by John Smeaton, SPUC
Judgment was handed down today in the case of two senior midwives from Glasgow who have a conscientious objection to abortion. The midwives have been told that they must accept the decision of their hospital management that they must oversee other midwives performing abortions on the labour ward.
Lady Smith, sitting in the [...]The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (UK and Ireland) invites Members of Anglican Churches in the British Isles and those from across the world now resident in the UK, both clergy and lay, for an evening to meet, welcome and hear The Primates Council of FCA International, Bishops, and other leaders of the Anglican Communion from [...]
By Stephen Adams, Telegraph
Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued.
The article, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, says newborn babies are not “actual persons” and [...]From Christian Newswire
After just four days on YouTube, "Hooking Kids on Sex" exceeded 200,000 views. Then, an ex-intern of Planned Parenthood got the white-hot investigative report by American Life League on Planned Parenthood sex education blocked by YouTube. Now, ALL has responded with "Hooked on Sex II." At four minutes in, the revised video reveals [...]By Stanley Kurtz, The Weekly Standard
The "conservative case" for same-sex marriage collapses.
MARRIAGE IS SLOWLY DYING IN SCANDINAVIA. A majority of children in Sweden and Norway are born out of wedlock. Sixty percent of first-born children in Denmark have unmarried parents. Not coincidentally, these countries have had something close to full gay marriage for a decade [...]By Madeleine Teahan, Catholic Herald
A leading British medical journal has published an article calling for the introduction of infanticide for social and medical reasons.
The article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, entitled “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” states in its abstract: “After-birth abortion (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all cases where [...]The British Medical Journal published this article in its blog in support of sex-selective abortions. This has provoked anger amongst healthcare professionals, including at least one threatened resignation from the BMA.
Text of letter to BMJ from Dr Trevor Stammers, Programme Director in Medical Ethics, St Mary's University College, London
The editorial bias of the BMJ is shown [...]Kevin and George bring you tragic news from the Diocese of Recife and the murder of Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti and his wife Miriam. They also recall their memories of Bishop Robinson and his ministry in Brazil and the Anglican Communion. Also this week is Archbishop Nzmibi's health scare, Ashes-to-Go, and some behind the scene footage. [...]By Sophie Borland, Mailonline
Foreigners with HIV will be given drugs costing £20,000 a year on the NHS under Government proposals to prevent the spread of the disease.
The treatment will be offered to non-British residents in England, including failed asylum seekers and students on temporary visas.
It is not clear how many patients this will affect or [...]By Steve Doughty, Mailonline
Archbishop also says wrong to legalise assisted dying because of threat to the vulnerable
Dr Rowan Williams told MPs that C of E churches would never be used to solemnise gay marriages
The law has no right to legalise same-sex marriage, the Archbishop of Canterbury declared yesterday.
Dr Rowan Williams said a new marriage law [...][...] Collegiality is designed to preserve koinonia with the Apostolic teaching and mission. Thus the boundary of collegiality is reached when the Apostolic teaching and mission is threatened and koinonia is thus breached.
But as Hooker points out, bishops cannot ignore their presbyters in this regard, and presbyters are not under obligation to remain in submission to [...].jpg)
From Reuters
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual head of the global Anglican communion, stepped on Tuesday into a row which is flaring at the U.N. Human Rights Council over the persecution of gays and lesbians.
Williams, who has faced strong opposition from parts of his own church especially in Africa for his stance on gays, did [...]
