THETRINITARIANSM OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF THE ANGLICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH / JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 T 6 A A L 4 I D H N T 1 D E G 3 T R T L L E S S E I R . C S E T I N A S L O E A I N R N T T V A , C I I C C R A S E O I T T A R . H E N 8 Q 0 O 1 U L 2 E I 0 S C T E C D H U R C H P e U D r N m . P The C. S. Lewis Student Center is located in a house on the University of South Carolina campus. e S o i n . t n A v P N - e o P r I s o r , t o D C . a 5 f g O i 3 t e 7 WHERE FAITH, 7 COMMUNION CULTURE MEET TIES BETWEEN C. S. LEWIS CENTER: ACC, CIPBC AN OASIS ON CAMPUS RESTORED s so-called “safe spaces” aimed at shielding The ACC and the Church of India, fragile students from unwelcomed thoughts Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon have proliferate on U.S. university campuses, a restored a relationship of full communion Avery different kind of “space” has taken root following a hiatus of more than four years. at the University of South Carolina in the state cap- In a letter signed Nov. 7 in Athens, ital of Columbia. Georgia, U.S.A., Archbishop Haverland For the last 10 years, the C.S.Lewis Student Center and the Most Rev. John Augustine, Metro- and St.Theodore’s Anglican Chapel have provided politan of the CIPBC, agreed and affirmed an oasis for those at the 34,000-student state-affiliated uni- the following: versity who wish to practice — and, in some instances, dis- “That our Churches possess the same cover — orthodox Anglican faith and practice, as well as Sunday-night Bible Study is one of the center’s most doctrine, moral teaching, and worship, fellowship with like believers. popular activities. flowing from the Church of England in the “It is my home away from home,” one student writes. days of her orthodoxy and agreeable to the “I would be lost without it. It is the one place on campus faith of the One Holy Catholic and Apos- where I can relax without fear of judgment; yet at the same tolic Church; time it displays an intellectual venue which challenges, “That our Churches possess the same strengthens and deepens my humility.” holy orders of bishop, priests, and deacons, This ministry of the Diocese of the Holy Cross, which holy orders are male in character in believed to be unique in the Continuing Church, is the accordance with the practice of the Univer- brainchild of Rosamond Kent Sprague, professor emeri- sal Church; ta of Ancient Philosophy at USC, who donated her home “That our Churches recognize in the right on the university campus for the center’s use. Constitutions and Canons of the Anglican Dr. Sprague and her late husband were founding mem- Catholic Church and in the Constitution, bers of the Anglican Church of the Epiphany, now the dio- Canons and Rules of the Church (CIPBC) cese’s cathedral. The couple had always intended to donate the same canonical order and discipline their home to the Church through their will. with only inessential differences appropri- But in 2005, Dr. Sprague extended an invitation to the ate to local circumstances, and that we Rev. Paul A. Sterne, then assisting at Epiphany, to move jointly subscribe to the Affirmation of Saint Center participants hand out food and supplies to Louis (1977) as a statement of the impli- Please see STUDENT/6 some of Columbia’s less fortunate inhabitants. cations of our joint faith in matters of cur- Please see INDIA/2 A CONVENT IN VERMONT/3 • REBIRTH IN BLACKSBURG/6 WWW.ANGLICANCATHOLIC.ORG • FACEBOOK.COM/ANGLICANCATHOLICCHURCH 2 THETRINITARIAN JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 METROPOLITAN’S MESSAGE THETRINITARIANSM VOL. XXXVII, NO. 1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 SOME NOTES ON SERMONS THETRINITARIAN, the Official Gazette of the Angli- can Catholic Church, was first published in April 1979 as the official voice of the Diocese of the Holy Trinity. In AND SERMON PREPARATION 1982, it became a churchwide publication of The Angli- here are times and places where sermons were, pose favored nostrums on secondary and tertiary concerns. can Catholic Church. or even now still are, public entertainment and People are willing to listen to clergymen on the assumption PUBLISHERS where and when, therefore, the length of the ser- that the clergy are willing to discipline themselves to teach The College of Bishops Tmon was not much an issue. Lancelot Andrewes the mind of the Church, not their own private views. 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