#Anglicans Online

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

From Anglicans Online

We doubt whether the name of Richard Hillary is particularly well known to many. Born in 1919 in Sydney, early in his life he came to England, was educated at Shrewsbury, and proceeded to Trinity College, Oxford. Possessed of a personality that courted daring and danger, he joined the University Air Squadron in 1938 and was called up to the Royal Air Force in 1939. He was handsome, flirtatious, and a bit unthinking. He flew brilliantly, but took risks. In August 1940 his plane was hit by gunfire and he bailed out of it, horrifically burned. Spending three excruciating months in hospital, he underwent a series of experimental plastic surgeries. He was eventually released, his striking face somewhat rebuilt, but still bearing the scars. His muscles were irreparably damaged and his movements forever impaired, but he insisted on resuming flying, despite being barely able to manipulate a knife and fork at the dinner table and despite all recommendation to the contrary. Hillary's last fatal flight was 'round midnight, 8 January 1943, wintry and windy. Shortly after take-off his plane straightaway ran into difficulty. The undercarriage would not come down for landing and the fuel was running low. Hillary and his navigator were instructed to circle a beacon near the centre of the aerodrome. 'Are you happy?', came the somewhat unusual question from the radiotelephone operator, querying their dire situation. 'Moderately', replied Hillary. 'I am continuing to circle'. Minutes after, the plane began losing altitude and soon smashed into the ground, killing both. On this last day after Pentecost or Sunday next before Advent or Stir-up Sunday or the Feat of Christ the King (however one counts it), Hillary's last words — 'I am continuing to circle' — resonate. We have come to the end of the Christian liturgical year, having woven our Sundays and Holy Days into yet one more annual ring of celebration, observance, feast, and fast. We have formed our circle once again. And yet, and yet, only for this life. Our yearly ring, through God's mercy and at a time unknown to us, will slow and stop. Our time will no longer be measured by feast and fast or marked off as 'ordinary'. We shan't 'continue to circle'. Our journey continues in a way we know not. But we trust it will continue, spiralling towards the centre, towards God. 'The disagreement between the two kinds of religion is chiefly on the point whether it is a good thing or a bad thing to be born at all', writes Eithne Wilkins*, continuing: 'The negative wheel is that which merely circles, causing birth and death to recur ceaselessly, and it also broke the spiked wheel of human passions under which we are torn to pieces. St Catherine might be regarded as a good Buddhist in that through her prayers she broke the wheel, so that it could no longer harm her, and after she was decapitated her unsullied body was wafted away by angels. She did not, in a negative sense, "continue to circle". The positive wheel is not that on which we dismally recognize "This is where we came in", but that with a spiralling movement towards the centre. It is the great glowing round that is also the western window, the rose'. We are part of the circle game of life, made meaningful by our following the pattern of Christian fast and feast, and marking the yearly passage of our pilgrimage. Our Lord broke through the circle of life and death on that first Easter, shattering its meaninglessness once for all: 'The Last Enemy to be destroyed is death'†. The circle was broken here on earth, spiralling to an eternal circle in the life of the world to come. Double helix indeed! And now — here's where we 'come in' — we stand on the threshold of Advent, waiting in this strange end-of-year space briefly before we enter that dark quiet time of count-down once again. The liturgical year is indeed a way of time travel, a circularity that brings with it the story of salvation. Our parts are waiting for us, if we will join in.

[Alive On All Channels]

#stories #Christianity #WWII #religious #belief #negative wheel #circle of birth and death #St. Catherine #circle #circling #Anglicans Online #Richard Hillary #Alive On All Channels

[martianbugsbunny]

If I am going to be a 1600s Anglican clergyman then by Rumplestiltskin I am going to be the cuntiest 1600s Anglican clergyman who ever lived

#I'm playing one of those historical rpgs #we're deciding whether or not to have a glorious revolution #my guy is an anglican clergyman but that doesn't mean we can't SERVE #also it amuses me that he would probably be rolling over in his grave if he could see how I'm dressing him #it's literally such a weird experience and it feels a little silly #but at the same time it's kind of fun #rpg #historical rpg #yk one of the ones where you actually represent a person it's not online or tabletop or smthn #the debates got heated today let me tell you #reacting to the past #that's what the games are called #reacting to the past games #the glorious revolution #(or not we'll see) #martianbugsbunny plays a game

[bizarre-blorbo-bracket]

Round 1 poll 13: Rev. Green from Cluedo vs the Nachtraven from Nachtraven

Propaganda under the cut:

Rev. Green:

1) Literally just a random board game character 😪 2) Ok so basically here’s the deal. One day, about a year and a half or two years ago, I saw some random thing related to Clue online. I (dual U.S. American and Russian citizen, because I was born in America to an immigrant parent, I PROMISE this is important) was confused because among the cast of characters was “Mr. Green”. Now, I hadn’t played Clue in a very long time. It wasn’t my favorite game as a kid, my only memories of it were wanting to play as Ms. Peacock and then my brother taking her and making me pick someone else, but I was pretty confident the character was Reverend Green. What happened? Was he excommunicated?? I kind of figured the name was just changed to reflect a more secular culture and that I had unknowingly played an old copy of the game as a kid.

But it fascinated me. So I spent months on and off researching the topic. (poorly, might I add, it wasn’t a complicated issue. But still.) I found out about many changes from version to version. Clue Junior, Clue VCR Mystery, Clue Master Detectives, all of it. And the whole time, Green was there to greet me in each new version. It was the first thing I always checked. Was he Mister or Reverend? I found out in one version he was a defrocked priest turned businessman, and in another a scam artist who pretended to be a member of the clergy to pull of a scheme. Closer. I ran polls, I went to irl Clue events, and eventually I found what I was looking for the whole time. Green was a Reverend in the 1944 patent of the game, and the subsequent 1949 U.K. release of Cluedo. But, because of fear that U.S. Citizens would take issue with a member of the church being suspected of murder, Parker Brothers changed the name to Mister Green for the U.S. release.

