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October 2009
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theSCP News and Events
November is Coming
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Greetings!
The SCP's great promise at the moment seems to
be that it will call priests together and call us back to convictions
and joyful passions that animated our experience of the sacramental
life and that propelled us towards the ordination process, seminary,
and the work we now carry out. There is, as the Society comes together, a real
joy in prayer and in communion, in reflection on the Church's heritage
and its work, and there is a real delight in the friends we are finding. If we
can capture some of that and learn to live it will be a great honor
for Christ Church, New Haven, to welcome the Society in its beginnings
and there will be a great deal of joy in getting to know each other and
finding our skepticism answered and our hopes exceeded.
If you are
planning to join us- find someone who is longing for this sort of a
group- and encourage him or her to come with you. Find someone who is
suspicious, who assumes that this group will fall into the old
divisions and suspicious or get lost in one irrelevancy or the other-
and tell him or her that they can help us build something grounded and
joyful. Best of all, pray and participate in the life of the Society
so that our best hopes are realized and our skepticism answered- and
that we find patience and delight in the Lord and companionship with
each other.
David Cobb+
Rector, Christ Church New Haven
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theSCP Inaugural Conference
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The Inaugural Conference Registration
 If you have not registered for the November Conference and are intending to do so, it is just a few weeks away.
As we plan meals, liturgies, and conversations it is important that people finish up their registration.
To register or get more information about schedules, events, and the like, simply click on the image above or head here!
Here you can find the conference flyer.
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Membership for November Induction
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 Those members desiring induction in November to the Society should fill out their membership forms as soon as possible so that we can help get chapters organized.
Those who are on the rolls or at the conference in November will be listed as founding members of the Society in our membership roster and on the prayer lists.
Should you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. To join, simply click the image above or head here!
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Sermon from the Initial Gathering of the VA/MD/D.C. Chapter |
| by Jared Cramer |
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Sermon from the VA/MD/D.C. Chapter Gathering
"I had a feeling, when I first realized that the day we had chosen for this gathering was the Feast of St. James, that there was something terrifically serendipitous about our concluding our afternoon together with a celebration of this feast. There's something about celebrating James, the first bishop of Jerusalem, some Gospel within this story that God wants us to hear today. And so I considered what I might say..."
read more here... |
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What is Anglo-Catholicism? (Article)
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by Derek Olsen |
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One of the real challenges of Anglo-Catholicism is the disparate notions of what it is. There is the confusion that any use of "catholic" brings and then there are the assumptions that it is about liturgical style or titles for clergy. At its worst it suggests an insecurity in the face of Roman claims or an uncharitable attitude towards protestants.
This article, on Episcopal Café reminds me of a conversation I had with a diocesan staff member after a rather spectacularly Anglo-Catholic ordination liturgy at Christ Church- "now I know I'm not anglo-catholic" the visitor said. My reply was this- "anglo-catholic has little to do with what we just did- at least not without Morning Prayer on Monday at 8am."
If our spirituality is not grounded in the Prayer Book System of Office, Mass and personal prayer- in the same way that our theology is grounded in Scripture, Tradition, and Reason-(and one might add if our life is not focused on service, stewardship and witness, another useful three legged piece of furniture) - then vestments, titles, billowing clouds of incenses and resonant organs are just trifles. They are, in themselves more appealing than liturgy that is sloppy or chummy or self-consciously restrained - but they are not the point. The writer keeps a blog well worth visiting - and his description of Anglo-Catholicism is useful as this society begins to take shape and come from theory to reality.
David Cobb+
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