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14: People & Places

THE LMNG.CHORcH magazine-is{>ublisbed 'Dyta.e ·nMng'Chm-eh ltotm:d.a.tlon, fnc. tb,.e.hl!:doxfo,.nnssi'C>ti 'o'f the 'Living Church Foundation tsto promote · andsupport Catholic -within.°"the Epi~copal Churc_h. NOVEMBER.29, 2009 ·THHlV lN.G CHURCH' _.3 8c-lid O~l Cnews CHOIR CHAIR Sojourning Anglicans Praise Vatican's Plan The Vatican has now released the proved by the ." full text of Benedict XVI's con­ One of the warmest responses to stitution, Anglicanorum Coetibus, the plan has come from the Rt. Rev. which explains in detail how Angli­ John Fulham, chairman of Forward cans will be welcomed into the Ro­ in Faith-United Kingdom. man . "Today all the accompanying papers The constitution includes these de­ have been published and they are ex­ tails: tremely impressive ," Bishop Fulham • "A Personal Ordi nariate is en­ said in a statement on Nov. 9. "What trusted to the pastoral care of an Or­ Rome has done is offer exactly what dinary appointed by the Roman Pon­ the has refused." tiff. The Rt. Rev. John Hepworth of the • "Those who m.inistered as Angli­ Traditional Anglican Communion of­ can deacons, priests , or ... fered specific praise for Pope Bene­ may be accepted by the Ordinary as dict XVI. with FIBRE RUSH SEAT candidates for Holy Orders .. . Un­ "He has dedicated his pontificate to married m.inisters must submit to the the cause of unity," he said. Since 1877 norm of clerical celibacy. He then praised the pope's proposal: R.Geissle~ Inc. • "The Ordinary, in full observance "It more than matches the dreams we of the discipline of celibate in dared to include in our petition of two 2641 E. Greystone Ct. the , as a rule (pro reg­ years ago. It more than matches our Eagle, ID 83616 prayers . In those two years [since pe­ Phone : (800) 862-3159 uf,a) will admit only celibate men to www.rgeissler.com the order of presbyter. He may also titioning the Vatican], we have become petition the Roman Pontiff ... for the very conscious of the prayers of our admission of married men to the order friends in the Catholic Church. Per­ of presbyter on a case-by-case basis, haps their prayers dared to ask even ADVERTISERS ... according to objective criter ia ap- more than ours. " Plan ahead now! Swedish Consecration Received Coolly The double-circulation Swedish press reports that the bishop Alan Harper , said the arch­ Winter Church of England and Church of Ire­ bishop would "not think of this in Administration land would boycott the consecration tenns of a 'boycott.' " The archbishop of a partnered lesbian priest as Bishop received an invitation, he said, but de­ Issue is of were not true, spokes­ clined to attend. January 3, 2010 men for the The Archbishop of Armagh "has con­ (delivers 12/21/09) and Archbishop of Armagh told THE veyed to the Church of that Lrv!NGCHURCH before the service. the will not be offi­ Ad Close: 12/1 Nevertheless , no episcop al repre­ cially represented at the episcopal con­ sentatives from the Churches of Eng­ secration in Uppsala," Mr.Harron said, Final Ad Due: 12/ 4 land or Ireland , the Church in Wales or as the "Church of Ireland is observing Take advantage the Scottish Episcopal Church at­ the moratorium" on the consecration tended the Nov. 8 consecration of the of clergy with same-sex partners. of this great opportunity Rev. Eva Brunne by Swedish Arch­ David Brownlie-Marshall, a spokes­ to promote new products, bishop of Uppsala. man for the Archbishop of Canter­ services, special events The Swedish Christian newspaper bury, said the Church of England or conferences. Dag en reported on Nov. 3 that the would be represented by the Area Church of England and Church of Ire­ Dean of the Baltic and Nordic States Contact: Tom Parker land would boycott the ceremony as a of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe, [email protected] sign of their displeasure with the ordi­ the Rev. Nicholas Howe, chaplain of or (414) 276-5420 nation of Pastor Brunne, who lives with St Peter and St. Sigfrid's Church in ext. her partner, a fellow Church of Swe­ Stockholm. 16 den pastor, the Rev. Gunilla Linden. The Rt. Rev. V. , Paul HaiTon, a spokesman for Arch- (Continued on page 11)

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By Christopher Wells the Word of God incarnate and crucified , whose words are "spirit I. Word of the cross CROSS and life" (John6:63; cf. Phil 2:1:II.). "Simon, son of John, Do yoUsJove Anglicans of a Catholic stripe as Curriculum me?" "Lord, youknow everything; were especially implicated , and in­ you know that I love you. " "Feed vested, in the recent news from the my sheep " (John 21:17). And per­ Vatican announcing the creation of for Catholic Unity haps we think of the pericope as . a mechanism that. provides some ending there. Jesus goes on , how­ cover for traditionalists seeking visible reconciliation with ever, to explain the form that Peter's pastoral ministrations the Roman Catholic Church on at least partially Anglican will take -stretching out his hands and being led where he terms [TLC, Nov. 8 and Editorial, page 10]. Of course , all par­ does not want to go (forecasting "the kind of death by which ties of the Anglican Communion disc~ed the story , as did [Peter] would glorify God, " writer explains) . Af­ other shapes and sizes of Christian , and even avowed secu­ ter tlii.s, finally, in John 's gospel , Jesus says to Peter , "Follow larists . And one couldn't help but be struck by the relative me " (21:18-19). paucity on all sides of careful or learned commentary- in­ who would make their words like the "true cluding criticism - in contrast to the preponderance of bread" from our Father in heaven (John 6:32; cf. Matt. 7:9) openly or transparently self-serving reaction, subsisting in a must feed one another food that will last , the "solid food" of stew of uninformed and half-informed historico-political those who are no longer riven by "jealousy and quarreling ; coajecture, hearsay , prejudice, and rant "On Things Broadly because they have disciplined their tongues with "the word. within Thls Field ." There are so many instances of this that of the cross" (1 Cor. 3:2-3 and 1:18). Thls, after all, is where there is no point in picking one or several out from the lot. Paul begins in his address of the divided Corinthian com­ Do a Google search of Catholic Anglican ordinari,at,e and munity: not with the communion of the blood and body of choose among the hundreds of stories , essays , blog entries, our Lord, which is the centerpiece of later chapters , but with and so forth that turn up. the humiliation of conformity to Christ in his death, which One might expect from the secular world - the clam­ the Corinthians had not yet made their own. "What I mean orous nations and peoples that Scripture dubs gentiles (see is that each of you says, 'I belong to Paul, ' or 'lbelong to Matt 5:47 for a dominical instance) - steady streams of Apollos, ,:-or 'I belong to Cephas' " (1:12). "But we proclaim vested incomprehension, and even malevolence, in response Christ crucified , a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to major inter-Christian developments. But when churches to Gentiles" (1 Cor. 1:23), a properly baptized word of love. and church leaders raise their voices to demonstrate a sim­ Liturgical scholar Gordon Jeanes observes that Romans ilar expertise in the art of invidious comparison and self-ag­ o...... ::. into Christ's death - has functioned in. the grandizement (to say nothing of open mockery , derision, and as a kind of exhortation to spiritual martyrdom sfrice much else) , it is to our shame. Where.are, among others , the the fourth century. Prior to·that point, when "martyrdom was ecumenists? - the ones who , in Robert Taft's wonderful def­ a real, however unlikely, prospect, " the liturgy "did not need inition , seek "to move Christian love int,o the realm of schol­ to emphasize the death image because it was fostered else­ arship " in part by standing as the "implacable enemy of all wher e," namely, in the life and death of the martyrs-them­ forms of bigotry, intolerance , unfairness, selective reporting , selves and their actn,,object lessons that quickly focus the and oblique comparisons that contrast the unrealized ideal mind In such a context, baptismal candidates might just as of one 's own church with the less-than-ideal reality of some­ well meditate on a text like John 3:5: "no one can enter the one else's. " kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit " We need more careful reading and writing ,joined to a pas­ "But as the Church became part of the establishment," con­ sion for charity. And if we are to love charity- a strange lo­ tinues Jeanes , "we see the martyr image and the challenge cution - and toil on its behalf and in its service , in thought, of the gospel pass over from the individual confessing their word , and deed, and so take on its form , then the Passion of faith before the judge to the baptismal candidate opposing Charity himself must surely command our attention, as well: (Continued on next page)

-NOVEMBER29. 2009 ' THE tlVING CH URCH 5 By Christopher Wells

(Continued from previous pa~) of 1947 to the end of 1956 I knew nothing from that quarter Saran and dying with Christ in the font, and to the ascetic in [namely, the V_atican]but an upinterrupted series of denun­ the desert, putting self to death." For "the law of the Chris­ ciations, warnings, restrictive or discriminatory measures tian Church living the gospel" ineluctably involves a call to and mistrustful interventions." His groundbreaking Chre­ de~ -however "intuitively, unre:tlecting, unconsciously" tiens ~ni5-had direadyappeared in 1937, wherein Congar much of th,e time, as prayers repeat.ed over and over seep wrote that experience and theology alike "demonstrat.e that into the spirtt and reform the will: "lex orandi, lex vivendi ." the profoundest needs of souls are everywhere the same , that But Paul's fust-person plural and his conditional - "if we nothing is more like an evangelical who really prays than a have been united with him," "if we have died with Christ" Catholic who really prays." And yet, he continued, "our sin (Rom. 6:5, 6:8)- also bear an ecclesial, hence ecumenical, and wickedness have entombed the unbroken unity of Chris­ significance, since they co:ajure the whole, the ka,t,aJwws of tendom" At the intersection of courageous thoughts such as catholicism. "How is it possible to remain divided, if we these "any number of priests and laymen and numerous have been 'buried' through baptism in the Lord's death, in the bishops" reported t,o Congar at the Council of their having very act by which God, through the death of his Son, has bro­ been "awakened to or more often converted to ken down the walls of division?" asked Pope John Paul II. a broader and more traditional sense of the Church" by read­ The question itself ~at.es the historical divisions of the ing his early book Church to the fact of a single body "through the cross" (Eph. The thought is intriguing in the present climate of fash­ 2:16), standing as ifs)$ (Rev. 5:6), which pennits a more ionable suspicion of ecumenism: that one may be 14con­ precise description of o~situation : verted" to the movement for Christian unity not as a capitu­ For we also have good scriptural reason to suppose that lation to either forces of traditionalist suppression or waves our continuing oppositi.011to ( and-forgetfulness of) one an­ of progressive innovation but rather as an awakening to "a other, our pride and _lack ofthe love that St. John teaches is broader and more traditional sense of the Church." The lan­ the distinguishing mark to the world of our discipleship guage suggests that we still have work t.o do; that we have (John-13:35; cf. Matt. 24:12), may yield a death, and perhaps some dist:ance yet to tr:avel before our communion, and our many deaths. The Christian would exclaim with Paul: "I die joy, may be complete. every day!" (1 Cor. 15:31), placing her hope in that strange The theme of incompl,etenessamid ecclesial division fa­ proverb: "What you sow does not come t,o life unless it dies" mously occurs in Ramsey's writings, and was appropriat.ed by (1 Cor. 15:36). Why not also in this ecumenical field? In this Archbishop Williams in an astonishing 2004 lecture on Ram­ case, Col 1:24 seems tailor-made for people like us, whom sey (mediat.ed by Ephraim Radner's Hope among the Frag­ the Lord would have rejoice not despite but on account of ments) that sought to focus, like Paul, on the completion of our sufferings "for the sake" of one another, thus "coIIJ,plet­ God's "gift of new life" alwa~ and only in the "passion and ing" in our flesh "what is lacking in Christ's aftlictions for the self-giving" of Christ's body. The same idea may be found in sake of his body ,-thatis, the Church." Vatican II, which spoke of the Church's "fullness" - like her unity, holiness, and catholicity - under the sign of analogy