That all could have taken me five minutes of googling, but honestly the chase made the result so much more worth it. And yet, there was something more there in the back of my mind. This all was well and good, but why was I so sure of the U.K. version of the name? My father’s family is Irish so we have a pretty healthy hatred of all things British, there’s no way my dad would’ve had us play that version of the game. Right? But thanks to a response from a poll I ran, I found out that the German version also went with Reverend. Because Green is an Anglican, I kind of assumed that the U.S. change might have been carried over into other international releases. But no! That made me realize that Mister Green is an outlier and that almost all languages of the game use Reverend. So then last night the pieces finally clicked together. I asked my mom to confirm a hunch I had, not expecting her to at all remember something this trivial. Like I said, I didn’t play it much as a kid. Maybe we didn’t even own a copy, and I had just played it at a library or a hurricane shelter or a relative’s house or something. But she remembered. We did, in fact, own the game. Not just any version, but a RUSSIAN COPY. I unknowingly grew up with Cluedo! So I had every reason to believe it was Reverend Green and be confused when I heard otherwise.

Tl;dr, minor version difference between Russian and American copies of a board game gave me a hyperfixation and a blorbo.

Nachtraven:

SO! The Nachtraven is the titular character of a Dutch children’s gameshow.

They’re a cyberpunk-synthwave-medieval fantasy knight (which is honestly an awesome aesthetic) who breaks into children’s bedrooms at night, lures from their sleepovers and makes them compete against each other in challenges… and the winners get to have a lovely sleepover at whatever place they were lured to.

Seriously, they’re so ominous, so sinister, so villain-coded, but all they want to do is to make children’s sleepovers even better. They’re just a nice guy/entity.

They don’t speak, and instead communicate using electronic beeps, gestures, tape recordings of a woman’s voice and the visor of their knight’s helmet as an LED display they put words on.

Seriously, if this was an American show, all the cryptidcore kids would be citing them as one of their biggest childhood influences. I hope that one day they will be recognised as the true cryptid they are.

#nachtraven #rev. green #mr green #cluedo #clue

[godlovesdykes]

hi I was just wondering if u can mention a few of ur other favorite prayers? I need a few more in my arsenal !

my favourite repository for prayers is the anglican book of common prayer! you should be able to find it online, or there’s an app with the daily offices. i like to pray the evening prayer collect before bed:

lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, o lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for the love of thy only son, our saviour jesus christ. amen.

compline and the prayers for families also have some very sweet ones:

keep us as the apple of an eye; hide us under the shadow of thy wings.

preserve us, o lord, waking, and guard us sleeping, that awake we may walk with christ, and asleep we may rest in peace.

general prayer for those in anxiety (i usually change “their” to “our” etc):

almighty god, who art afflicted in the afflictions of thy people: regard with thy tender compassion those in anxiety and distress; bear their sorrows and their cares; supply all their manifold needs; and help both them and us to put our whole trust and confidence in thee; through jesus christ our lord.

prayer for the departed (the first part is from the old latin, second part is local to my home church):

rest eternal grant unto them, o lord, and may light perpetual shine upon them. may the divine assistance remain with us always, and with our absent brethren.

sarah bessey’s a rhythm of prayer has breath prayers and a good one for righteous anger. i also use the jesus prayer as a breath prayer:

(inhale) lord jesus christ, son of god, (exhale) have mercy upon me, a sinner

i LOVE the angelus but can never find the translation i like on prayer cards >_<

common prayer: a liturgy for ordinary radicals by shane claiborne and jonathan wilson hartgrove has a lovely office as well.

#screams into the void #christianity #rustbeltbabey #learning how to use the prayer book is the best skill. you can find all manner of lovely collects and prayers for any situation #unfortunately in the old bcp there are some. ecumenically questionable prayers but you just skip them

[brookston]

Holidays 10.29

Holidays

Black Salsify Day (French Republic)

Bob Ross Day (Abeldane Empire)

Candies Day

Coronation Day (Cambodia)

C6HO Day (Kentucky)

Cumhuriyet Bayrami (North Cyprus, Turkey)

Cyrus the Great Day (Iran)

Feed the Birds Day (UK)

Festival of Global Climate Change

Fiestas Patrias begins (Honduras)

Halloween Eve Eve

Hermit Day

Hide From Everyone Day (a.k.a. Hermit Day)

International Internet Day

Laugh Suddenly For No Reason A Lot Today Day

Naming Day (Tanzania)

National Boner Day

National Book Day (Brazil)

National Cat Daddy Day

National Cat Day

National Hermit Day

National Martina Day

Oatmeal Day

PSC Awareness Day

Sea Slug Day

Separation of Church and State Day

Turkish Republic Day (Turkey)

World Online Networking Day

World Psoriasis Day

World Stroke Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Gnocchi Day (Argentina)

National Disgusting Little Pumpkin-Shaped Candies Day

National Oatmeal Day

Poperinge Beer & Hop Festival begins (Belgium) [Every 3 years, 3rd Friday, but postponed from 2021]

5th & Last Sunday in October

European Summer Times Ends (EU) [Last Sunday]

International Creole Day (Dominica, Saint Lucia) [Last Sunday]

Jounen Kwéyòl (Creole Day; Dominica, Saint Lucia) [Last Sunday]

National Grandparents Day (Australia) [Last Sunday]

National Student Baptism Day [Last Sunday]

Reformation Sunday [Last Sunday]

Visit a Cemetery Day [Last Sunday]

World Swim Hat Day [Last Sunday]

Independence Days

Turkey (from Ottoman Empire, 1923)

Westarctica (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abraham of Rostov (Christian; Saint)

Andrei Ryabushkin (Artology)

Chef (a.k.a. Theuderius; Christian; Saint)

