Fr Christopher Poore

Wild to me that people think theology is irrelevant to the life of the Church.

Like, I'm here just trying to think about the pressing questions that any sensible 13 year-old asks when you tell them to recite the Creed. ⚓

The Lord's comin' back y'all ⚓

"Church should be a place where people enjoy coming." ⛪

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"Lord, you told me to be wakeful and watchful, and LORD, I am awake and watching!!" Excuse me while I make another coffee...

#HeGetsUs.

What a relief!

Let's do our best to build little gardens like that in the world. 🙏💜

Holiness is the brightness of divine love.

—Fr. James Huntington ⚓

Today I opened the Anglican Advent playlist on Spotify, listened to 30 seconds, and then screamed into the void, "Am I allowed to do this yet!!??"

Prepping for Advent.

We are those upon whom the end has come It is an incredible feast we are celebrating today: Christ the King Sunday, the last Sunday after Pentecost—think of how that sounds: the last Sunday after Pentecost. As if there are only so many Sund...

Cataclysmic: coming to the end of not only the church year but the 3-year lectionary. Time itself like a scroll rolled up, every word having been read. And the last word of it all? The end of it all? “This day you will be with me in paradise.” ⚓

Sourcing an Anglican Doctrine of Scripture: William Whitaker How do we know that Holy Scripture is Holy Scripture?

Please do like and share if you find this sort of thing helpful. Trying to figure out if there is an audience for a series on sourcing an Anglican doctrine of Holy Scripture. ⚓

It's too bad that so many Anglicans don't know much about William Whitaker.

He was one of the most important defenders of scriptural authority in the sixteenth-century Church of England.

I'm here to help you all get acquainted. 1/2

Yes. Perfect!

I have long loved this song.
And that guy holding his shirt. This is what saints look like.

Yeah, they're just standing there using their shirt to wipe their glasses like they aren't singing about the end of time!

Guys, I think they wrote our Christ the King sermon for us? ⚓

We need this back in print. So glad you got a copy!

One of my favorite gifts to give catechumens and confirmands. I am so thankful that it is still in print and it is still such a cornerstone in my daily life. Fun fact: I owned the St. Augustine’s prayer book before I became an Anglican, I say it led me to the church as an unbeknownst witness. 10/10🔥

All you Prayer C peeps...

‘He grew up among a people subjected to military occupation’ is particularly interesting given that Congar also experienced that.

Screenshot from Wikipedia: From 1947 to 1956 Congar's controversial writing was restricted by the Vatican. One of his most important books True and False Reform in the Church (1950) and all of its translations were forbidden by Rome in 1952. Congar was prevented from teaching or publishing after 1954, during the pontificate of Pope Pius XII, following publication of an article in support of the worker-priest movement started by Jacques Loew in France. He was subsequently assigned to minor posts in Jerusalem, Rome, Cambridge and Strasbourg. Eventually, in 1956, Archbishop Jean Julien Weber of Strasbourg assisted Congar in returning to France.[8] Congar's reputation recovered in 1960 when Pope John XXIII invited him to serve on the preparatory theological commission of the Second Vatican Council.

Right! It's clear how much he sees Jesus identifying not just with suffering in general but with his (Congar's) own particular suffering. This line especially made me think about that: "he knew what it was ... to be put on the index by the most sacred authorities." Ofc Congar was on the index!

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Oh that sort of thing is the best. Love it.

Yeah, me too. And also: so many chalices and flagons ciboria!

From the chapter "God Reveals Himself in Poverty," in Congar's book, Jesus Christ (1966), pgs. 80-82. ⚓

I know the world is rough right now. "it is a history made up of the trampling of the weak by the strong, the crushing of the little by the great, and, for the majority of men, the incredible accumulation of woes." That's why you should read this excerpt from Congar, so you can see where God stands.

YouTube video by BibleProject What It Means for Jesus to Be the "Word of God"

Not a bad exploration of Jesus as Logos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgsl...

See, yes, this is the balance I'm finding tricky. I want an accessible introduction to Jesus Christ that gets people thinking Christologically. I did assign the Sermon on the Mount, and I'll probably also do "A Man for All Seasons" from Rowan Williams's Tokens of Trust.

*bows and makes the sign of the cross, with the pious invocation “My Lord and my God, amen.”*

Rowan Williams elevates the host during a celebration of Eucharist. There are chalices and cruets of wine on the altar, and in the background members of the choir can be seen.

Reverence for the bread and the wine of the Eucharist is the beginning of reverence for the whole world.

—Rowan Williams, "Being Christian" ⚓