Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs

• Exciting collects. Fr Hunwicke explains a way that Advent is different: it doesn’t use one of the standard scripts. Excita, quæsumus, Dómine, poténtiam tuam, et veni : ut ab imminéntibus peccatórum nostrórum perículis, te mereámur protegénte éripi, te liberánte salvári : Qui vivis et regnas in unitate Spiritu Sancti, Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. Amen.
• The problem with mere Christianity.
• St Peter the Aleut beloved of convert propaganda. If he was real then according to Rome he was right and his murderers wrong (universal in Christendom: thou shalt do no murder).
• The Ratzinger proposal and the Zoghby initiative. In his outreach to other apostolic traditionalists the Holy Father is willing to listen and negotiate but of course defined doctrine is a non-negotiable. I wouldn’t say many Greek Catholics are OicwRs like thankfully few ethnic Orthodox are rabid anti-Westerners; both factions consist of converts online, cyber-churches. As much as I like the OicwRs versus the latter (like I prefer hanging out online with Anglicans to the convert blogs and boards of either) I’m sorry but Zoghby didn’t make sense; it was the branch theory minus the Anglicans. Tout somme schismatiques sounds charitable like the Anglicans but means no church. Un-Catholic.
• Brother Stephen on 450 years and nine or 10 schisms and conversions of the Treat family of which he is one, starting and ending with Catholicism, from Pitminster Church in the 1500s through Anglicanism, Congregationalism, ‘Churchachrist’ and Anglicanism again including Anglo-Catholicism to Our Lady of Lourdes, Overbrook and the Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank.
• Dublin sex abuse. Matthew 7:21. Throw the book at them.

Labels: Eastern Orthodoxy, history, the Catholic faith