Chiara Badano (Christian; Blessed)

Colman mac Duagh (Christian; Saint)

Douai Martyrs (Christian; Saint)

Gaetano Errico (Christian; Saint)

Ghatasthapana begins (Nepal)

Isis/Osiris Mysteries II (Pagan)

James Hannington (Anglicanism)

Kojagrat Purnima [15th Day of Dashain]

Lazarus Long Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Mary of Edessa (Christian; Saint)

Maximillian (Christian; Saint)

Narcissus of Jerusalem (Roman Catholic Church)

Nut Day (Pastafarian)

Robertson (Positivist; Saint)

Warren the Warthog (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Historically Unlucky Day [10 of 11]

Historically Bad Day (Stock Market Crash, Hurricane Sandy & 8 other tragedies) [10 of 11]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [58 of 71]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

All I Want for Christmas Is You, by Mariah Carey (Song; 1994)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with Alex Haley (Biography; 1965)

Being John Malkovich (Film; 1999)

Blue Moon, 24th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2019)

Bullwinkle Busts a Brush or The Cleft Palette (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 226; 1963)

BUtterfield 8, by John O'Hara (Roman à clef Novel; 1935)

Create Dangerously, by Albert Camus (manifesto; 1957)

Don Giovanni, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera; 1787)

The Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour (Radio Series; 1929)

Get Nervous, by Pat Benatar (Album; 1982)

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Film; 2010)

Hemispheres, by Rush (Album; 1978)

Hulu (Streaming Network; 2007)

The Huntley-Brinkley Report (TV News Show; 1956)

Jingle Bell Rock, recorded by Bobby Helm (Song; 1957)

Keeping Up Appearances (UK TV Series; 1990)

Last Night in Soho (Film; 2021)

Man of the Century (Film; 1999)

Mind Games, by John Lennon (Album; 1973)

My Generation, by The Who (Song; 1965)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (Animated Film; 1993)

The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James (Novel; 1880)

Portrait of a Moose or Bullwinkle Gets the Brush (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 225; 1963)

Princess Mononoke (Anime Film; 1999)

Ray (Film; 2004)

Red Riding Hoodwinked (WB LT Cartoon; 1955)

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now! (WB Animated Film; 2021)

The Sentinel, 25th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2020)

Trip for Tat (WB MM Cartoon; 1960)

Welcome to the Pleasure Dome, by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (Album; 1984)

What’ll I Do?, recorded by Frank Sinatra (Song; 1947)

Wild Target (Film; 2010)

Today’s Name Days

Ermelina, Hermelindis, Melinda (Austria)

Časlav, Honorat, Ida, Narcis (Croatia)

Silvie (Czech Republic)

Narcissus (Denmark)

Alf, Alfred, Fred, Fredi (Estonia)

Alfred, Urmasimo (Finland)

Narcisse (France)

Ermelinda, Franco, Grete, Melinda (Germany)

Abramios, Melina (Greece)

Nárcisz (Hungary)

Ermelinda, Michela, Massimiliano (Italy)

Elva, Elvijs, Fortuna, Laimonis (Latvia)

Gelgaudas, Narcizas, Tolvydė, Violeta (Lithuania)

Noralf, Norunn (Norway)

Euzebia, Franciszek, Longin, Longina, Lubogost, Narcyz, Teodor, Wioletta (Poland)

Anastasia (Romania)

Zinaida (Russia)

Klára (Slovakia)

Narciso (Spain)

Viola (Sweden)

Garrison, Cyrano, Cyrena, Narcissa, Narcissus (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 302 of 2024; 63 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 43 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Ten-Xu), Day 15 (Geng-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 14 Heshvan 5784

Islamic: 14 Rabi II 1445

J Cal: 2 Mir; Twosday [2 of 30]

Julian: 16 October 2023

Moon: 99%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 22 Descartes (11th Month) [Robertson]

Runic Half Month: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 36 of 89)

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 6 of 29)

#calendar #Holidays

[skippyv20]

Hello helloooo 🥸🥸🥸🥸

Hi again Skippy 😁

I read a paper online about the coronation.

Unfortunately, I am not even close of being a Royal correspondence nor I understand their law.

But today it caught my attention an articule I read about King Charles may have a bit of problem with the coronation since the church of England does not condone divorce Kings, plus, he acknowledges his betrayal to Princess Diana and married his mistress.

Is that true??…

This article best explains the situation….also, keep in mind…the CoE was started because of Henry VIII, who wanted to divorce and remarry against Catholic belief. So, I think if the Anglican Church can accept remarriage, the coronation is not an issue. King Charles is the head of the CofE….❤️

[canmom]

there is a sequence in disco elysium where you find a dead man in the docks, and you must go to tell his wife what happened to him. it's a standout impactful scene in a game full of brilliant writing; there is no joking, the many voices in your head are quiet - just you having to work out how to tell someone the worst thing they're ever going to hear. kim kitsuragi counsels you on the approach to take before you go in, and i never felt like the stakes were higher, and there was a serious sense of relief when i picked the 'right' dialogue options and played the role i needed to for that fictional woman.

it is so simple and yet, now I'm in this situation, it comes back to me.

we have cultural scripts around death and grief. in the past, when my friends have been hurting, i always feel like the things i say must seem like platitudes. things a robot could say. i tried to find a way to say something more substantial. but now i realise that these phrases - the I'm so sorry. the simple 'yeah.' the hug and heart emoji. the 'is there anything i can do' - are invocations of ritual. they need to be done. it's not the content itself but the act of expressing it.

i have been reading the Wikipedia article on grief. it might seem like a strange thing to do - to turn to a dry and rather meandering summary of scientific research on grief.