: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Wednesday , February 29, 2012 The Ember Days At the Four Seasons The . Collect O ALMIGHTY God , who hast committed to the hands of men the ministry of reconciliation We humbly beseech thee , by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit , to put it into the hearts of many to offer themselves for this ministry that thereby mankind may be drawn to thy blessed kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord . . Amen The Epistle Acts xiii . 44. THE next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God . But when the Jews saw the multitudes , they were filled with envy , and spake against those things which were spoken by(16).jpg)
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Gen 37:25-36
1 Cor 2:1-13
Luke 11:29-32
First Wednesday In Lent
LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: Structurally, the Gregorian calendar is indistinguishable from the Julian calendar. The only thing that separates the Gregorian from the Julian calendar is the correction of the leap year day. Pope Gregory XIII “corrected the calendar” by deleting [...]From Living Waters
False Intimacyis a one-day conference addressing the pastoral issues faced by ministers and church leaders when helping those struggling with sexual purity, pornography use and sex addiction both within and outside the church. A recent survey by CARE found that 97% of church leaders believe online pornography to be a serious issue within [...].jpg)
From the American College of Pediatricians
The American College of Pediatricians (The College) is alarmed by physicians at Boston Children's Hospital who are using hormone therapy (HT) and sex-reassignment surgery (SRS) in children.
There is no evidence that children are born "transgender." Instead, children who have a strong desire to be the opposite sex, or the belief [...].jpg)
By Ed West, Telegraph
I loved the juxtaposition of yesterday’s leading headlines. "Osborne: UK has run out of money", and below it "Benefits families could pay off £1m mortgage."
Today that is joined by “Foreigners to get free HIV drugs on the NHS”
[...] Now having grown up in the 1980s, and so stuck with a lingering terror [...]The Wilberforce Academy is holding a conference during the Easter break at Exeter College, Oxford. A gay activist has complained to the college (with the backing of Stonewall) with a view to getting the conference banned.
Whilst the college has not cancelled the conference it has stated (obviously forgetting its Christian foundations) that it will be reviewing the basis [...]
By Michael Kirke, MercatorNet
Tom Chivers is the London Daily Telegraph's assistant comment editor. He writes on science, culture and anything that crosses his mind. Recently he posted a sentiment-driven piece in the Telegraph online in which he recounted how he cried into his champagne at a ceremony he attended built around the civil union of [...]By Dominic Lawson, Independent
[...] On Sunday, the implacably pro-choice Observer pronounced in its leading article that those on both sides of the abortion debate had "rightly spoken as one in soundly condemning the practice [of sex-selection terminations]". Two days earlier, The Independent declared: "In some other regards, this newspaper would defend to the hilt the [...]: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Tuesday , February 28, 2012 Oswald of Worcester died 29 February 992 was Archbishop of York from 972 to his death in 992. He was of Danish ancestry , but brought up by his uncle , Oda who sent him to France to the abbey of Fleury to become a monk . After a number of years at Fleury , Oswald returned to England at the request of his uncle , who died before Oswald returned . With his uncle's death , Oswald needed a patron and turned to another kinsman , Oskytel , who had recently become Archbishop of York . His activity for Oskytel attracted the notice of Saint Dunstan who had Oswald consecrated as Bishop of Worcester in: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Monday , February 27, 2012 George Herbert 3 April 1593 1 March 1633 was a Anglo-Welsh Priest , Poet , Orator and . Churchman Being born into an artistic and wealthy family , he received a good education which led to his holding prominent positions at Cambridge University and Parliament . As a student at Trinity College , Cambridge , England , George Herbert excelled in languages and music . He went to college with the intention of becoming a priest , but his scholarship attracted the attention of King James I . Herbert served in parliament for two years . After the death of King James and at the urging of a friend ,: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Monday , February 27, 2012 Gabriel Possenti Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows , a Passionist clerical student known for his devotion to the Virgin Mary , born Francesco Possenti at Assisi , Italy on March 1, 1838, died Gran Sasso , Italy February 27, 1862. Canonised by Pope Benedict XV in 1920. One of thirteen children . After a youth devoted to the world and society , attending the theatre , chasing women and the hunt , he was led to the Passionist Order by Our Lady . His life was not marked by great events or controversy , but given to prayer , sacrifice , and a devotion to Our Lady and the contemplation of her sorrows over: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Sunday , February 26, 2012 The First Sunday in Lent The . Collect O LORD , who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights Give us grace to use such abstinence , that , our flesh being subdued to the Spirit we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness , and true holiness , to thy honour and glory , who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost , one God , world without end . . Amen The Epistle 2 Corinthians vi . . i WE then , as workers together with him , beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain for he saith , I have heard thee in a time accepted , and in the day of
by Hilary White, LifeSite News Yesterday, it seems everyone flew into a tizzy because the Daily Telegraph reported that abortion facilities are allowing women to abort their children if the child is the “wrong” sex. The papers and politicians are saying that “sex-selective abortion” is illegal and “morally wrong.” In fact, the whole business has [...]