and eschatology, at once given and anticipat,ed as gifts not II. The way of completeness hers to possess. On the one hand, the salvific efficacy of "the separated churches and communities," according to the De­ New situations demand "a new outlook and new meas­ cree on Ecumenism, "comes from that fullness of grace and ures," wrote the bishops assembled at the Lambeth Confer­ truth which has been entrusted to the Catholic Church" ence of 1920 in a resolution addressed as an "Appeal to All (Unitati5 redintegratio 3). On the other hand, Roman Christian People." And I wonder if all manner of Catholics, in­ Catholic ecumenical action must be "directed towards that cluding Anglicans, could not agree that part of the outlook fullness to which our Lord wills his body to grow in the and measure that we are called to rodayincludes what Amer­ course of time" (UR 24), a fullness now impeded by divisions ican Lutheran Michael Root has termed "a more nuanced that "prevent the Church from attaining the fullness of form of ecclesial loyalty."Wttile "we must do theology within catholicity proper to her" (UR 4). On this account, Lumen specific ," in "hlstorically concrete" communities gentium, the Council's great ecclesiological document, con­ · that.are not "imaginary and invisible 11·<~mstrncts,writes Root, cluded that the Church "exhorts its children to purification it is also true that "no church as a chm:cll in VW, is identical and renewal so that the signof Christ may shine more clearly with the perfectly unified Church in glory .... Our conceptual over the face of the Church" (LG 15), upon which Avery and institutional loyalties" accordingly "must always bear (in Dulles commented that "while Vatican I claimed unequivo­ varying ways in our various churches) a certain limit" cally that the Roman Catholic Church already is an ir­ Anglicans may be reminded here of Michael Ramsey's refragable sign of its own divine origin, Vatican II acknowl­ Gospel and the Catlwlic Church (1936, revised in 1956), but edged openly that the Church, as sign, stands in continual other precedents may be cif.ed as well. One thinks, for in­ need of refurbishment" stance, of the saintly French I>ominican Yves Congar, who ex­ Congar had already imagined how an as yet formally urrini­ ercised a great influence upon -the tiated Roman Catholic ecumenism might proceed in a 1947 (1962-65) and was made a cardinal at the end of his life, but essay that thoroughly impressed Ramsey when he finally also experienced a difficult period of under the pon­ could read it (Congarwas fustrefused permission to publish tificate of Pius XII. As Congar lat.er wrote, "from the beginning by his superiors, but it appeared in a collection of essays in

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- - - -= ·. . . - -i. 1964, and in translation.,,~ o years lat,er). Wrote Congar: ing with us." He also did not doubt, however, that the ~ torical fate of-Ood's people recounted in the a new point oiv.i_ewand an appropriate method of~ - including the "remarkable" book of Judges, captivity fu proach [will] rely neither on a program of conversion Egyptand Babylon, and finally "the great~hism of the t.en nor on the application of 'missionary' methods. It [willJ tribes under Jeroooam" - demonstrates that "Almighty not consist directly in leading our separated brethren, WJSdomdoes not firid"'a whole host of"irregalarities and di& either individually or in groups, into confessional ad­ orders .. . inconsistent with the continuous and progressive herence to the Catholic Church such as it is at the mo­ fulfillment of its purposes." Andthe point is surely borne out ment. To be sure, no Catholic worthy of the name in the history of "the Catholic Chtrreh" (here disj;inc_tfroJll would refuse help to a separated brother who, doubt ­ what Newman calls "the Roman Church"), not merely in ing the truth of own position, wished to become a his tennsof Catholic. Nevertheless , the ecumenical worker as such feels himself impelled to work for unity at a different corruptions in life and morals ... , or of the errors of in­ level and in a different way. For him the aim is to help dividuals, however highly exalted, but of the general dis­ other Christian communities and, if one may so speak, organized and schismatical state of the Church, her his own Church also, to approach and converge upon practical abandonment of her spiritual pretensions, the the plenitude which lies before us, in the light of which tyranny exercised over her by the civil power, and the integration will~ be able to ~e place. intimate adherence of the worst passions and of cir­ cumstantial irregularities to those acts which are vital Some 100 years prior Jo1m Henry Newman wrestled with portions of her system. the Church's incompl teness, both as an Anglican and as a Roman Catholic . Prior t()' his-highly visible translation to The guilt, Newman was convinced in 1837, must be Rome in 1845, Newman wrote Tract90 (1841), which starts parceled out ecumenically: in the Anglicaninstance with ref­ from the premise that "therr are real difficulties [forJ a erence to Archbishop 's possibly invalid Catholic Christian in the ecclesiastical po.5ition of our chtrreh consecration under Elizabeth's special license in 1560 at this day." For this reason, if the Church of England is to (though God, of cour.se, "may carry on his work amid human be reformed- "perfected ... in humiliation and grief, [not] sin"); before that in terms of "the scandals of the Council of in pride, elation, and triumph" - wrote Newman, she must Ephesus," with bishops, West and East, not ~aiyrtg for follow a course of "repentance and confession" that properly one another, forming "hostile parties," and so on ( e~en as begins by "sit[ting] still" And more than that "let her children all rightly assented in the end to the condenmatjon of be content to be in bondage; let us work in chains; let us sub­ Nestorius); and again, with reference to "the great West­ mit to our imperfections as a punishment; let us go on teach­ ern Schism" of the 14th and 15th centuries and its two or ing with the stammering lips of ambiguous formularies, three rj.val , to which , along with "similar miserable and inconsistent precedents , and principles but partially disorders," Newman attributed "the licentious and pro­ developed" - not fainting therefore "under that body of fane movements" of the 16th century , "and the present death " but bearing it about "in patience " until we "are wasted and enfeebled state of the Church, including otir stirred up" to a new "religious course" by the one who will own branch of it." On all cormts, that "the Day of Judg­ "do for us what we cannot do for ourselves." Bondage, ment is literally ever at hand" explains the Church's ex­ work, submission, and even death may, in this line of perience in history, her perpetual ailment and weakness, thought, be provisions-Of providence along the path to a "always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord renewal initiated from without. Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest One perhaps sees-the theme in Newman most usefully for in her body" (2 Cor. 4:10), as Newman's Authorized Ver­ ecumenical purposes in the last of his Lectures on the sio_n renders the Pauline declamation. Prophetical Office of the Church, published in two editi~ns in 1836 and 1837, and again notoriously in 1877 with a new preface and a new title, '!'he Via Media of the Anglican III. Holy communion of death Church. Taking as his topic "thef(?i;pmes of_the Chm;c~" and resurrection Newman's argument is founded in an;.exegesIS of Gods ir­ revocable call and promise to scriptural Israel which gen­ Much can be said regarding the strands oFJ:V in- erally cannot be "forleited," though it will be "suspended or fluence and reciprocity that reshaped our chore · ~s in impaired" from time to time as we err, or are "under-rebuke, the 20th century- the astounding accomplishments, for or apostates and devils" ( citing Rom. 11:29 and Psalm 89:32- instance, of the bilateral and multilateral dialogues with 34: "then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their respect to the traditional loci of comparative debate. iniquity with stripes; nevertheless,My i,wing-kindness will These must be taught and studied by all the churches, and I not utterly tnke from hi'ff!,;nor suffer my faithfulness to then put into practice, far more than -they have been . fail"). Newman presumed, rightly or wrongly, in his Angli­ Propaedeutic to the entire ecumenical movement! how­ can-apologetic posture of the 1830s, and no doubt all the ever: has been an acceptance by most Christian _commu- more as a Roman Catholic, that "we are not reprobates, but nities' that -0ur divisions do not prevent our " shanng. ,, that, amid whatever scandals , we have faith and love abid- (Continued on nexf page)

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(Continued from previous page) seem small. The call to visible communion is no ruse of the (koinunia) even now in the life of the one body, incor­ idealistic- or perhaps the manipulative, from another per­ porating a common experience of the passion as an spective - who seek to solve the problems of history ab­ earnest of certain resurrection. stractly. Communion is first of all God's act, or it is nothing: The insight is profound, and runs through every ecu­ God, who would make by teaching us to "lmow love menical classic, from the early Anglican and Orthodox and by this , that he laid down his life for us - and we ought t,o pan-Evangelical statements, through Couturter and VISSer't lay down our lives for one another" (1 John 3:16). Just this Hooft and successive World Council of Churches assemblies, is "the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ to John Paul Il and beyond. "We cannot discern all that will Jesus" (Phil. 3:14). Athletes "exercise self-control in all be disclosed to us when we look to Him who is the Head of things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an the body and affinn our oneness in Him," wrote the authors imperishable one. So I do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as of the Faith and Order report at Evanston in 1954. "We lmow though beating the air, but I punish my body and enslave it, that we shall be changed, but wherein we shall be changed so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be dis­ we cannot lmow until, in the act offaith and self-denial, we qualified" (1 Cor. 9:25-27). are given to discern, through crucifixion and resurrection, These words are not theoretical to the Christian, since the the lineaments of the one true which our sin­ alternative is a dead end (see Rev. 3:1), or the lukewarm pro­ ful dividedness obscures from ourselves and from the fession of those who plead "I am rich, I have prosper~ and world." The matter deserves more sustained attention than I need nothing," but who are "wretched, pitiab le, poor, blind, it has received if the future of God's design for all the and naked" (Rev. 3:17). In this perspective we can under ­ churches is one of visible, reconciled unity. In this case, the stand the perennial pertinence of Paul 's warning that skep­ labor before us will, as always, be of a primarily spiritual sort, tics, who mutter "foolishness" under their breath in the face called by Ramsey "scriptural holiness." of ostensible impossibilities, are the ones who are "perish­ For Anglicans and other non -Roman Catholics, part of our ing" (1 Cor. 1:18, following 1:lOff.). For where "is the one who work must include reexamination of the inherited litanies of is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this "difficulty" that we have "felt," and are sure that we at one age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world" in point suffered urtjustly, when presented with "Catholic teach­ the person of his crucified Son, "the power of God and the ing" (playing here on the title of Newman's two-volume wisdom of God" (1 Cor. 1:20, 24)? Perhaps also, in this per­ polemical work, gathe1ing texts from 1850, 1864, and 1874). spective, the call to sacrifice some measure of our supposed That is, we must accept at least the spirit, if not the letter­ autonomy - our freedom to teach independently of the after more than a century of ecumenical progress - of wider body, and to separate from one another at will, and Newman's variegated challenges to his former Tractarian willy nilly- will not seem so severe. Jesus, after all, "for the allies , to move them off the dime of their cherished ani­ sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, mosities and prejudices . For all our expressed frustrations disregarding its shame . ... Consider him who endured such with the "dry, hard and unsympathizing" tenor of Roman hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not teaching, in Dr. Pusey's phrase, and the predictable re­ grow weary or lose heart" (Heb . 