it's odd in a way - i feel like i need to show the world that I'm grieving properly - which is in a sense a way of saying that Fall was worth grieving. when i suddenly burst into sobs and someone says 'oh, honey...' and reaches out to touch me, there is some small part that observes this and says, good, I'm playing my role properly. my performance is convincing. which is crazy because like... there's as many ways to express grief as there are people. i would never think someone else is doing it 'wrong' somehow. someone who turned to black humour as a way to cope would be just as ~valid~ as me. and yet... i want the proper story to be observed. by doing this i cement that this really happened, and i cement what Fall meant to me.

one thing the scientists puzzle over is what exactly is the evolutionary function of grief. it seems maladaptive, to the evolutionary biologist. some reach for various kinds of signalling explanations. but the answer that makes emotional sense to me is that, you might as well ask what's the evolutionary function of blood spraying out when an artery is cut. this isn't proper functioning. a hole has been punched in the fabric of relationships - the 'trim'. everything falls into disequilibrium.

so why post through this? it's a work of magic I guess. I believe Fall was important, that she shouldn't just be forgotten by the world. so... i try to act like it. without really thinking about it, i make a show of the pain I'm in. i build an online memorial. i reach out to all the other people who are hurting and try to care for them and talk about her. if Fall's life continues to have an effect, if we carry her in the way we live now, then she's not truly gone.

there is another thing from Disco Elysium i keep thinking about. the working title of that game was No Truce With The Furies. for some reason, this phrase keeps coming into my head. it was written by the Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. Thomas was an Anglican priest and a nationalist, which predisposes me against him, but i feel like there is something truly powerful in that line. even though i don't understand what Thomas meant by it, i can feel a sense of heartbreak and defiance and determination to fight on. the furies suggest something supernatural and unknowable, beyond our power. to make truce with them would be to accept the limits of this existence and live less than fully, to close yourself off and become numb for the sake of avoiding pain. to make no truce is to continue to feel everything strongly, to accept the pain and still live passionately and furiously. that's what it means to me.

perhaps I'm simply projecting the atmosphere of Disco Elysium itself. regardless, this phrase has become something of a mantra. it pops into my head at random moments. (i imagine Fall would have had a way to build on it, some really fascinating cross cultural link.)

and this is what art is for, i guess. one of its purposes. if we can touch the truth of this things safely, in fiction, we have an anchor to hold onto when the horror reaches us in reality.

i don't really believe in afterlives. but i do believe in creating one through our words and deeds. the world would have it that Fall's body is the property of her parents, that her life is just a tragic statistic. reject it. we will remember her as she was, and she was brilliant. we will live on in the same way. no truce with the furies.

#memorial #suicide cw #introspective nightposting

[kylejsugarman]

how have we let literally every youtuber/content creator get away with butchering a non-anglican name and saying "sorry im probably pronouncing that wrong" and moving on. it literally takes two physical seconds to look up a name pronunciation online. if u cant find it, put out a request for help. its so disrespectful lmao put in a little effort

#syd squeaks #ive noticed that literally every kind of creator does it too like all of them #if ur going to make content especially content talking abt a person's story fucking learn their name dude

[angeltreasure]

I hope this isn’t a disrespectful ask but could you vaguely explain at all what the key differences between being part of an Anglican just ‘Christian’ church and calling yourself a Christian vs being a Catholic is and if you still agree partly with Christian’s ?

I’ve never been Angelican so I can’t speak for them, but people online sometimes will try to say that Catholics “aren’t Christians” because we believe in the Communion of Saints and the Holy Trinity, etc. In other words, they mistakenly believe “Catholics worship” the angels and saints as gods and goddesses instead of just God. There are so many that hate the Catholic Church because of what they think it is vs what it actually is.

I can probably give some light o your question through my own denomination. You can call yourself Catholic, but are you really a practicing Catholic who follows the Bible AND the Catechism of the Catholic Church, or do you just feel culturally Catholic or a cafeteria Catholic who picks what they want to believe and live it at their own convenience? Like, are you saying you’re a devoted Catholic but yet you’re voting in all these pro abortion people and advocating for abortion left and right while ignoring God. It’s probably the same for Angelicans. People online probably say false things about them too.

#asks #it’s not inappropriate it’s just I don’t have enough information #I don’t know any Angelicans to answer that

[businesstiramisu]

I think you may be mentally conflating High Church with Catholic. Anglicans, Lutherans, and maybe Methodists (? I don't know much about Methodists) are all High Church - venerate the saints, follow a liturgical calendar, receive sacraments, conduct formal and structured services. Think JS Bach (who was Lutheran). By contrast a lot of prominent American protestantism is Low Church: Baptists, Presbyterians, all the various Evangelical churches. If you're mostly familiar with Low Church Protestantism, High Church Protestantism can look very Catholic until you scratch the theology

Nah the CS Lewis thing was because I mostly hear Catholics talk about him online. My social circle is like the Supreme Court but with Asians,* and I've been to a few catholic masses but have very little personal experience with the actual religious practice of any sort of Protestantism.

Incidentally I *do* know a little bit about Methodists but only from reading the 1632 series -- Virginia DeMarce's take on the religious landscape of Grantville is one of my favorite parts of the series :P

#*the joke being that the Supreme Court was all Catholics and Jews for a while there #this might not be true anymore and it certainly wasn't true if you go back far enough in history #but i saw a lot of joking/discussion about it in the late 00s #religion #about me #1632

[peaceofthespirit]

hi! u did specify so u like. deffo didnt do anything wrong but still, would u mind calling ppl who take the bible literally "biblical literalists" or smth instead of "orthodox"? for obvious reasons lmao id rather my religion not be associated with a different meaning, and clarifying with "russian orthodox" also sucks because. uh. other obvious reasons why parts of eastern europe wouldnt want to have to define a part of their cultural identity as russian

ty a lot! again i understand the way u used orthodox there makes sense in context and everything just. yk specifically re: christianity it would b nice if u tried not to in the future😭

I mean, I don't personally care for using the word in that sense (for the reasons you said, Orthodoxy is its own tradition, and one that I do admire a lot btw!), but I'm referring to people I've encountered on twitter who are Anglican and all have "inclusive orthodox" in their bios, which is why I tried to explain it (in at least one of my posts) to avoid confusion. Idk if "Biblical Literalists" is quite the right word to describe them either because (as pointed out in a twitter thread that I shared on here), a lot of them don't take the Hebrew Bible literally (they believe in evolution, see the stories as allegorical, etc) but take the new testament literally AND see the creeds (at "face value") as the one correct interpretation/summation of the new testament. I know some people talk about "Capital O" Orthodox and lowercase "orthodox," but that gets confusing when online we often don't capitalize in general...