By Paul Bracchi, Mailonline The Tavistock Clinic is based in an anonymous concrete building in North London. Once there, you have to go to the third floor to find the Orwellian-sounding Gender Identity Development Unit. The unit received £1,042,000 in funding last year from the local healthcare Trust. In layman’s terms, it treats patients who [...]
Sexuality in Western society: the story so far Until very recently, the dominant view of sex and marriage in Western culture for over a century had been governed by two distinct, but nonetheless overlapping, frames of thought. On the hand, the churches upheld and offered marriage as the proper context for sex and the basis [...]: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Saturday , February 25, 2012 Æthelberht of Kent also Æthelbert , Aethelberht , Aethelbert , or Ethelbert c . 560 February 24, 616 was King of Kent from about 580 or 590 until his death . In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People , the monk Bede lists Aethelberht as the third king to hold imperium over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms . In the late 9th century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Æthelberht is referred to as a bretwalda , or Britain-ruler He was the first English king to convert to . Christianity He was the son of Eormenric , whom he succeeded as king , according to the Chronicle . He married Bertha , daughter of: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Thursday , February 23, 2012 Polycarp of Smyrna ca . 69- ca . 155 was a Christian bishop of Smyrna now İzmir in Turkey in the second century . He died a martyr when he was stabbed and burnt at the stake . Polycarp is recognized as a saint in most Christian churches . It is recorded that He had been a disciple of John . The options for this John are John the son of Zebedee traditionally viewed as the author of the Fourth Gospel , or John the Presbyter . Traditional advocates follow Eusebius in insisting that the apostolic connection of Papius was with John the Evangelist , and that this John , the author of the Gospel of: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Wednesday , February 22, 2012 Ash Wednesday The first day of Lent The . Collect ALMIGHTY and everlasting God , who hatest nothing that thou hast made , and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent Create and make in us new and contrite hearts , that we , worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness , may obtain of thee , the God of all mercy , perfect remission and forgiveness through Jesus Christ our Lord . . Amen This Collect is to be said every day in Lent , after the Collect appointed for the day , until Palm . Sunday The Epistle Joel ii . 12. TURN ye even to me , saith the LORD , with all: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Tuesday , February 21, 2012 Peter Damian Petrus Damiani , also Pietro Damiani or Pier Damiani c . 1007[1 February 21 22, 1072 was one of the most celebrated , universally loved and zealous reforming monks in the circle of Hildebrand of the 11th century , made a cardinal and in 1823 declared a Doctor of the Church . Dante placed Petrus Damiani in one of the highest circles of Paradiso as a great predecessor of Saint . Francis Youngest child in a large family . Orphaned . Sent to live with a brother , he was mistreated and forced to work as a swine-herd . Cared for another brother , a priest in Ravenna , Italy . Well
February By Julian Mann, Cranmer’s Curate [...] If local churches around the UK cannot get their members out in significant numbers for a rally on an issue as biblically central as this one, then public Christianity in the UK would be sounding its own death-knell by default. The consequences of same-sex marriage for local churches, [...]