12:2-3). And there is more, joinders that we "are unfair and irritating" - for "We for the writer indicts his readers, however couched in the give you a sharp cut, and you return it" - appear to have gentle prods of a parent: "In your struggle against sin you been indicative of a deeper, antecedent "wound, " as New­ have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood man says, a wound that remains in our midst now, across And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you the lines of apparent separation , because "our ancestors as children: 'My child, do not regard lightly the discipline of were all under the cloud , and all passed through the sea, the Lord, or lose heart when you are punished by him; for the and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same Lord disciplines those whom he loves, and chastises every spiritual drink" (1 Cor. 10:1-4). Indeed, if the pains of de­ child whom he accepts' " (Heb. 12:4-6). nominational isolation have passed or are passing , and Our common would have us read such texts many of the difficulties (sueh as they were) dispelled; and contritely , in the hopeful posture of repentance; and "God if we have uncovered, all around and from every direction , has given even to the Gentiles the repentance that leads to unsuspected affinities and common ways and means of life" (Acts 11:18)! Along this road of the passion we are teaching, shaped by one and another solidaritY, it will all the formed in the communion of the gospel - finally in the Eu­ same not be for want of having walked together through the charist, which above all would teach us to claim -and re­ darlmess and despair of the wilderness, where we were - nounce our failures ( and those of our ancestors) by pinning and are , as often as needed - justly "struck down" (1 Cor. them to the cross. 10:5). For God who is faithful tests us, "on whom the ends of the ages have come," so as to provide a way out., and a way 0 God, by the passio n of your blessed Son you made an back to the endurance of love that is the "communion" of instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of Christ (1 Cor. 10:13,16). life: Grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ, that we In this perspective, even when we are occupied and ex­ may gladly suffer shame and loss for the sake of your hausted by internecine ecclesial battles, our call is to sanc­ Son our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with tified love of God and neighbor because, paradoxically you and the , one God , for ever and ever. enough, the chances of success, or appreciable progress, Amen. (Collect for Tuesday in ) •TLC

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Days of Fire and Glo:ry women living in community were as­ ings regarding the human stewardship By Julia Duin . Crossland Press . Pp. 346. saulted or raped by neighborhood thugs. of creation. In six self-contained but re­ $24.95. ISBN 978-0-9790279-7-0. Fr. Pulkingham engaged in multiple sex­ lated chapters, Theokritoff examines ual affairs, and preached sermons that the writings of the , the the early 1970s my family took a pil­ In urged sacrificing family members when ascetic tradition, saints' biographies , grimage to . I was young enough more important things , like late-night liturgical texts, theology, to be most excited about seeing the As­ pastoral counseling, required it and modem Orthodox writings to ex­ tro World theme park, but my parents Other cases of adultery developed plicate a beautiful vision of what she had a more pious focus for the trip: vis­ among leaders of the Redeemer com­ calls "the presence of God in his cre­ iting Church of the Redeemer. I remem­ munity. A fixation with the shepherding ation" and "the sacredness and sacra­ ber these things about our visit to Re­ movement led to broken engagements if mentality of the entire visible uni­ deemer: The service felt interminable; one influential person said, "I have a verse." Throughout the book, the passing the peace was like an extended check in my spirit" Some couples left to author asks hard questions about hu­ seventh-inning stretch; a haunt­ be married anyway. Some sin­ man responsibility for environmental ing mosaic behind the gle members left because they destruction , but she also mines tradi­ imagined Jesus among working were burned out Many found tional Christian spirituality for con­ folk; and one song, "Here that living in intentional com­ structive ways forward both inside and Comes Jesus, n so lodged itself munity is steadily abrasive to outside the Church. in my memory that not even Americans ' love for freedom The book's subtitle makes clear that years of vigorous hymn-singing and personal autonomy. it is written from a specifically Ortho­ have purged it If the Church of the Re­ dox perspective, but it will be useful For my parents and later for deemer described here were and interesting for many others . It is me, Redeemer became the a friend, you might find that the fourth of five volumes to date in model of charismatic renewal friend manic-depressive. Ms. the St. Vladimir's Sem inary Press in the Episcopal Church. The choir was Duin interviewed nearly 200 former and Foundations Series , published since backed by acoustic guitars and tam­ continuing members of Redeemer to tell 2005 on topics that "draw upon the bourines! People were free to show emo­ this comprehensive story. She has a sym­ riches of the Orthodox Christian tion at church! The boldest members pathetic publisher in Crossland Press, Church's tradition to ad­ lived among the poor in intentional com­ founded by Leon Podles , who has writ­ dress the modem world." munity! If only we had been fortunate ten his own exposes about the crises of Other titles have focused enough to live in Houston . Roman Catholicism in the . on bioethics , interreli­ By the late 1980s, when I interviewed It would be a mistake to cons ider gious dialogue, and dog­ the Rev. Graham Pulkingham, who had Days of Fire and Glmy an indictment of matic or spiritual topics . overseen Redeemer in those halcyon all charismatic renewal , or of ministry Li ving in God's Cre­ days, I encountered a brusque and dis­ that continues today at Redeemer or of ation is situated very missive man. Something seemed off the late Fr. Pulkingham's ministry as a much in the mainstream about him, but I wrote a profile of him whole. Instead , it is a realistic and often of modem Orthodox and that was that. heart-rending account of how God will thought - exemplified by My longtime friend Julia Duin at­ use even