I'll make sure that if I mention them again like that I'll phrase it more like "so called 'inclusive orthodox' Anglicans/Protestants" in quotations and explain. And yeah I really do think that we need a better word or term to describe them, I'll try to come up with a good alternative!

Sometimes I like to refer to them as just "progressives", as opposed to unorthodox/heterodox, but that term is really broad and some of them reject that term and some unorthodox people embrace it so idk.

I will say too, that if you ever want to avoid having to call it "Russian" Orthodox if someone is confused, you could always say "Eastern Orthodox" or "Oriental Orthodox" or "[Insert Culture Here] Orthodox" and I think people generally will understand what you mean? Or I would hope so...

Thank you for pointing that out!

#ask #progressive christian

[bizarre-blorbo-bracket]

Round 3 Poll 4: Rev. Green from Cluedo vs Davis (Juror 8) from Twelve Angry Men

Propaganda:

Rev. Green:

1) Literally just a random board game character 😪 2) Ok so basically here’s the deal. One day, about a year and a half or two years ago, I saw some random thing related to Clue online. I (dual U.S. American and Russian citizen, because I was born in America to an immigrant parent, I PROMISE this is important) was confused because among the cast of characters was “Mr. Green”. Now, I hadn’t played Clue in a very long time. It wasn’t my favorite game as a kid, my only memories of it were wanting to play as Ms. Peacock and then my brother taking her and making me pick someone else, but I was pretty confident the character was Reverend Green. What happened? Was he excommunicated?? I kind of figured the name was just changed to reflect a more secular culture and that I had unknowingly played an old copy of the game as a kid.

But it fascinated me. So I spent months on and off researching the topic. (poorly, might I add, it wasn’t a complicated issue. But still.) I found out about many changes from version to version. Clue Junior, Clue VCR Mystery, Clue Master Detectives, all of it. And the whole time, Green was there to greet me in each new version. It was the first thing I always checked. Was he Mister or Reverend? I found out in one version he was a defrocked priest turned businessman, and in another a scam artist who pretended to be a member of the clergy to pull of a scheme. Closer. I ran polls, I went to irl Clue events, and eventually I found what I was looking for the whole time. Green was a Reverend in the 1944 patent of the game, and the subsequent 1949 U.K. release of Cluedo. But, because of fear that U.S. Citizens would take issue with a member of the church being suspected of murder, Parker Brothers changed the name to Mister Green for the U.S. release.

That all could have taken me five minutes of googling, but honestly the chase made the result so much more worth it. And yet, there was something more there in the back of my mind. This all was well and good, but why was I so sure of the U.K. version of the name? My father’s family is Irish so we have a pretty healthy hatred of all things British, there’s no way my dad would’ve had us play that version of the game. Right? But thanks to a response from a poll I ran, I found out that the German version also went with Reverend. Because Green is an Anglican, I kind of assumed that the U.S. change might have been carried over into other international releases. But no! That made me realize that Mister Green is an outlier and that almost all languages of the game use Reverend. So then last night the pieces finally clicked together. I asked my mom to confirm a hunch I had, not expecting her to at all remember something this trivial. Like I said, I didn’t play it much as a kid. Maybe we didn’t even own a copy, and I had just played it at a library or a hurricane shelter or a relative’s house or something. But she remembered. We did, in fact, own the game. Not just any version, but a RUSSIAN COPY. I unknowingly grew up with Cluedo! So I had every reason to believe it was Reverend Green and be confused when I heard otherwise.

Tl;dr, minor version difference between Russian and American copies of a board game gave me a hyperfixation and a blorbo.

Davis (Juror 8) (these are all from the single submitter)

a quick lil list babes, and I apologise for all of this in advance:

He's from the fucking film 12 angry men. like, aside from letterbox bootlickers and middle school hass students NO ONE has watched this film let alone care about it, it was made in 1957, is shot almost exclusively in one room and the entire film is just middle aged white men yelling at each other over whether some not white poor kid should be sent to the electric chair. what the fuck.

Henry Fonda, the actor, was 52 years old at the time of filming

Henry Fonda is the father of Jane Fonda, the woman who would revolutionise the 80's with her home workouts and her blindingly neon leg warmers.

His name wasn't revealed until the very end of the film and even then it's just "Davis."

I could honestly give him a lil smooch

He's absolutely not girlypop but he's the ally-iest ally who's ever allied

He's categorised as a "Benevolent Leader" on the Heroes Wiki

instead of the overwhelming urge for me to coddle him like most all other blorbos, i would appreciate it switched

I have a photo of him inside my saxophone case and sometimes i forget he's in there, then he creeps into my saxophone bell and when I play it he shoots out like a ballistic missile

Dude, on ao3 there's more fanfiction about the real life 80's British punk band The Clash than the entire film of 12 angry men, let alone Davis (80 fics come up under the clash, while 10 come up for 12 angry men)

I have a counter, and I've watched 12 Angry men a total of 145 times. The figure is up on my wall in tallies. whenever the number goes up, I like to watch it in 5's so then I can put another full group of tallies on my wall.

