Chris

Link??

Yes please!

Imagining a new curate sweating trying to determine if this is actually serious, or just ordinary, trouble ⚓️

It's been 60 years since the murder of Jonathan Daniels! Lord have mercy on us.🕯

Are there any Anglo-Catholic crews making anything for sale? Not to feed the (capitalistic) beast, but I'd love devotional materials outside of just St. Augustine's and ACNA products, the latter of which I try to avoid.

Thank you! Would definitely be interested in your essay when it's done as well.

I’d love to hear more about your thoughts on NAECC. I’ve been interested in CFC and OSF but am an outsider to religious life obviously

Interesting tidbit - the Clergy Compensation Report defines "full-time" for clergy as 28.85 hours a week (1,500 hours a year) or more. I wonder what the actual average hours per week for full-time clergy is? ⚓

To ponder if we acted like we actually believed the things we say we believe...

I'd love to see a stripped down version for personal use that's just the four offices, propers, lectionary, and readings bound together in one volume.

I love going to services there, but it's definitely a learning curve! SSJE has it all in a binder, so all you need is that with a hymnal, but it obviously doesn't include the readings. There's the Prayer Book Office from the 1980s, but it doesn't include the readings and has other things included.

Just requires one to have the BCP and hymnal open and or flipping back and forth until you’ve memorized the office lol

Maybe I’m just overlooking it, but it looks like the ‘82 only has MP and EP, no noonday office or compline.

I’ll have to check it out - one day away from SSJE and I’m already missing their chanted offices. Thanks!

Anyone have the offices pointed for chant? Episcopal Chant only has compline, and I can’t seem to find the others anywhere online… ⚓️

that comes from THEIR struggle with the text - not what a hyper advanced autocorrect can spit out.

AI can't write a sermon for the same reason a robot can't consecrate the Eucharist - it has no soul, no mind, no vocation to ministry. Outsourcing one's ministry to AI feels, to be honest, sinful. ⚓

Are AI sermons ethical? Clergy consider where to draw the line. Much of the debate involves grappling with the question of whether AI is being used as a replacement for a sacred human project or whether it's a tool in the service of that project.

Anathema. The argument that "life is just a lot" is so disappointing. If you need a sabbatical, engage your bishop, find supply clergy, read from the Book of Homilies. Ask for help - that's okay! But priests owe their congregation the sacraments, prayer, and faithful preaching... ⚓

chaplains and priests should be trained the same way when their ministries are so different.

In the end, I'm deeply thankful for your ministry, and pray that the next time I'm in the hospital I have someone as faithful as you to visit me. Prayers, my friend.

I'm exceedingly aware I'm no expert. I haven't claimed to be. I've only offered my own reflections on my experience and the material presented to me in class. Our exchange has honestly added to my impression that CPE is a poor fit for priests-in-training. There's no reasons professional hospital

I would also add, gently, that the currently ordained priests who are echoing my comments and concerns suggest that I'm not alone in this opinion.

It isn't a value judgement on your career or even CPE itself. It's a statement that this process (while helpful in other ways!) has not added to my formation as a priest or helped me understand my ministry in the parish or within the priesthood.

from a different approach that 1) provided skills before I engaged patients, 2) placed an emphasis on patient outcomes and didn't treat them as guiena pigs, and 3) was formulated around the ministry I am being called to. And that doesn't have to be CPE! Which was my initial point.

In front of the throne of Christ we are peers in that we are children of God, called to our own separate ministries. Our personal academic and professional achievements do not elevate us above one another in the eyes of God.

I've learned a lot from CPE, and yet I would have benefited more

Your experience is interesting, and yet not my own. You are also not my supervisor or facilitator, and know nothing about my pastoral engagements or my engagement in class. For that reason it's interesting that you see your being a BCC and having 10 units of CPE as somehow separating us.

This is so interesting to me, because it echoes my experience in CPE to a strong degree. No where, in any of my posts, did I say “value in it has thus far eluded [me].” I actually said that I’ve learned a lot. But sweeping generalizations like that have been a big part of my experience this summer

I've had a lot of uncomfortable conversations. Some that I anticipate will be much harder than most I'll experience in ministry. They're difficult, but I value them. But institutions are often more interested in their own survival as opposed to their reason for being.

You can look at my history - I am quite new to bringing topics to this community to discuss. This evening has certainly been illuminating, and honestly made me feel less comfortable in bringing vulnerable conversations to the ⚓Narthex. Lesson learned, I suppose.

I'm not sure what you think I'm redefining, but I would sincerely love to engage in that conversations as peers, if you're interested.

Okay John. I really hold no ill will towards you - I don't know you at all. It appears between our conversations and a separate thread with ‪@chaplaindarth.bsky.social‬ I misread my notifications as you both commenting/building off each other. Mea culpa.

I didn’t deflect and change the topic. I was responding to this:

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