stiff-necked sinners to perform Patriarch Bartholomew tended Redeemer in the years she wrote his wonders. That should not surprise of Constantinople and Metropolitan for the Houstnn Chronicl.e,and in Days anyone who understands Christian doc­ John Zizioulas , among other promi­ of Fire and Glmy she reports at length trine, but it still results in an arresting nent theologians. Theokritoffs mes­ on the triumphs and the problems of the work of religion reportage. sage, building on the recent work of congregation. Douglas LeB/.anc these thinkers, deserves a wide audi­ Under Fr. Pulkingham 's leadership , ence. As she writes: "Every act of care Redeemer grew from a small, struggling and responsibility toward God's cre­ url>an parish into a considerably larger ation, human and non -human, is a url>anparish. Its members helped rescue Living in God 's Creation practical assent to his plan of salva­ a nearby public school from threatened Orthodox Perspecti ves on Ecology tion. It signals our willingness to be closure . They made deep :financial sac­ By Elizabeth Theokritoff. St. Vladimir 's co-workers with the Almighty in bring­ rifices to emulate the early church and Seminary Press. Pp. 265. $19. ing his creation to the fulfillment for ISBN 9780881413380. live from a common pool. They took which it was made. " risks to preach the gospel in Houston's This new book by Orthodox theolo­ Richard J. Mammana , Jr. counterculture. gian Elizabeth Theokritoff brings to­ New Haven, Conn. As with any community of fallen peo­ gether critical thinking about modem ple, problems arose. Some led far more eco logical crises and careful scholar­ frugal lives than others. Some of the ship about the Chur ch's ancient teach-

NOVEMllER29 . 2009 • THE LIVING CHURCH 9 of the baptized, " after all, does not e:rtjoya common editorial articulation of "the teaching of the Apostles" nor a common celebration of "the breaking of the eu­ Wounded Church charistic bread ." Rather, division has encamped The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the within the bounds and body of the Church - "among Faith has now released the text of Pope Benedict the baptized in Jesus Christ," in the pope's fascinat­ XVI's , Anglicanorum Co­ ing phrase. It follows that the Church is wounded, the etibus (literal translation: "groups of Anglicans," a pope concludes, both in herself and in her mission. phrase from the first sentence of the document), That the Vatican would offer here again - as in with the subtitle "Providing for Personal Ordinaliates other texts of the Congregation for the Doctrine of for Anglicans Entering into with the the Faith, since 1992, and also the Catechism of the Catholic Church. " Catholic Church (at n. 817) - an of Much can and should be said about the provisions of the Constitution and its accompanying norms, which, both in their details and in their larger eccle­ siological implications, mark a significant develop­ ment in the Roman Catholic Church's willingness to The division is rathe r create a permanent, juridical space for self-governing and self-perpetuating "Anglican faithful" in full com­ munion with the Holy See. We expect to return to this more intra than inter . matter in these pages, as long as interest and ques­ tions persist . (For starters , read the fine commentary on "The significance of the Apostolic Constitution" by Fr. Gianfranco Ghirlanda, S.J., Rector of the Pontifical wound , this time at the outset of a text that intro­ Gregorian UniversitY, at tinyurl.com/Vaticanll-9.) duces a gracious provision for itinerant, Catholic­ We begin , however, with the pope's summary , in minded Anglicans, should go a long way to alleviate paragraphs 2-4 of the Constitution, of some basic "ec­ fears of undue and untoward Roman triumphalism. clesiological principles" of Roman Catholic teaching If the one Church of Jesus Christ is wounded by dint at and after the Second Vatican Council, principles of inter-Christian divisions, then the Christians in that continue to radiate a courageous creativity of ec­ question must already be caught up in the life of the umenical self-understanding. Body of that Church. The division is rather more in­ Many will miss the nuances here, because they tra than inter. presume at the outset that Rome is announcing its tri­ This apparently means in part that none of us, in­ umphant welcome of poor, disheveled and other­ cluding Roman Catholics, are yet enjoying the full ­ wise homeless Anglican vagrants into the simple, ness of Catholic communion, a vitally important uncomplicated fullness of "Catholic communion, " point that the frequency of the phrase "full com­ "governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bish­ munion" in ecumenical literature potentially ob­ ops in communion with him." The poor, disheveled, scures. We do, however, experience a certain or real and homeless part may be basically correct; but the communion with one another already , as the Coun­ uncomplicated fullness part isn't. cil and successive popes have said: a communion , To be sure , the communion of the one Church of through the death of baptism and no doubt other Christ is not only invisible but visible, like the In­ deaths, of conformity to the Body of Christ who suf­ carnation of the Word, the pope reminds us. And the fered, died, and was buried before rising in glory. epicenter of that visibility "subsists" in "the bonds of In this perspective, if there is a note of triumph in the profession of the faith in its entirety, of the cele­ the Apostolic Constitution - in the envisioned visi­ bration of all the instituted by Christ, and ble reconciliation of some groups of Anglicans with of the governance of the united the Apostolic See - it is sounded amid a larger, with its head, the Roman Pontiff, " according to Ro­ plaintive cry that echoes the prayer of "the Lord Je­ man Catholic law (synthesizing a fistful of sus .. . to the Father for the unity of his disciples," as conciliar texts from , Unitatis red­ the pope says; a prayer uttered "before shedding his in tegratio, , and Ad gentes ). blood for the salvation of the world." To have said this is, in Rome's view , to have May our Lord's prayer and his sacrifice both be al­ marked the basic structural realities of the visible ways on our lips and in our lives, to the glory of Church that persist, by God's grace, despite rebellion God, for the sake of the Church and her mission, and and hard-heartedness on all sides. "The communion the salvation of our souls.