I have incredibly detailed stories about how Davis would boogie down to ringo starr's solo career, and they're written within the margins of a book called Tobruk written by Peter Fitzsimons. The only reason I reread that book is to wonder at my elaborate works of fiction

My HASS teacher was the one to introduce me to 12 Angry Men as he played it for the entire class. He gave us a set of questions to complete on the film and a few Law based questions as a little treat, and he expected it to be handed in the next day. What he didn't expect was an 11 page monster of a response that included social commentary, 4 paragraphs dissecting the character of Davis alone, deeply discussed comparisons between the landscapes of politics and law in the 50's to the present, and basically an entire point-for-point summarisation of the film, completed with obscure quotes from Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon and Presley (Elvis). He presented the printed masterpiece in front of the entire class to shame me.

After class he explained how his favourite Juror would either be 6 or 5, because 6 seems like a big dumb teddybear and he just liked 5. I explained how I liked Davis because he didn't want to send a kid to die, then he told me how Davis would make a good cowboy (at this point in time I was unaware of Henry Fonda's role in Once Upon A Time in The West) and I proceeded to go home and write a 3 part orchestral composition that I could pretend would play as the soundtrack to Juror 8: A Cowboy's Tale or something like that

I had started to make an animation meme starring Davis but only gave up when photoshop literally deleted itself from my laptop

I didn't even hear that Juror 8's name was Davis when I first watched it in class, somehow I only heard it on my 6th rewatch but when I did I literally got so excited I literally got winded and cried a little bit, I had to take a panadol because I got so lightheaded

I have learned the musical motif that plays throughout the film on saxophone, clarinet, recorder, guitar, bass, ukulele, piano and trumpet

I have visions of him

One of Davis' 3 children HAS to be gay and nothing can convince me otherwise

honest to god I'd be a home wrecker if it came to him

I quote not only Davis but the film a lot, and sometimes in the dead silence of all my friends I go on about how the old man couldn't have possibly made it to the door in such a short amount of time to see the kid running down the stairs (because the old man has a limp, and Davis proved it my limping around the room, which I have to say was incredibly attractive of him)

He's literally an architect

I once had a dream where Davis was in my bass guitar case when I opened it, and i literally just picked him up and started picking him like a bass guitar until I tried to play a full chord and he bit the hand that was meant to be on the fretboard. I dropped him and he fell on his ass, and when I said "what the hell dude what was that for" he said bass chords are lowkey ugly to listen to, and since then i don't like playing bass chords because now they're lowkey ugly to listen to. before this ordeal, i enjoyed them, but alas

i once got my romantic partner to write me a davis x reader fanfiction as a birthday present

my parents believe that Davis is my first celebrity crush, and while they're actually wrong it's still actually so embarrassing they believe that because OH MY GOD it's literally JUROR 8 FROM 12 ANGRY MEN

I've attempted slam poetry about him

I've eaten a paper printed full a4 size photo of his hand

I would also not mind him to be literally my father, but given the rest of the things I've just said about him that's really weird and I recognise that

#12 angry men #cluedo #clue #juror 8 #rev green #round 3 polls

[natura-est-sacellum]

Also, been reading more about the various forms of Christianity, as well as delving into the online communities of each. And, as a technical outsider still, I feel like Protestants really don't like Catholics, while Catholics are just happy you've found God. Like, Catholics will make jokes that you're not like actually saved or whatever, but it's a lighthearted acknowledgment of their differing styles. But I've seen non-Catholic Christian YouTube channels who like say the Daily Wire isn't a Christian company (I mean, it's not technically; it's just a right-wing media company with a focus on upholding traditional Judeo-Christian values), just because the number of non-Protestant Christians outnumber the Protestant ones (Ben Shapiro is an Orthodox Jew, Knowles and Walsh are Catholic, and Klavan is originally a secular Jew who converted to Christianity, attended an Episcopalian church for awhile and now considers himself an American Anglican...and Anglicans are kinda all over the place from what little I've read. Meanwhile, Jeremy Boering and Candace Owens are the only openly Protestants, and I think Brett Cooper is a non-denominational Christian, because she has talked about religion, but her show is more focused on culture...so she hasn't disclosed what she is exactly, but I def think she is a Christian of some variety).

But this one Christian blog (not on tumblr) was weird because they were analyzing some Christian music artists for their beliefs and they started bashing Crowder for being really interested in St. Francis of Assisi. Like...not gonna convert to Catholicism, just intrigued by a singular saint. And Lord, haven't we all been? Like, even in my deepest pagan days, I was greatly intrigued by various saints, namely Saint Brigid.

Also also, why are almost all Christian blogs/YT channels/music artists/etc. all fluffy bunny about Christianity? What happened to the medieval fire and brimstone outlook on religion? I cab handle that outlook, I can't handle the "everything you do in God's light is perfect and natural and totally okay"! Like no. Not everything I do is okay. Some things I do are really bad. And I know God understand, and He loves, and He accepts us as we are...but I don't think that's an excuse to constantly be a shithead without even trying to get better! It takes two to tango; how would you feel if someone you deeply loved consistently did things to disappoint you over and over again? You'd be upset, and you'd have right to be!

"Oh, but God is more forgiving than I, because I am a flawed human being and He is God". THAT'S NOT THE POINT! That's just being disrespectful to God, and then hiding behind it with more fluffy bunny bullshit. Do better. Be forgiving of yourself and others, obviously; if you're having a really hard time overcoming something, pray about it. God understands. He understands before you do, even. But don't use that "we're all inherently flawed and God just gets us, guise" as an excuse to be an asshead without bettering yourself!

Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk.

[divinityclergy]

On the Types of Cassock Robes

Consider yourself well-educated and worldly if you can even recognize a cassock robe and are not affiliated with the clerical assembly.

These unique clerical garments are common enough, but not well-known among laypeople.

Believe it or not, there are actually three distinct styles, as follows.

Anglican Cassock Robes The main difference between an Anglican cassock and a Roman cassock (see below) is the addition of two pleats along the front and back of the robe.

