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Thewitness OCTOBER 27, 1966 Publication TheWITNESS OCTOBER 27, 1966 publication. and Editorial reuse for All Christians are Saints required Permission Articles DFMS. / World Peace and World Communion Church John M. Krumm Episcopal the of Worshipping our Self-Made Gods Frederick J. Warnecke Archives 2020. Called to be Saints Copyright Alanson B. Houghton NEWS: Episcopal and Roman Catholic Scholars Discuss the Eucharist. Hans Kueng f Talks About Coming Great Church •••• SERVICES The Witness SERVICES In Leading Churches For Christ and His Church In Leading Churches NEW YORK CITY ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH EDITORIAL BOARD Tenth Street, above Chestnut OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. Sunday: Holy Communion 7, 8, 9, 10, JOHN MCGII.L KHUMM, Chairman The Rev. Alfred W. Price, D.D., Rector Morning Prayer, Holy Communion and W. B. SPOFFORD SB., Managing Editor The Rev. Gustav C. Meckling, B.D. Sermon. 11; Organ Recital, 3:15 and EDWARD J. MOBX, Editorial Assistant Minister to the Hard of Hearing sermon, 4. Sunday: 9 and 11 a.m. 7:30 p.m. Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 7:15 O. SYDNEY BARB; LEB A. BEDFORD; ROSCOE Weekdays: Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., (and 10 Wed.); Evening Prayer, 3. T. FOUST; RICHARD E. GARY; GORDON C. 12:30 - 12:55 p.m. GRAHAM; DAVID JOHNSON; HAROLD R. LAM- Services of Spiritual Healing, Thurs. 12:30 and 5:30 p.m. THE PARISH OF TRINITY CHURCH DON; LESLIE J. A. LANG; BENJAMIN MINIFIE; TRINITY WILLIAM STRINGFEI.LOW. Broadway & Wall St. CHRIST CHURCH Rev. Bernard C. Newman, S.T.D., CAMBRIDGE, MASS. The Rev. W. Murray Kenney, Rector Acting Rector Sunday Services: 8:00, 9:30 and 11:15 a.m. Sun. MP. 8:40, 10:30, HC 8, 9, 10, 11. EDITORIALS: — The Editorial Board holds Wed. and Holy Days: 8:00 and 12:10 p.m. publication. Daily MP 7:45, HC 8, 12, Ser. 12:30 Tues., Wed & Thurs., EP 5:15 ex. Sat.; monthly meetings when current issues before the Church are discussed. They are dealt CHRIST CHURCH, DETROIT and Sat. HC 8; C Fri. 4:30 & by appt. 976 East Jefferson Avenue with in subsequent numbers but do not The Rev. William B. Sperry, Rector ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL necessarily represent the unanimous opinion 8 and 9 a.m. Holy Communion (breakfast reuse Broadway & Fulton St. of the editors. served following 9 a.m. service) 11 a.m. for Rev. Robert C. Hunsicker, Vicar Church School and Morning Service. Holy Sun. HC 8:00, MP & HC Ser. 10; Week- Days, 6 p.m. Holy Communion. days MP & HC 8:00, HC 12:05 ex. Sat., CONTRIBUTING EDITORS (also 7:15 and 1:05 Holy Days); Int. 1:05 THOMAS V. BARRETT; JOHN PAIRMAN BROWN; PRO-CATHEDRAL OF THE required ex. Sat.; EP 5:10 (ex. Sat., 1:30); C Fri. HOLY TRINITY 4:30-5:30 & by appt.; Organ Recital Wednes- GARDINER M. DAY; JOSEPH F. FLETCHERS- 23 Avenue, George V days 12:30. FREDERICK C, GRANT; HELEN GRANT; COR- PARIS FRANCE WIN C. ROACH; BARBARA ST. CLAIRE; MAS- Services: 8:30, 10:30 (S.S.), 10:45 sey H. SHEPHERD JB.; W. B. SPOFFORD JR. Boulevard Raspail CHAPEL OF THE INTERCESSION Student and Artists Center Permission Broadway & 155th St. The Rt. Rev. Stephen Bayne, Bishop The Very Rev. Sturgis Lee Riddle, Dean Leslie J. A. Lang, Vicar The Rev. Donald D. Weaver, Canon Sundays 8, 9, 11; Weekdays: Mon. Fri. THE WITNESS is published weekly from The Ven. Frederick McDonald, DFMS. / Sat. 9; Tues. 8; Wed. 10; Thurs. 7. September 15th to June 15th inclusive, with Canon Chaplain the exception of one week in January and ST. LUKE'S CHAPEL bi-weekly from June 15th to September 15th Church 487 Hudson St. by the Episcopal Church Publishing Co. on NEW YORK CITY Rev. Paul C. Weed, Jr., Vicar behalf of the Witness Advisory Board. Sun. HC 8, 9:15 & 11; Daily HC 7 & 8. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH C Sat. 5-6, 8-9, by appt. Park Avenue and 51st Street Rev. Terence J. Finlay, D.D. Episcopal The subscription price is $4.00 a year; in 8 and 9:30 a.m. Holy Communion 9:30 and ST. AUGUSTINE'S CHAPEL 11 a.m. Church School. 11 a.m. Morn- the 292 Henry Street bundles for sale in parishes the magazine ing Service and Sermon. 4 p.m. Even- of Reverend William W. Reed, Vicar sells for 10c a copy, we will bill quarterly song. Special Music. Reverend Jeffrey T. Cuffee (Priest-in-Charge) at 7c a copy. Entered as Second Class Weekday: Holy Communion Tuesday at Matter, August 5, 1948, at the Post Office 12:10 a.m.; Wednesdays and Saints Day, Sundays: 8:00 a.m. HC, 9 a.m. Sung Mass, at 8 a.m.; Thursdays at 12:10 p.m. 10:45 a.m. MP, 11:00 a.m. Solemn Bi- at Tunkhannoclt, Pa., under the act of Organ Recitals, Wednesdays, 12:10. Eve. Archives Lingual Mass; 4th Sunday 10:00 a.m. Mass March 3, 1879. Pr. Daily 5:45 p.m. in Spanish; Weekdays: 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. HC, 9:15 a.m. MP, 5:15 p.m. EP 2020. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY ST. CHRISTOPHER'S CHAPEL Write us for 316 East 88 th Street 48 Henry Street Sundays: Holy Communion 8; Church School 9:30; Morning Prayer and Sermon 11:00. Copyright Reverend William W. Reed, Vicar Reverend James L. Miller (Priest-m-Charge) Organ Information (Holy Communion 1st Sunday in Month). Sundays: 7:30 a.m. HC, 9:00 a.m. Sung Mass, 11:15 a.m. Mass in Spanish, 5:15 AUSTIN ORGANS, Inc. p.m. EP Weekdays: Monday and Wednes- GENERAL THEOLOGICAL day, 8:00 a.m. HC; Tuesday, Friday, Satur- Hartford, Conn. SEMINARY CHAPEL day 9:00 a.m. HC, MP before each Mass, Chelsea Square 9th Ave. & 20th St. 5:15 p.m. EP Daily Morning Prayer and Holy Commun ion, 7. SHARING (7:30 Saturdays and holidays) THE CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY Christian Healing in the Church Daily Choral Evensong, 6. York Avenue at 74th Street Only Church magazine devoted to Spiritual Near New York Memorial Hospitals ST. THOMAS Hugh McCandless, Alanson Houghton, Clergy Therapy, $2.00 a year. Sample on request. Founded by Rev. John Gaynor Banks, D.S.T. 5th Ave. & 53rd Street lee Belford, Charles Patterson, Christopher Rev. Frederick M. Morris, D.D. This paper is recommended by many Senyonjo, Associates Sunday: HC 8, 9:30, 11 (1st Sun.) MP Sundays: 8 a.m. HC; 9:30 Family (HC 3S) Bishops and Clergy. 11; Daily ex. Sat. HC 8:15, HC Tues. Thurs. HC 11 a.m. Address: 12:10, Wed., 5:30. One of New York's FELLOWSHIP OF ST. LUKE Noted for boy choir; great reredos most beautiful public buildings. 2243 Front St. San Diego 1, Calif. and windows. \0L. 51, NO. 34 The WITNESS OCTOBER 27, 1966 FOR CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH Editorial and Publication Office, Eaton Road, Tunkhanrwck, Pa. 18657 Story of the Week by the Episcopal Church as Episcopal and Roman Catholic being validly ordained is cele- brant, asking how the service Dialogue on the Eucharist therefore could be accepted as valid. publication. •* Episcopal and Roman Cath- ment of the Gospel" for Bap- Anglican members of the dis- and olic participants in a third theo- tism and Holy Communion, the cussion group, it was stated, logical dialogue session in difference was found- to be "agreed to disagree on this reuse Providence, R. I. issued a call basically one of terminology, point." for for increased prayers for Chris- since Episcopalians believe in Fr. Tavard's paper, which was tian unity and announced that the sacramental nature of holy not made available at the press their discussions had revealed orders. conference but which is to be required "the possibility of an unpre- "Both Churches believe that printed later, described the cedented measure of agreement men are set apart for the minis- function of the priest and the on the character of the Eucha- try of deacon, priest, and bishop congregation in the Eucharist rist ..." by an act of God in the Church Permission and discussed the practical and While it was clearly pointed through prayer and the laying psychological function of the out that many questions remain on of hands by the bishop. It priest in the world of God. DFMS. / about the Eucharist — the sub- was agreed that ordination gives In his paper, Wolf stated that ject to be pursued at the joint man grace and authority for a it is "no longer possible to use group's next meeting in the life-long ministry." traditional manuals of theology Church Milwaukee, Wis., area in May— At the same time it was noted to compile a paper on 'The Min- the discussions showed basic that the discussions brought out ister of the Eucharist.' " agreement on the need for a "the fact that some Episcopali- "The revolution in historical Episcopal special minister or priest as ans receive Holy Communion knowledge and the developing the celebrant. from non-Episcopal ministers at ecumenical orientation of the of The three-day closed session, ecumenical gatherings . caus- Churches," Wolf said, "have it was stated at a concluding ing Roman Catholics to ask how rendered obsolete much that press conference, opened with this could be done without prior once seemed very clear and un- Archives general agreement that while doctrinal agreement on ministry complicated. people offer their service of the and sacraments." 2020. "Catholics have recognized Eucharist according to their Basic discussion papers on increasingly the wide diversities position as persons of God, a the role of the priest as cele- of ministry in the New Testa- special minister or priest should brant of the Eucharist were ment and are less likely to read Copyright be present.
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