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in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
"If your church hasn’t been labeled a cult by the world and worldly Christians, you’re probably doing something wrong."
- Fr. Jack Shannon
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"Athos is a wonderful place and I should hate it to be thought that I have anything but veneration for its monks and gratitude for the kindness they showed me during my visits, but it did reveal to me very clearly the dangers of trying to shut the Church up in the past. So much of the Catholic Movement in the Church of England has been a turning backwards and a holding on to certain positions with a fanaticism bred from a sense of insecurity. I realised that while I should never find the Reformation attractive, yet the Reformers had a point, faced with the situation they found; and their valid insights into living of the Gospel have been enshrined in bodies which we have rather contemptuously called 'dissenting'.
Every period in the history of the Church has much to teach us and there are many things...of which we should be heartily ashamed; but our duty is to live in the Church today which involves situations which cannot be met by a slavish imitation of the past be it Puritan, Catholic or Primitive. This is particularly true of liturgy. Series 2 and Series 3 will soon be as much amongst the fossilised relics as 1662 and 1928. I am glad that I live in the Church now for, in spite of its absurdities, I am conscious of the Holy Spirit at work."
- Fr. Colin Stephenson, Merrily on High
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