Another difference is that sometimes the Anglican-style cassock is worn without a cincture (although this is not always the case).

Black is the most common color, but in warmer locations white is sometimes common, as are themed colors associated with changes in the liturgical calendar.

Roman-Style Cassocks There is more than one style of Roman cassock, but the main traits in common among them are the inclusion of two pleats along the back as well as an opening at the front.

Roman-style cassocks were often made with buttons that communicated the wearer’s rank. Traditionally, they have been made with 33 buttons (along the front) which symbolize the 33 years of Jesus’ life.

They are also commonly worn with tab-collared clergy shirts that are commonly worn by priests in the Catholic church.

Choir Cassocks Finally, we have the choir cassock, which is an integral part of choir dress. Sometimes, choir cassock robes are sleeveless and intended to be worn with a clergy collar shirt underneath them.

Oftentimes, colored cassocks are also referred to as choir cassocks.

Who Wears a Cassock? Cassocks are typically worn by priests. Though they are often worn in conjunction with other robes during the officiation of a ceremony, unlike other vestments “proper,” cassock robes can be worn at other times of the day and when not engaged in official duties.

This makes cassocks sort of like the “everyday habit” of the priest. They may also be worn by other choir members.

Where Can I Find Quality Cassocks & Robes Online at Good Prices? When shopping for high-quality cassock robes, one of the most important things to be aware of is sizing. You’ll need not only your size but your length to ensure you get a cassock that fits.

It’s also important to ensure you shop with a company that is well-respected in the industry for the quality of its products. Consider Divinity Clergy Wear, online at DivinityClergyWear.com.

They carry a wide range of clergy cassocks, clerical attire, and accessories, including clergy shirts, in a wide range of colors and styles.

Their vestments and clerical garments exhibit high quality, are available in extended sizes, and are available with robe bags to protect their garments in transit and storage.

In addition to its website, Divinity Clergy Wear welcomes its potential customers to come and visit them in their showroom in Hamilton, New Jersey.

Their showroom is conveniently located about halfway between New York and Philadelphia and offers excellent resources for getting familiar with their clergy robes.

Consult their site for more details or contact them directly at 609-838-7154.

[troybeecham]

A Sermon for the Feast of Corpus Christi, Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

Fr. Troy Beecham

I suppose the first thing that I say is that this wonderful Feast a day is not commonly observed in most Episcopal Churches, though it is by the Catholic Churches and many Anglican Churches around the world.

Our celebration of the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ this year takes on, perhaps, a new and deeper meaning in this unforgettable period of tyrannical enforced isolation from gathering together in person for the Holy Eucharist in 2020 and most of 2021. Before the suspension of gathered worship and participation in the Holy Eucharist, few Christians had heard or were familiar with the practice of “spiritual Communion.”

But as Christians around the world turned to online liturgies due to the ruinous suspension of gathered worship, the experience of a spiritual Communion has become a spiritual lifeline for many. Desire for the Holy Eucharist, of being nourished by the Body and Blood of Jesus, kept alive through spiritual Communion, has deepened the longing of many to physically receive Jesus, Body and Blood, in the Holy Eucharist, and exposing the absolute indifference of the majority in non-Catholic ecclesial communities and Churches.

Making spiritual Communion is a visceral reminder of the negative reality of physical isolation from the real, sacramental presence of Jesus’ body and blood at every gathering of the faithful for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist. This period has perhaps also served as a positive reminder that our desire to be nourished by God’s grace is met by Jesus’ desire to be sacramentally present to us even when we are forbidden by false pastors and bishops to receive him physically.

The Catechism of the Church calls the Holy Eucharist the “source and summit of the Christian life”. Everything in the life of the Church and of each Christian soul finds its source and fulfillment in receiving the the Body and Blood of Jesus in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist at least once a week.

St. Paul offers this explanation in the second reading for this morning, saying “The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.”

Receiving Jesus’ Body and Blood in the Holy Eucharist has the effect of transforming us into what we receive by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, as St. Augustine once exhorted his community when he offered the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Jesus to his congregation , “Behold what you are, may you become what you receive!”

Jesus nourishes us with his Most Blessed Body and Blood to unite us to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and to all others in the community of the baptized, his Body of earth, his Church. Each time we receive the the Blessed Sacrament in our celebration of the Holy Eucharist, the repeated sacrament of our life and sanctification in Jesus, we partake of and become the “living bread that came down from heaven” that Jesus is for the life of the world (Jn 6:51-58).

The Body and Blood of Jesus that we receive in the Holy Eucharist is spiritual food given with the promise of Jesus in today’s Gospel that “whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life.” It should fill us with “eucharistic amazement” that God desires such unity and closeness with us that he gives us the Body and Blood of Jesus his Son to eat and drink.

The Holy Eucharist is the deepest, richest spiritual reality that ultimately defies our attempts to control or regulate God’s grace, and to give it up out of fear or because of the tyranny of the faithless leaders in our midst is a terribly grace mistake to make. The wolves in sheep’s clothing in our government and in Church leadership seek to weaken us by threatening us should we dare to gather to celebrate the Holy Eucharist. The Catechism describes the Eucharist as “thanksgiving and praise to the Father,” as “the sacrificial memorial of Christ and his body”; and the ongoing presence of Jesus “in the power of his word and of his Spirit”. How could we ever allow anything lot anyone keep us from God’s presence and power to redeem and restore us? How can we ever again submit to anyone who would seek to keep us from being in communion with God?

At every celebration of the Holy Eucharist we encounter Jesus in the blessed bread and wine, in the person of the priest who acts in the person of Christ the head, in the sacred Holy Scriptures of God proclaimed, and in each other, the assembly of all the baptized gathered to worship God in faith and thanksgiving.

Today if your receiving of Jesus is through Spiritual Communion due to illness, oppression, or tyranny, pray:

“My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.”

