Rev. Bosco Peters

Resources for Lent 5: liturgy.co.nz/lent-5-22-marc… Look graciously on your whānau/household, we implore you, O God, that by your great goodness we may be governed in body and, through your protection, kept safe in mind and heart; through Jesus Christ, who is alive with you, in the...

@RyanHurst171 @javierperd2604 They undermine the RC teaching: Christ is fully present under the accidents of bread & wine. It’s not flesh & blood.

@javierperd2604 The issue with these "miracles" in my mind is they completely undermine the sacrament. Is the sacrament not miraculous enough? If it is truly the body and blood ontologically after consecration, how is it that it can become even moreso sometimes just to prove it more?

Do Eucharistic miracles actually prove Roman Catholicism? 🩸🤔 Or is there a natural explanation behind the “bleeding host” phenomena? In this video, a Protestant doctor examines the theology and the science behind these claims.

@Splougy @OGBURGKATHOLIK I don't normally encourage anonymous rage-baiters, especially when they struggle with reading comprehension (this will also affect your understanding of history): "the first TWO Ecumenical Councils that produced the Nicene Creed." The Nicene Creed was completed at Constantinople.

I answered your question about Nicaea. If you want Constantinople too, say so. Constantinople I wasn’t presiding over by the pope in person either, you don’t need to over see everything for primacy. Papal primacy was never dependent on the pope physically presiding over every council.

Before I see one more Roman Catholic Trad boy claim that Protestants deny the Eucharist, let me enlighten you about the one and only true Protestant tradition. The “Western Catholic Church, cleansed by the Gospel.” “Hoc Est Enim Corpus Meum”

@Splougy @OGBURGKATHOLIK convenient sidestepping of the 2nd Council... 🙃

The Bishop of Rome is the Pope and he wasn’t absent, he exercised authority differently. Pope Sylvester I was pope during Council of Nicaea and was represented by legates. And earlier, Clement of Rome intervenes in Corinth with authority, outside his local diocese. The primacy is already there, even before later development in form.

@Splougy @OGBURGKATHOLIK So where was the pope in the first two Ecumenical Councils that produced the Nicene Creed?

@Liturgy @OGBURGKATHOLIK The Catholic Church aren’t the largest fragment, they are the foundation the others broke off from. The other traditions arise later by separation from that body.

@Just4Tweets1986 This might help:

I'm seriously starting to doubt Penal Substitutionary Atonement. The responses to the objections against PSA have been weak and dismissal. However, I've advocated for PSA for so long, it's hard to change the way I articulate the gospel. This is a total paradigm shift for me.

@RCollumbell @JudyAbel2 @ArchbishopSarah You may be aware, I’m writing about my recent one here: liturgy.co.nz/walking-furthe…

@JudyAbel2 @ArchbishopSarah @Liturgy Not necessarily no. Especially not if it inspires others. Can also be nice for others to experience it vicariously.

Day two of the pilgrimage. Reflection at Lesnes Abbey, Morning Prayer at St John the Baptist in Erith, and a lovely visit with pupils at Holy Trinity C of E Primary School. Pilgrimage teaches us to keep walking - step by step - sustained by prayer and community.

@OGBURGKATHOLIK @Splougy …and Anglicans… it works better if contemporary RCs are seen as the largest fragment in the disintegrating Western Christianity. Many here mock the number of “Protestant“ denominations- that perspective changes when RC is simply one of them. Blessings.