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Reinterpreting the Canons (SWEDEN, from page 4) Bishop of New Hampshire, said he With the supposed "renunciation" of would suggest that a more common had "no plans to attend the conse­ Bishop Keith Ackerman, the Presiding problem today is looking through po­ cration, " but noted that "it's wonder­ Bishop againshows her inability to un­ larized glasses: glasses that restrict ful to see a church which chooses its derstand the Canons of the Church the view that reaches the wearer, clar­ bishops based on their experience, [TLC, Nov. 8]. The original purpose of ifying the image they wish to see. This skills, and faithfulness , rather than this canon was, in essence, to "defrock" tendency to seek out the world view on gender, sexual orientation and the clergy who abandoned the ministry of we desire, to the exclusion of distrac­ the Episcopal Church for ministry in tions or contradictions, prevents us like - a commitment I believe the other churches/denominations ( e.g., from seeing any hint of truth in op­ Episcopal Church has now made ." Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran) . posing viewpoints or pursuing com­ The consecration of Pastor Brunne This did not include leaving for other promise in developing solutions. follows the Oct . 22 vote by the Provinces of the Anglican Communion. For example, in the Episcopal Kyrkomotet, the church's governing If Episcopal priests were called to An­ Church, many who see the blessing of assembly, to permit clergy to conduct glican in Canada, England or same-sex unions as a human rights is­ same-sex church weddings. elsewhere, they didn't renounce their sue do not acknowledge how this posi­ Writing to the Archbishop of Upp­ orders in the Episcopal Church; they tion might undermine Scripture or in­ sala on June 26, the Archbishops' simply transferred jurisdiction by a let­ fluence individual behavior. Many who Council of the Church of England ter from the bishop. oppose even civil blessings may be said the adoption of gay marriage by With increasing ease, the Presiding overlooking the need to provide legal the Swedish church is problematic. Bishop has taken it upon herself to protection for partners in these rela­ The "teaching and discipline " of reinterpret this canon. It was my un­ tionships. Before we follow a path that the Anglican Communion is that "it derstanding that Bishop Ackerman re­ will divide the Church, we need to take is not right either to bless same-sex tired as a "Bishop in Good Standing" of off our "polarized glasses" and look for sexual relationships or to ordain the Episcopal Church. Asking to be responses to concerns that apply rea­ those who are involved in them, " transferred to another jurisdiction of son without discarding scripture and the Archbishops' Council said . the Anglican Communion after retire ­ tradition. (The Rev.) George C. Conger ment should not, and must not, be in­ What good is a terpreted as meaning abandonment of Church commu­ the ministry of the Episcopal Church. nity in which we (The Rev.) Steven A. Scarcia hide behind our Former TEC Emmanu el Church polarized glasses, Change Their Borders Little Falls , N. Y. fighting to defend our world view while As two former Episcopal dioceses ignoring the vision that others bring to held their annual conventions in the table? This type of community will No Conclave early November, they began to in­ create winners and losers, but it will not corporate congregations from across The editorial comment on a letter by provide the unity, wisdom and spiritual the diocesan borders that previously William Keller [TLC,Nov. 8] states that nourishment that we need . Taking off bound them. Newman "did not exercise his right to our polarized glasses will help us see The Anglican Diocese of Pitts­ vote for a new pope. " each other more clearly and possibly re­ burgh welcomed Harvest Anglican This is correct but possibly mislead­ veal solutions that are not simply a Church, Homer City, Pa; Church of ing, since readers might infer that he compromise, but are based on a deeper the Transfiguration, Cleveland, Ohio; declined to participate in a papal con­ understanding of the truth. Holy Trinity Church , Raleigh, N.C.; clave. Newman was created cardinal Ralph Spence, Jr. and St James Church, San Jose, Calif. in 1879 by Pope Leo XIII. Leo died in Billings, Mont. 1903, 13 years after Newman, so there The Episcopal Diocese of Fort was no conclave during the remainder Worth (Southern Cone) received the of Newman's long life. On the Road Again Church of Christ the Redeemer, Fort (The Rev.) Lawrence N. Crumb Worth, and St. Gabriel's Anglican Eugene, Ore. I thought of an old TLC tradition the Church, Springdale , Ark., as new other day when spotting this New missions. It also welcomed three ex­ Hampshire license plate on Maple Ave. isting parishes : St. Francis ', Dallas; Polarized Glasses in Keene, NH: 143 GOD St. Matthias' Anglican Church , Dal­ We have all heard the phrase "look­ An erudite Trinitarian , I would say! las; and Church of the Holy Spirit, ing through rose colored glasses " to Would you? Tulsa, Okla describe people who view things op­ Alan 0 . Dann On Oct. 30, the Episcopal Diocese timistically, maybe excessively so. I Brattleboro, Vt. (Contin ued on next page)

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(BORDERS, from previous page) recen tly estab lished Anglican District thal, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee went to court against St. in the Northeast. of Southern Ohio, announced to his Andrew's Church, Nashville, which "In the Northeast we had ten diocese's annual convent ion Nov. 6 left the Episcopal Church in 2006 and parishes that were interested in doing that such blessings will begin as of has since announced its affiliat ion miss ion and :mirustry together," he told Easter 2010. with the Diocese of Quincy (Ill.). THEI.JvING CHuRCR "They were not con­ "It is my view that the recent Gen­ The Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin nected except by bishop visitations. eral Convention resol utions D025 and (Southern Cone) has welcomed three "We are going to coordinate on C056 have altered the terrain, by re­ neighboring California parishes - overseas missions and concentrate on asserting the possibility of godly St. Andrew's in the Dese1t, Lancaster; the possibility of planting new unions between persons of the same St. David's, San Rafae~ and Santa Maria churches. We're also talking about try­ sex, and by inviting bishops who have de Juquila, Seaside - and Jesus the ing to plant some churc hes up here in jurisdiction in states that have offered Good Shepherd, Henderson, Nevada. the rocky soil of the Nort heast." some form of civil union to gay and In the context of the Anglican Dougf,a,s LeBlanc lesbian co uples to exercise 'pastoral Church in North America's constitu­ generosity' in offering the church's tion, such an elastic definition of dioce­ public ministrations to such couples," san borders is a feature and not a bug. Southern Ohio to Allow Bishop Breidenthal said in his address The Convocation of Anglicans in to the convention. North America (CANA) is establishing Same -Sex Blessings The bis hop stressed that no clergy one type of network within ACNA: re­ Two resol utions of the Episcopal of the diocese are obligated to bless gional districts . Church's 76th General Convention same-sex coup les, "and the position of The Rt. Rev. David Bena, a suffra­ have prompted another bishop to those who wish not to perform any gan bishop of CANA and a former suf­ grant permission for blessing same­ such blessings will be respected and fragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Al­ sex couples . honored. I wish to do whatever I can bany, is guirung the growth of the The Rt. Rev. Thomas E. Breiden - to allay any fears on this score ."

