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Out of the Barn!

The long-awaited Easter issue of Gottesdienst has bolted! It has been released from the barn, and it flies through its appointed pathways to a mailbox near you. Is your subscription up to date?

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I Disagree!

One argument for the validity of lay consecration is that it is not by virtue of the man speaking the words, but the words of Jesus, that make the sacrament a sacrament. And this is true. These are not the pastor’s words, but Christ’s words. The pastor’s “virtue” is not what consecrates the elements, but Christ, by means of His Word.

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Larry Beane Comments
On Marriage

Last month, my wife Grace and I celebrated our thirtieth anniversary. Grace ran across this essay, and shared it with me. And in fact, we put on the audio and listened together. It struck us just how much this resonated.

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Larry Beane Comment
I Do Not Permit a Woman to Teach

You can be sure there’s a kind of soft-antinomianism* in play when you detect a reticence about dealing with certain parts of the Bible. One such part is St. Paul’s admonition to Timothy: “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence” (I Tim. 2:12).

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The King of the Feeding Trough

In His rescue mission to save mankind, our Lord was dropped covertly behind enemy lines. The defeat of Satan by a baby born of a woman is a humiliation of the devil. The humiliation of our Lord is temporary. The humiliation of Satan is eternal.

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Larry Beane Comments
St. Caesarius of Arles on the Approach to Lent

If we notice carefully, dearest brethren, the holy days of Lent signify the life of the present world, just as Easter prefigures eternal bliss. Now just as we have a kind of sadness in Lent in order that we may rightly rejoice at Easter, so as long as we live in this world we ought to do penance in order that we may be able to receive pardon for our sins in the future and arrive at eternal joy.

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