I reject the umbrella category. Umbrella categories are unhelpful and unfair in theological discourse. If we are going to have a discourse then it should be one tradition against another, so that the perceived errors of one group aren’t unfairly lumped onto you, which detracts and shifts focus away from the real issues at hand. This was a common tactic employed against Luther by papal polemicist during the reformation, and it stifled dialogue and prevented any kind of progress. Also Luther wasn’t the first person ever to dissent from papal authority. To not just a couple, you had the Waldensians, and the Hussites(Moravian Church). They were hunted and slaughtered by Vatican crusades. Luther was just the most successful dissenter because the Princes of Germany defended him and kept him safe from Papal and Imperial violence against him. Using the term Protestant, a term that has its origins in the Lutheran reformation as an umbrella to cover every single group that dissents from Rome is just silly. They should all be held to the test within the confines of their own tradition and their own arguments. The reality is that the Lutheran Church is vastly different than the reformed groups and modern day Baptist, charismatics, and non denoms. Just because some of these groups share similar or common ideas like Scripture alone, doesn’t mean we are the same. If that were the case, you could lump Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Lutheran together based on the idea that they all three adhere to true physical bodily presence of Christ in the Lord’s supper, but no one would lump those groups together and argue like that. I advocate that if we want to have dialogue about these then we should only measure one tradition against another single tradition. That’s the safest and best way to have theological discourse, I’m constantly having to defend Lutheranism against attacks and insinuations that we are guilty of something that the Baptist or non denominational are doing, and usually these are things that we Lutherans vehemently oppose and our confessional statements reject and condemn. I know this was a book, but I just think it would be helpful. I think we would see much more clearly if we were all just more honest and understanding with one another, because at the end of the day, we love Christ and desire to honor him with all of our hearts just the same as the people we are having dialogue with(usually). Which means we are brothers and sisters in Christ, at least that’s my belief.

@roseg @JudyAbel2 @ArchbishopSarah Yes - because walking is such an expensive way to get places nowadays 🙃

@JudyAbel2 @ArchbishopSarah @Liturgy PR strategy. Using money better spent on the poor

@JudyAbel2 @ArchbishopSarah The ABC, like other Christian leaders, will not only have private devotions. I rejoice at a renewal of pilgrimage (I’m blogging about mine currently). Blessings.

@Liturgy @ArchbishopSarah Sorry maybe what I said was unfair but everything is filmed and online now. Thought we’re not really meant to tell the world when we undertake acts of devotion and are meant to pray in secret. Maybe I got that wrong or misunderstood and am probably in error many times myself.

Walking further into Holy Week liturgy.co.nz/walking-furthe…

@JudyAbel2 @ArchbishopSarah No idea what your point is, Judy - or to whom you are addressing this? How many pilgrimages have you been on? Blessings.

@ArchbishopSarah @Liturgy Isn’t pilgrimage a private act of devotion?

Commemorating St Joseph: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Jos…

@WalkerMarcus Disappointing - yes; surprising, here, sadly - no. Twitter has become polarised and a tool for polarising. It literally rewards those who rage bait and reaction farm. Thank you, @WalkerMarcus for your sanity. Blessings.

I have to say, the reaction on here to Archbishop Sarah’s pilgrimage is very disappointing. First of all, the facts: she is breaking her pilgrimage to attend the Lords to vote on the abortion amendments, which obviously took some organisation because the pilgrimage was long planned and the date of the Lords debate only announced on Friday.

A Camino/pilgrimage lens on Holy Week in the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola has much in common with the Stations of the Cross. liturgy.co.nz/walking-furthe…

@FrMatkin 😮

It occurred to me today that I might be the only parish priest in the entire Anglican Church in North America that says Mass correctly.

@dlongenecker1 Someone has been reading my website: liturgy.co.nz/unity-begins-w…

How do you expect to get the right answer if you ask the wrong question?

@CatholicPods Same way we still do it… 🙃 Blessings

Remarkable how different procedure for selecting bishops was in the early Church. St. Leo the Great said bishops should be elected from among the clergy of their own diocese, and the clergy and laity of the diocese must consent, but "in no case is a candidate to be forced on a church against its will" (Jalland). Bishops were not to be moved from diocese to diocese without serious reason.

Commemorating Cyril of Jerusalem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_of_…

@mthr_alice Twitter has, sadly, got rougher.

Had an accidental 5 month break from the X app when I got a new phone and lost my password 😅. But I missed all the poetry I learn from here, so I am back.