By Lord Carey, Mailonline When David Cameron told his party’s conference last autumn about his plans to bring in gay marriage, he said that this was because he was a ‘Conservative’ and believed in ‘commitment’. Like many others, I was baffled by this statement. Not because I begrudge rights and benefits to homosexual couples. And [...]: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Monday , February 20, 2012 Cecile Isherwood was born in England in 1861 but went to South Africa to work in the Diocese of Grahamstown in 1883. At the request of the Bishop , she founded a sisterhood , The Community of The Resurrection of Our Lord , for work in the Church of the Province of South Africa . She led this community until her death , at the early age of forty-four , on 20 February 1906. The . Collect O God , by whose grace thy servant Cecile Isherwood , enkindled With the fire of thy love , became a shining light in thy Church : Grant that we also may be aflame with the spirit of love and discipline , and may: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Monday , February 20, 2012 Wulfric of Somerset From 02 20 was a hermit and miracle worker . Born at Compton Martin , near Bristol , England , he became a priest and was excessively materialistic and worldly . After meeting with a beggar , he underwent a personal conversion and became a hermit at Haselbury Somerset , England . For his remaining years , he devoted himself to rigorous austerities and was known for his . miracles Wulfric had the gift of prophecy . Counselor to King Henry I and King Stephen . Copied and bound books , and crafted items for use in the Mass . Some orders have tried to claim that Wulfric was a: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Sunday , February 19, 2012 Quinquagesima Sunday The . Collect O LORD , who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth Send thy Holy Ghost , and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity , the very bond of peace and of all virtues , without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee . Grant this for thine only Son Jesus Christ's sake . . Amen The Epistle 1 Corinthians xiii . 1. THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels , and have not charity , I am become as sounding brass , or a tinkling cymbal . And though I have the gift of prophecy , and understand all: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Saturday , February 18, 2012 Philothei of Athens from 02 19 Greek : Άγια Φιλοθέη 1522-1589 was born in Athens to an illustrious and wealthy family . Against her will , she was married to a cruel man . When he died three years later , Philothei gave away her worldly belongings , took up the monastic life and established a convent , in which she became a mother to her disciples . Many women enslaved and abused by the Muslim Turks in harems also ran to her for refuge . Because of this , in 1589, the Mohammedan rulers of Ottoman Greece became enraged and came to her convent and dragged her by force out of the church . They: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Saturday , February 18, 2012 Martin of Erfurt November 10, 1483–February 18, 1546 was a German monk , theologian , and church . reformer Luther's theology challenged the authority of the papacy by holding that the Bible is the sole source of religious authority . This and other ideas inspired the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western . civilization His translation of the Bible into the vernacular , making it more accessible to ordinary people , had a tremendous political impact on the church and on German culture . It furthered the development of a standard version of the German language , added several: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Saturday , February 18, 2012 Colmán of Lindisfarne c . 605-18 February , 675 also known as Saint Colmán was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 661 until 664. Spiritual student and disciple of Saint Columba . Monk at . Iona He defended Celtic church practices against Saint Eilfrid and Saint Agilbert at the Synod of Whitby , a synod called by King Oswiu of Northumbria to decide on whether to use the Celtic or Latin method to calculate Easter . King Oswy insisted on the use of Latin rites , Colman refused , resigned his see , and in 664 led a group of dissident Irish and English monks first to Scotland , then to the Isle of: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Friday , February 17, 2012 Janani Luwum Janani Luwum was born in 1922. His father was a convert to Christianity . Janani was sent to school and eventually became a schoolteacher . In 1948 he was converted . He became very active in the East African revival movement , and became a lay reader , then a deacon , and then a priest in 1956. He was chosen to study for a year at St Augustine's College in Canterbury , England . He returned to Uganda , worked as a parish priest , and then taught at Buwalasi Theological College . He made a second visit to Britain to study at the London College of Divinity , returning to Uganda to: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Friday , February 17, 2012 Finan of Lindisfarne was an Irish monk , trained at Iona in Scotland , who Succeeded Saint