Concerning the long, green season of Sundays after Trinity, the Roman Catholic priest Pius Parsch (1884-1954) observed:
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I’m not naive to think that there are only those who support. My point is that people are looking to the church to speak to these things in public not just in the pulpit or behind closed doors. People are looking for pastors to have some skin in the game. So, my encouragement is to demonstrate what you stand for by reaching out in public ways to let those who feel cornered, that there is still a prophet in Israel.
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Read MoreA spiritual poison can be instilled into the children also with the giving of instruction in history, geography, and other subjects, and sad to say, this does happen, as experience teaches us.
This is our month to celebrate!
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For Christians, we are entering a long and trying month. The June 1 Psalm and the writing by Paul Zeller Strodach (1876 - 1947) appointed for today’s Treasury of Daily Prayer readings for the Thursday After Pentecost are appropriate.
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In this week’s Thinking Out Loud (Trinity Sunday), I had asked Fr. Petersen why John 3 had been the appointed Gospel for The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity. Not having readily available by memory this history of this feast, we embarked upon some sanctified speculation. An astute listener e-mailed me with the following from Fred Lindemann, in volume three of his The Sermon and the Propers:
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The recent controversy over CPH’s new essays on the Large Catechism has caused some to ask whether it is appropriate for women to publicly teach official doctrine to the church. Some may argue directly from divine revelation to answer this question. Others might argue, from a sort of natural-law perspective informed by Scripture, that there is an ontological difference between men and women which makes it appropriate for men, but not women, to write the kind of essays newly attached to the catechism. Mark Preus’ recent article has jump-started the conversation on the first kind of argument; I would like to do the same thing for the second kind.
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As this old codger has reached the term of the Psalmist’s estimate of the normal span of a man’s life, he is wondering whether the time has come for him to put his pen to a burst of Retractationes. Bill Weinrich must be much more familiar with Augustine’s swan song than am I, but I remember Henry Chadwick pronouncing in his plummy tones how in this his literary au revoir the Bishop of Hippo and Doctor of Grace more often insisted that he was right than admitted being in the wrong.
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Rev. Mark Preus’s guest essay of two days ago has blessed the church with a lot of conversation and discussion. One of the commenters questioned Pr. Preus’s methodology and scholarship. This is his response. ~ Ed.
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Here are a couple videos spoofing the TV “reality” shows that feature people looking for a house. Only these folks are looking for a church.
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The purpose of this essay is to strive for the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, so that we might together humbly accept the Word of God on this matter, submit to it, and encourage each other to apply it to our congregations and synod, speaking the truth in love, lest the devil divide us by seducing us from the clear word of God.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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