Lukas Söderbäck

no pastor: the shepherd in wolf's clothing:

@TheDonStein As Miles pointed out, the presumption of properly ordained ministry is also an interesting factor.

I hadn’t considered this before, but from a Lutheran perspective, this might actually be a fair descriptor. The church exists “wherever the Word is rightly preached and sacraments rightly administered.” neither *properly* happens in the non-denoms.

@TheDonStein Lastly, I almost always end my supplications during vespers with crossing myself and praying for the dead, which is the traditional practice. Okay or no?

@TheDonStein Having lightbearers for “votive” or prayer candles also appear and are everywhere now. The practice of lighting a candle in prayer, maybe for a deceased loved one, is a very common and popular practice. Would this be confessionally appropriate?

Can a Lutheran pray for the dead/someone recently deceased? I’ve been told no, but I also think a hard “no” can lead to weird places theologically.

@PatrologyVotary Your journey is in my prayers, dear brother.

Things have progressed. I have been attending a Church of England parish, and the priest is keen on getting me baptised soon. However, there is a problem because my confirmation would be performed by a female bishop. I am going to be having frank discussions with the priest soon.

Death is dead. Adam is hauled from the depths. Christ is risen. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!

@IFFFMEISTER I like ‘Oxford Apostles’ by Faber. The focus of the book are the central characters, their academic backgrounds and how they might have influenced one another. Slow at times, but helpful for catching their different personalities, especially the relationship Newman-Froude.

Best books on High Church Anglicanism, the Tractarians, and Anglo-Catholicism?

@RockWallBibles ‘Day by day with God’ by Blessed C. O. Rosenius. One of the most beloved devotional works in Protestant history.

After the Bible, what’s the next book every Christian should own?

Christ has crushed hell, opened up heaven, bound and taken captive the devil, and delivered the prisoners.—Martin Luther, Sermon for Easter Eve 1532

The blessed Virgin first received Christ into her heart, and then into her body, and then into her hands. In the Holy Communion, the communicant first receives the sacrament of Christ’s Body into their hand, and then into their bodies, and then into their hearts.

A Huguenot Prayer at Mealtime "Eternal Father, who commanded 'Take not tomorrow's cares today', For this day's bounty, freely granted, Our simple, earnest, thanks we say. And since it pleased You to convey The earthly food and drink You've given, So may it please You now, we pray, To feed our souls with Bread from Heaven." - Jacobus Clemens non Papa (1510-1556), tr. by Peter Maurice

@Young_Anglican It’s a joy to consider that you and I are in full communion now!

Protestant Episcopal is a much better term than Anglican. (Yes Anglican is literally in my name lol) The Church of Sweden is just as "Protestant Episcopal" as the CofE and TEC and CoI etc, and is in Communion with them. Therefore there is a Protestant Episcopal Communion.

@ultrajectensis @Young_Anglican No, not with Swedish orders. The Danes (thus the Norwegians too) abolish the episcopacy and even though the CofSw also has superintendents for a time along with the bishops, we never lost our succession.

@Young_Anglican The main problem with Swedish orders is that there was a couple of periodic breaks in the succession in the 1550s.

@OrthodoxOrigen Anti-Fascist Votive Mass in the Extraordinary Form is a legendary vibe

BASED Catholics celebrating the Fall of Fascism and the failure of Mussolini in the traditional form. Catholicism IS anti-fascism

”[Mysticism] makes religion the intercourse, silent but deep, between the soul and God, the source of all its life and light.” - Revere Franklin Weidner

Martin Bucer on the attributes of good works "First, that they are necessary for salvation, because they are commanded by God and necessarily flow from faith in Christ. Second, that God deigns to use them—yet only by his free and gracious kindness—to increase and advance in us regeneration and the justice that has been begun. Third, that they serve for declaring and testifying, both to our own consciences (for the strengthening of faith in the grace of God) and to others (for the edification of piety), that we have been received into God’s grace and are children of God. Fourth, that we are judged according to our works, and that for good works we are praised by God and a full reward is rendered to us. These four things Scripture teaches concerning good works; these same things we also proclaim openly concerning them, and we invite and urge people, as far as we are able, to perform them." 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑢𝑚, 𝑝.98

@barukalas Sung Compline is great. Can one see a copy of your bulletin? Orders for Compline are somewhat of an interest of mine.

Sunday School and Sung Compline. I can’t believe we’re almost done with this series.

@ThaddeusPapist Good quote but

"There is no past so ruined, no history so compromised that it cannot be touched by mercy." - PP. LEO XIV