Sunday
From NLM

• Chancel guard rails. Photo: iconostasis of the Church of the Prophet Elijah, Yaroslavl, Russia.
• The Lenten Triodion.
• Eastward-facing.
• St Francis and the office.

From Ad Orientem

• OCA row: Met. Jonah on leave and chancellor replaced. Both the congregationalists (their VOF and SNAP; one of Orthodoxy’s good points is they have no Call to Action) and the hardline nastydox seem to be crowing.
• Egyptian armed forces knock down fences guarding Coptic monasteries.

From Damian Thompson

• 10,000 traditional Catholics petition Pope not to renege on Summorum Pontificum.
• No authority – civil or religious – has the power to modify the fundamental nature of marriage. True but people have the right to be wrong as long as they don’t infringe on your rights.
• How the government works: your glossy 32-page free guide to how the council is spending money wisely.

From Huw

• On Met. Jonah and the OCA. I’d like to see this small denomination (Orthodoxy like Rome’s not a denomination – each claims it’s the one true church – but its American jurisdictions are) keep its Rust Belt Midwestern traditional Catholic feel (so stay Slavic) and not turn into AFR and the kind of thing Owen White hates (evangelical yuppiedox with an expensive hobby religion).
• A public work not the work of the people.
• What are we doing at Mass?

Ordinariate news

• Bishop Moyer’s story. The ordinariates matter because the American version can give the church the great tradition of Christian English prose wedded to the ethos of the Tridentine Mass (knocking out the problems of Latin such as its scaring people off) and the British version, like the American, at least a shot of orthodoxy vs the local libs.

From T1:9

• RC bishops and three mainline Protestant churches oppose Miss. bill harassing immigrants. Good but...
• Big changes in some churches’ claimed numbers because they’re being more honest this year.