His Grace, Archbishop Cranmer has tagged me to respond to a meme over at his site. His Grace’s eight wishes for 2008 are as follows: 1 There shall be some cataclysm in British politics whereby a general election shall be…
Year: 2007
Happy Christmas
A belated Happy Christmas to everybody. Blogging will be light over the next few days. To keep you busy you might want to head over to the new Global Anglican Future site which has announced a pilgrimage to the Holy…
Posted in Anglican Communion, Christmas
Dating Christ’s Birth
At this time of year the usual stuff comes out from anti-Christians arguing that since Jesus wasn’t born on the 25th of December (the Church stole that date from the pagan Saturnalia) the whole Christmas thing is a load of…
Posted in General
Letter in Today’s Church Times
Sir, Canon Blyth complains about the “weekly psychological onslaught which is so highly damaging to lesbian, gay and bisexual people”. May I suggest to him and others that it is often when one is in the position of fighting against…
Aber mit der Heimat
geht man immer herum,
durch die Welt,
dort und dort
Peter Handke
No one could describe
the Word of the Father;
but when He took flesh from you, O Theotokos,
He consented to be described, and restored the fallen image to its former beauty.
We confess and proclaim our salvation in word and image.
Kontakion of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
