Theology of Andrew: High Church Jealousy

Saturday, February 28, 2009

High Church Jealousy

I'm watching (on youtube) "Shadowlands" one of my favourite films. There are these scenes with the High Church Anglican services at Oxford with full choirs in Latin, etc. That movie always makes me jealous and angry that the Anglicans are now (in some places) more high church than the Roman Catholics.

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PhilipMarch 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM
"High Church Jealousy"....I feel your pain. Don't we all long for something good, true, and beautiful? Something at once lovely and terrifying? Something bigger than ourselves?

Modern dispositions have thoroughly buried this innate desire of people under self-idolatry, apathy, and resistance to change. The following is an interesting insight: tradition is changeless, but it is the greatest catalyst for change in people.

This reminds me of Chesterton's great words, which I can hardly recall without tears:

"It is of the new things that men tire -- of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is the old things that are young."
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AMarch 2, 2009 at 2:00 PM
How very true.

That's an amazing quote from Chesterton.

Dominus Tecum Philip
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Quotes For Thought

"If baptism is the beginning of my life, and the day of regeneration is the first of days, it is obvious that the words spoken when I received the grace of adoption are more honorable than any spoken since....Through this confession I was made a child of God, I, who was His enemy for so long because of my sins. May I pass from this life to the Lord with this confession on my lips." - St. Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit, par. 26.

"To know Jesus and Jesus crucified is the sum total of my philosophy." - St. Bernard of Clairvaux

"Oh the extraordinary goodness of God toward man? The just of the Old Testament thank God in the weariness of long years; but that which they obtained, by means of a long and heroic service pleasing to God, Jesus gives to you in the brief time span of an hour. Indeed, if you believe that Jesus Christ is the lord, and that God had raised him from the dead, you will be saved and you will be introduced into heaven by the same one who introduced the good thief." - St. Cyril of Jerusalem

"He made us to believe in Christ, who made for us a Christ on whom we believe. He makes in men the beginning and the completion of the faith in Jesus who made the man Jesus the beginner and finisher of faith" - St. Augustine

"Nor must we trust in holiness of origin, in forefathers, or in
the gifts of God which we enjoy. We must look to the Word alone and judge thereby. Those alone who truly embrace the Word will be as immovable forever as Mount Zion. They may be few in number and thoroughly despised by the world, as were Noah and his children. But God, through these few, preserved to man the truth of that promised mastery when he had not even room to set his foot upon the earth." - Bl. Martin Luther "Commentary on Genesis"