in reaction to this.  So get out of here with that noise, Addison.

So Much For Bishop Barron

But then again, this was four years ago.  DBH's thought has (d)evolved significantly since then.

This Is Anglicanism

This isn't.

This is:

This Isn't Anglicanism

No. Just no.

Not this either:

An "Altar"

Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), in one of their hip church plants.

One priest comments, "So who knew IKEA sold altars?"

I mean, what in the actual heck is this?  It looks like an ironing board.  Why don't they have a real altar instead of this ugly abomination of a "communion table"?  Where are his vestments?  Celebrating Holy Communion in jeans, clerical shirt and stole? C'mon.  Why isn't he facing ad orientum?  Is he reading a laptop?  If not, what is that thing?  What are those fired clay things on the "altar"?

Folks, this isn't Anglicanism.  It is an imposter.  My Anglican jurisdiction, The Orthodox Anglican Church - North America, recently received two parishes from the ACNA and several clergy who craved traditional Anglicanism and therefore simply got tired of this and other pseudo-Anglican nonsense.  I suspect we will receive more of their parishes and clergy in the futre.   

By the way, ACNA's usage of the terms "abbeys" and leading "abbots" with respect to some of their church plants is consummate silliness.  Abbeys are communities formed by monks, who are celibates, and abbots are celibate monastic leaders of abbeys.  ACNA's "Mission Abbey" is no abbey, and Chris Sorenson is no abbot.  Styling this community as an "abbey" is nothing more than "cool" factor, but a complete distortion of Church history.

(The reference to "Foley" in the top pic is to Archbishop Foley Beach, the Primate of the Neo-Anglican ACNA and the Ordinary of the ACNA's Anglican Diocese of the South.)

Obervations of a Couple of Anglicans about the Hart Brothers

"Addison's into Adhidharma, David's a Vendantist and Robert's frothed to a frazzle about MAGA Republicans. The Hart bros. Never a dull moment."

Yes, never a dull moment.

Another Anglican, Fr. David F. Coady, nails it in  a comment to Mr. Hart's recent Facebook post:  "You have hit a new low."

Hart then blocked me after I posted a few laughing emoticons, but as you can see, and as he will, I can still see him.  Somehow this poor excuse for a priest thinks that by calling me an "@$$ hole" with substitutive characters makes his unchristian, vulgar name-calling more holy or something.  Like when he does the same when refers to us "Trumpublican pieces of $#!+". 

Where is his bishop, I wonder?

The Hart Brothers:  A Metaphor

Litaniae Sanctorum

Kyrie eleison

Christe eleison

Christe, audi nos.

 Christe, exaudi nos.

Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis.

Sancte Michaël, ora pro nobis.

Sancte Gabriel, ora pro nobis.

Sancte Raphaël, ora pro nobis.

Omnes sancti Angeli et Archangeli, orate pro nobis.

Sancte Joannes Baptista, ora pro nobis.

Omnes sancti Patriarchae et Prophetae, orate pro nobis.

Sancte Petre, ora pro nobis.

Sancte Paule, ora pro nobis.

Sancte Andrea, ora pro nobis.

Sancte Jacobe, ora pro nobis.

Omnes sancti Apostoli et Evangelistae, orate pro nobis.

Sancte Stephane, ora pro nobis.

Sancte Clemens, ora pro nobis.

Sancte Laurenti, ora pro nobis.

Sancte Maurici, ora pro nobis.

Omnes sancti Martyres, orate.

Sancte Silvester, ora pro nobis.

Sancte Gregori, ora pro nobis.

Sancte Nicolae, ora pro nobis.

Omnes sancti Confessores, orate pro nobis.

Sancta Maria Magdalena, ora pro nobis.

Sancta Felicitas, ora pro nobis.

Sancta Catherina, ora pro nobis.

Sancta Margaretha, ora pro nobis.

Omnes sanctæ Virgines et Viduae, orate pro nobis.

Omnes Sancti, orate pro nobis.

Propitius esto, parce nobis, Domine.

Propitius esto, libera nos, Domine.

Ab insidiis diaboli, libera nos Domine.

Ab omni malo, libera nos, Domine.

In die judicii, libera nos, Domine.

Peccatores, te rogamus, audi nos.

Ut nos exaudire digneris, te rogamus audi nos.

Fili Dei, te rogamus audi nos.

This Is Your Polish Catholic Chant on Testosterone

Catholic chant for Catholic men.  Let's be done with all effeminacy.

Dig the "Alleluia, Amen" at the end.  Out of this world.

Ephraim Radner on the Death of the Anglican Communion

The Last Lambeth Conference.

To Orthodox Anglicans still in the "Communion", you got to move.  Come see us.

An Interview with N.T. Wright on Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

This is an absolutely fascinating interview, as is this one with Gavin Ashendon.

Please understand that for most of us traditional Anglicans it is the institution, or the office, of the English monarchy that is hallowed, and not the House of Windsor per se. Most modern monarchs have been infected by modern Western liberal democracy and all that goes along with that, and His Majesty Charles III is no exception.

The thing is, an increasing number of us have come to the realization that secularism is an enemy of the Church. Why would we therefore not wish to separate ourselves from that godless Leviathan and wish instead to be governed by our fellow Christians, whether in a Christian monarchy or republic?

I do not accept the argument advanced by some that God's warning to Israel about desiring a king in I Samuel 8 means that God is a republican. There is Deut. 17:14 ff. to consider. The human Christian king is an icon of Christ's eternal kingship, just as the human Christian priest is an icon of his eternal priesthood and the human Christian prophet is an icon of his eternal prophetic ministry. Christ, according to our christology, is prophet, priest and king, and those 3 offices are hallowed in a temporal way as earthly reflections of his offices.

Have Christian monarchs sometimes been despotic? Absolutely, just as some Christian priests and prophets have sometimes proved unworthy. But it is the office that counts and not the oftentimes defective behavior of those who hold the office. This is something secularists just can't get their heads around, but that's because they are secularists and therefore think accordingly.

God rest the soul of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and God save the King His Majesty Charles III. May he become a Christian king in the best sense of the word, but if he doesn't, may a better monarch take his place. May the English monarchy return to what it was, warts and all. It beats the rule of secularists.

Monarchy can easily be 'debunked,' but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison. - C.S. Lewis