tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post1888654289458270276..comments2024-03-23T18:50:32.902-04:00Comments on Telling Secrets: How Can These Things Be?Elizabeth Kaetonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-29807488869824421782008-02-21T18:52:00.000-05:002008-02-21T18:52:00.000-05:00I hadn't made the connection between this and open...I hadn't made the connection between this and open communion. Very interesting. Thank you.<BR/><BR/>I like the Pharisees, btw. I always thought I would've been a good Pharisee, so populist and everything...Lindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04662429826507775390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-90455254838472658082008-02-18T17:49:00.000-05:002008-02-18T17:49:00.000-05:00I have been confirmed, a chalice bearer, lay reade...I have been confirmed, a chalice bearer, lay reader, postulant, vestry member and diocian convention delegate. No one has ever asked for my baptismal certificate. I am fairly sure that no one in my parish has ever been asked for one, and we are about to install our third rector since I was confirmed. <BR/><BR/>I have heard our last recton say at services where we might have a lot of visitors (weddings, funerals especially) "The Episcopal Church teaches that communion is open to all baptized Christians regardless of denomination. If you are not baptized or simply desire to receive a blessing, please come forward and cross your hands over your chest." Was that somehow not canonical? Somewhere I am missing a point or two.<BR/><BR/>FWIW<BR/>jimBJimBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17312606954135884910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-58988081910093568832008-02-18T07:49:00.000-05:002008-02-18T07:49:00.000-05:00I am so moved by this. I was just at another blog ...I am so moved by this. I was just at another blog where there was a discussion of the context of John 3:16 with 3:17 - a whole other meaning than 3:16 alone.<BR/><BR/>You beautifully bring this into clarity and your insights about Nicodemus and Jesus are very stirring to me.<BR/><BR/>Common union - open communion, what a struggle. I know as a Roman Catholic woman - often struggling within her own denomination, that this is not easily found. Although lucky enough to be in a fairly liberal parish in a reasonably liberal diocese (Albany NY) but still challenged by B16 and the RC church at large.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for this thought provoking post.<BR/><BR/>Peace unto all.Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07181529277715646835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-9535608253634601792008-02-17T22:42:00.000-05:002008-02-17T22:42:00.000-05:00Great sermon Mother 'Lizbeth.May I humbly submit o...Great sermon Mother 'Lizbeth.<BR/><BR/>May I humbly submit one factual error. You have the beliefs about resurrection of the Pharisees and the Sadducees reversed. The Pharisees believed in an afterlife, whereas the Sadducees did not.<BR/><BR/>There is a simple nemonic I have heard taught in Sunday School to remember. Because they did not believe in resurrection <B>They are sad, you see?</B>Brother Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06333089314994730330noreply@blogger.com