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How Long, 0 Lord? "Stay awake at all times" (Luke 21:36a). BCP: Zechariahl4:4-9; Psalm 50 or 50:1-6; 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13; Luke 21:25-31 RCL: Jeremiah 33:14-16; Psalm 25:1-9; 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13; Luke 21:25-36 Expectation of the return of Christ in ward you ... " (2 Peter 3:8-9). diet the time of the event and will be glory was high in the first generation of We are now almost two millennia surprised by it: "Concerning times and the Church. In Paul's earliest letter since the first generation of Christians seasons, ... you yourselves are fully (about AD. 51), he wrote of this com­ was keyed up over expectation of the aware that the day of the Lord will ing and could refer easily to "we who imminent return of Jesus, and Jesus come like a thief in the night" (1 Thess. are alive" when that coming happ ens has not returned . Yet the lectionary for 5:1-2). How can we reconcile these two (1 Thess. 4:15). That it didn't happen as this first Sunday of the liturgical year themes? Should we try? Is it important soon as the first believers expected was starts us off with the prophecy of the to do so? a grave disappointment to many of Second Corning. What are we 21st cen­ At the least, the faithful may believe them, and was probably the first "crisis tury Christians to make of it? that God keeps his promises and fulfills of faith" experienced by the Churc h. The scriptural evidence is strong his prophecies , but it is abundantly ev­ Many believers lapsed. with two themes about "the great Day ident in Scripture and experience that More than 50 years later, when it was of the Lord," "the coming Judgment, " predictions about how he does so are obvious that the Second Coming had the Second Corning of Christ. The first almost always highly inaccura te. What not occurred when the first Christians is that we should be able to read the is indisputable is that we are called and expected it, their teac hers had to ex­ signs: "Look at the fig tree and all the commanded to live at all times ready plain the delay; we read, "with the Lord trees. . .. So also, when you see these for the end, whether it is the Second one day is as a thousand years ... The things taking place, you know that the Coming or the day we die, and that ei­ Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as kingdom of God is near" (Luke 21:29, ther way it will be for us a day of joy. some count slowness , but is patient to- 31); the second is that we cannot pre- Beyond that is mystery. Next Su nday The Second Sunday of Advent (Cycle C), Dec. 6, 2009 BCP: Baruch 5:1-9; Psalm 126; Philippians 1:1-11; Luke 3:1-6 RCL: Baruch 5:1-9 or Malachi 3:1-4; Luke 1:68-79; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6 Think About It Look It Up Many scientists predict that all life on our planet will dis­ What did Jesus tell his disciples about the timing of the coming appear in less than a billion years when Earth's atmosphere of the Kingdom of God? See Acts 1:7. Compare this with Reve­ will have vanished, and that the planet will fall into the sun in lation 9:15, which speaks of "the hour, the day, the month, and about 7.6 billion years. Do these predictions have any impli­ the year" of the judgment, Le. the precise time hidden in the fore­ cation for the Christian belief in the Second Corning of Jesus? knowledge of God.

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While studying community through preaching and teaching, and lead us to Priests at Oxford from 1964 to 1967, he served as growth and stability to become a program-styleparish. assistant chaplain of Keble College and We seek a rector who will deliver biblical and contemporary Georgia - Stan Christian, assistant, St. assisted at St. Mary Magdalene Church. In issue sennons; who will support a strong youth ministry; and who will provide guidance for daily living. This will require Thomas', PO Box 33, Thomasville, GA 31799; 1968, Dr. Heidt accepted a call as Episcopal a rector who will be able to recogniz.eand nurture new lead­ LeighHall , chaplain, Georgia Southern Univer­ Chaplain at the University of W1Sconsin-Mil­ ers in the church. sity, P.O. Box 1146, Statesboro , GA 30459; Ira waukee and taught on the of Mar­ We also seek someone with administrative skills in order to Jackson, associate, Grace Church, PO Box 771, quette University. 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In 1996 he ORGANIST-CHOIRMASTER seeks full-time position died Oct. 15 at University of Kentucky accepted a call as rector of Christ Church, with corporare-siz.edsubwban/urban parish with well-estab­ Medical Center. He was 77. Dallas. He retired in 2003 and accepted an lished music program. Master's degree, 30 years' experience in the Anglican choral/liturgical tradition. Strengths are in Dr. Barr was dean of the College of Edu­ appointment as Canon Theologian for the choir training (RSCM program for children, teens, adults), cation at Eastern Kentucky University for 27 Diocese of Fort Worth. He edited the service playing, liturgy, teaching, pastoral _care, program years before retiring from education . A grad­ bimonthly magazine Forward in Christ and administration.Engaging. collegial, oigaoiz.edworking . uat;e of Ball State, he received his mast;er's wrote numerous articles for THE LrvlNG Part-time parish and school position in area also considered. and doctorate degrees from Columbia, and CHuRCH.He is survived by his wife, Katherine; Contact John Brooks at jbrooks356@gmailcom and (301) 987-0487. furthered his theological education at St. sons Christopher and the Rev. Michael; and George's College, Jerusalem, and at the Lex­ daughters Elizabeth , Katherine and Teresa. TRAVEL/PILGRIMAGES ington Theo logical Seminary. He was or­ Worldwide Pilgrimage Ministries is a fullyaccredited travel dained a deacon in 1994 and a priest in 1996. ministry that arranges adult, youth and choir spiritual jour­ He served as a canon of Christ Church Cathe­ NormanC. Hoffmann , 82, a lay leader in neys to Israel,Turkey, Greece,Italy, England, France, Spain, dral and as director of the Diocesan School the Diocese of Albany, died Sepl 3 at Scotland, Ireland and South Africa We offer a full range of for Ministry . Most rece ntly, he was assistant Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, NY. cruises. Phone: 1-800-260-5104; E-mail: wwpil3@aoLcom; at St. Hubert's , Lexington. Dr. Barr was He was born in St. Louis, MO, and had Website:www .worldwidepilgrimage.com. known widely as an outstanding genealogist been a resident of Niskayuna, NY, for 40 VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY and had given many lectures on the subject, years. Mr. Hoffman was a member of St. as well as on educatio nal and theological Stephe n's Church, served on the Standing Is the Religious Life for You? If you are single, male, subjects . In addition to his wife, Frances , he Committee of the diocese, was a deputy to and interested in living a traditional Benedictine life write to: Vocations, St. Joseph Monastery, 114 Live Oak Dr., is survived by two sons, Edward of Lexington General Convention , and was presiden t of Natchez, MS 39120 or visit www.osbms.org or e-mail and John of Housto n; a daught;er, Elizabeth the Metropolitan . He is survived by [email protected] for more information. Masters of Lexington; three step childr en , his wife, Charline, and daughter , Kathryn .

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