If today you are gathered in person to celebrate the Holy Eucharist and to receive Jesus, Body and Blood, in-person, I pray that you are enfolded in the deepest joy and amazement, praying

“Eternal God, heavenly Father, you have graciously accepted us as living members of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ, and you have fed us with spiritual food in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood. Send us now into the world in peace, and grant us strength and courage to love and serve you with gladness and singleness of heart; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”

The LORD bless you and keep you, the LORD make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the LORD turn His face towards you and give you peace.

And may the peace of God, which passes all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord; and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be amongst you, and remain with you always. Amen.

#father troy beecham #christianity #troy beecham episcopal #jesus #father troy beecham episcopal #saints #god #salvation #peace #faith #early church #theology #new testament #holy trinity

[chikucab21]

Explore the top 10 places to see in Chennai

Introduction

Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nandu, is a lively and progressing metropolis in India, which is a perfect example of a city in which the old traditions and the new trends are combined. This city has an array of historical backgrounds, styles of architecture, and the popular seafront along the Bay of Bengal which are intriguing and pleasurable for tourists to enjoy. With cab service in Chennai, we will explore the ten places you cannot miss which portray the core character of this vibrant city. 

1. Marina Beach: Marina Beach, known for its long coastline and sandy beaches, is an iconic destination and places where people stroll, jog, or just sit and admire the view. It is a favorite spot for both locals and visitors to hang out, and you can find anything from the wonderful waterside stroll to recreational activities here being enjoyed. The famous Almar Marina Lighthouse and statues dedicated to famous men such as Mahatma Gandhi are fine places to see by cab booking in Chennai. 

2. Kapaleeshwarar Temple: Located at Mylapore, this temple is named after Lord Shiva and is the temple that fairly represents the Dravidian style of architecture. The temples that are graced by gopurams, which are adorned with eye-popping sculptures and the sacred pool, make an astoundingly beautiful atmosphere. The inner area has the principal sanctum, which has the Brahman God Kapaleeshwarar and Goddess Saraswathi as the main deity and her consort respectively. 

3. Fort St. George: In the year 1644 the British East India Company built here towards the south the present Fort St. George, the oldest British fort in India which has survived till the day. While it was the epicenter of British power during colonial times, it now stands as the headquarters of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and other offices of the government. The fort compound consists of St. Mary's Church, the oldest Anglican church in India and even the Fort Museum that holds man-made objects, arms, coins and records to enable you have the history of Chennai during the colonial days.

4. San Thome Basilica: Saint Thomas Cathedral is an eminent Catholic church standing over the reliquary of St. Thomas, the apostle who left his last shadow in India before converting locals to Christianity. The cathedral's Neo-Gothic architecture, which is erected of tall and wonderful stained glasses, is a symbol of Chennai's skyline. Saint Thomas’ devotees and those simply curious among the visitors arrive by online taxi booking Chennai to show his respect and look at the cozy interior decorated with religious artworks.

5. Government Museum: The Government Museum is an establishment built in 1851 and it is one of the oldest museums in India. It offers vast exhibits, each with an intersection of several natural science fields like archeology, numismatics, zoology, botany, geology, and art. The showcase is a combination of all- killer bronzes of Chola dynasty and marbles of Amaravati, Roman antiquities, Mohenjo-daro artifacts, etc. The good overall impression of this museum collection helps to see the comprehensive history and heritage of South India.

6. Valluvar Kottam: Valluvar Kottam is the place of the remarkable Kottam decorated to the medieval Tamil poet and philosopher, Thiruvalluvar, who had made his famous book Tirukkural. The place has a well-known 39-meter chariot structure and a statue of Thiruvalluvar. The auditorium of the complex is usually hosts cultural events and functions answering true cultural Tamil culture with tempo traveller in Chennai.

7. Arignar Anna Zoological Park: Unequalled in South Asia, Vandalur Zoo is distributed across plenty of space. Being the host of many wildlife species belonging to the class of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians, it is a rich biodiversity area. The zoo is orientated on conservation and teaching, the animal facilities are considering spacious enclosures designed to imitate natural habitat. Visitors may viewing that safaris, open-air auto, and play with various animal species.

8. Besant Nagar Beach: Edward Elliot's beach another coastal stretch to the well-known Besant Nagar beach to the city, which is known for it’s lined up bordered with trees and to its providing a relaxed ambience. Though initially it was more popular with the locals, now it’s a favored relaxation spot for both the tourists and residents alike, who flock there to have fun, engage in beach activities, and enjoy beautiful sunsets. Shopping and restaurants line the beach side. Along with this, visitors can also enjoy locally made snacks and tantalizing seafood specialties.

9. DakshinaChitra Museum: Schooled just outside Chennai, DakshinaChitra is a living history museum which demonstrates the traditional architecture, crafts and lifestyles of the Southern region of India. Museum complex includes houses of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh which are ancient time heritage houses. These houses display artifacts, tools, textiles and art work from the period of their construction. Visitors will get a chance to discover, immerse, and experience various South Indian elements that relate to their culture and tradition in an interactive manner.

10. Thousand Lights Mosque: It is a mosque situated in the heart of Chennai. It is well-known for its distinctive architecture and value-adding history. The name denotes the thousands of oil lamps which once used to enlighten its inner chambers. The architectural design acquires sophisticated ornamentations like delicate arches, marble finishes, and a big central prayer hall that can accommodate a substantial gathering. Unity of Religions found in the Mosque is a perfect marker of peace and architectural beauty to see tempo traveller rental in Chennai.

Conclusion

Gaining insights into these 10 must-visit sites will take you on a fascinating journey through the very core of this amazing city, so let it leaves with you a most exciting experience ever and a deeper understanding of its cultural and present day representations. Whether you are a history enthusiast, nature lover or just seeking for immersive cultural experience, you will love travelling by taxi service in Chennai.

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