Aidan as governor of the Church in Northumbria and became Bishop of Lindisfarne from 651 until 661. Originally from Ireland , he founded a cathedral on Lindisfarne and the monasteries of Gilling and . Whitby Opposed the replacement of the Celtic liturgy with the Roman one . Evangelized southern England , working with Saint Cedd . He was a friend of King Oswiu of Northumbria and Saint Cuthbert and converted the kings Sigebert of Essex and Peada of the Middle Angles to Christianity and brought Saint Ebbe the: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Friday , February 17, 2012 Mesrob of Armenia also Mesrob , Mashtotz , Armenian : Մեսրոպ Մաշտոց 361 or 362, Hatsik , in Taron February 17, 440, Echmiadzin was an Armenian monk , theologian and linguist . He is best known for having invented the Armenian alphabet , which was a fundamental step in strengthening the Armenian Church , the government of the Armenian Kingdom , and ultimately the bond between the Armenian Kingdom and Armenians living in the Byzantine Empire and the Persian . Empire Propers for Mesrob Monk , Theologian and Linguist The . Collect GOD , who hast endowed thy servant Mesrob with clarity of faith and: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Wednesday , February 15, 2012 Thomas Bray 1658 15 February 1730 was an English clergyman born in Marton , Shropshire in 1656. He was educated at Oswestry School and Oxford University , where he earned a B.A . degree with All Souls College and a M.A . with Hart . Hall After leaving the university he was appointed vicar of Over Whitacre , and rector of Sheldon in Warwickshire , where he wrote his famous Catechetical Lectures . Henry Compton , Bishop of London , appointed him in 1696 as his commissary to organize the Church of England in Maryland , and he was in that colony in 1699-1700. He spent only ten weeks in the colony : The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Wednesday , February 15, 2012 Lewis Wallace April 10, 1827 February 15, 1905 was a lawyer , governor , Union general in the American Civil War , American statesman , and author , best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur : A Tale of the . Christ Wallace became known throughout the world , however , for his Christian novel Ben Hurr He had been interested in writing from youth . At age 15 he wrote a novel about chivalry in the Crusades . After the war while on a train trip , he had a discussion with an agnostic who questioned his faith . In response , he began a study of the ancient Jews . He determined to write a: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Tuesday , February 14, 2012 Valentine At least three different Saint Valentines , all of them martyrs , are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February . One is described as a priest at Rome , another as bishop of Interamna modern Terni and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way , but at different distances from the city . In William of Malmesbury's time what was known to the ancients as the Flaminian Gate of Rome and is now the Porta del Popolo , was called the Gate of St . Valentine . The name seems to have been taken: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Monday , February 13, 2012 Ermengild of Ely Eormenhilde , Hermynhild d . c.700 queen of Mercia , abbess of Ely . She was the daughter of Erconbert , king of Kent , and of his wife Sexburga , who was sister of Etheldreda . Ermengild married Wulfhere , king of Mercia 657–74 and son of Penda . She converted her husband and bore him two children , Coenred , king of Mercia 704–9, and Werburga . After Wulfhere’s death she became a nun at Minster-in-Sheppey , founded by her mother Sexburga . When the latter resigned this abbacy and went to Ely , Ermengild succeeded her at Minster when Sexburga died at Ely twenty years later ,: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Sunday , February 12, 2012 Sexagesima Sunday The . Collect O LORD God , who seest that we put not our trust in any thing that we do Mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended against all adversity through Jesus Christ our Lord . . Amen The Epistle 2 Corinthians xi . 19. YE suffer fools gladly , seeing ye yourselves are wise . For ye suffer , if a man bring you into bondage , if a man devour you , if a man take of you , if a man exalt himself , if a man smite you on the face . I speak as concerning reproach , as though we had been weak . Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold , I speak foolishly , I am bold also . Are: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Saturday , February 11, 2012 Æthelwold of Lindisfarne from 02 12 also spelled Aethelwald , Ethelwold , etc . was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 721 until 740. Leather worker and bookbinder . Monk . Assistant to Saint Cuthbert . Prior and abbot of Old Melrose monastery in Scotland . Bishop at Lindisfarne in 721. Commissioned the famous Lindisfarne Book of Gospels , now in the British Museum , and made its jewel-encrusted leather cover , now lost . Wrote the Hymnal of . Ethelwald Propers for Æthelwold of Lindisfarne Abbot and Bishop The . Collect O GOD , by whose grace the blessed abbot Æthelwold enkindled with the fire of thy