Eric M. Parker+

@barukalas linen maxxing, love to see it

Celebrating Cinco de Derby

@oblatenate the Church needs more Nates

Which I’d love to do, tbh. Think and read and write about theology? Give spiritual direction? Preach? Administer the sacraments? All the time? Sign me up. But there are men and women here who will never come to my church. God has me here with them now and hasn’t released me.

I feel I may never enter “full-time ministry” (i.e. full financial reliance on the church). Not just because I wouldn’t have opportunities like this, but also because I would lose a certain…earthiness? I’d just float in the world of ideas and become unrelatable.

@solasectora hey, sorry to comment here, but I'm trying not to engage with the illicit accounts a parishioner was commenting on. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. We are currently addressing this matter pastorally.

I learned "Muddy Road" from a 1960s recording of Claude Wolfenbarger of Grainger County, Tennessee. The first part of the melody is the same as "Willie Moore." My instrument is a traditional gourd banjo handmade by myself. My tuning is dADF♯A ~ gDGBD.

"Misogynistic sliver of North American Anglicanism" -- the @1662IE has polemicized the liturgy. This is why the Prayer Book should be a product of the whole Church, not just a few editors with an axe to grind.

@WalmartThomist @anglochog She actually appeared to tell them to stop praying to her because Cranmer

@anglochog This apparition could be true and Anglicanism would still be false. It's not like she gave any unique indications of the truth of Anglicanism.

Romanism is fake because our Lady appeared to Anglican monks and confirmed Anglicanism as true. See Father Ignatius' description of the Marian apparition at the Llanthony convent in 1885.

You love to see it.

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT for ALL Americans 🇺🇸 The Farmers’ Almanac, a cornerstone American institution published continuously since 1818, has been saved. Proud doesn’t begin to cover it. Congratulations to the new owner: my little brother Tim Konrad 🇺🇸🇺🇸

@oblatenate Yes, an intractable demand that we say the Daily Office this morning as a family without exception because "good habits etc." can be a pioius way of neglecting quality time with wife and kids.

@ericmparker Extreme but makes the point quite clearly. Even less violent things: that chore that you know is yours or the honey-do list item you said you'd do; helping the kids with the homework; cooking family dinner when your spouse will be home late from work. Dishes, sweeping, playing.

There’s a kind of zeal that leads people to neglect family duties and excuse it because they are praying, studying theology, reading the Bible, etc. I don’t think this pleases God. (Cf. Mark 7:11-13, 1 Tim. 5:8) I am guilty of this.

@mjjhoskin And it's set in my home state of Mississippi. The Cohen Brothers do an outstanding job of encapsulating southern culture in this film. In some ways it reminded me of my childhood and my grandparents' generation who have gone to be with our Lord. Definitely a favorite!

A reminder that we already have a perfectly fine film adaptation of The Odyssey.

@oblatenate @mrdavidrowe @barukalas I find it troubling that some of our parishes are permitted to use the 2019, not because of the 2019 per se, but because of the blanket permission to drastically change the liturgy without any open discussion of the consequences.

@mrdavidrowe @barukalas Yeah, I hear.

Okay. I now kind of wish we could use the 2019 BCP (even though we're an REC parish) for two reasons: 1. The kalendar, and 2. the St. Bernard Breviary 😮‍💨 What a beautiful and well-structured book.

My cries climbed up, and he bent down from sacred throne, His eyes unto my case, his ears unto my moan. —Sidney Psalter, Psalm 18

Enjoy the feast as you are able!

@barukalas One of St. Tommy's faves!

I’ve started a reading group with our parish teens. We’re beginning with St. John Damascene.

@jessenigro @JamesDiddams too soon

@JamesDiddams lol, I’m howling right now! Oh man…

I lived in Wilmington, DE for a while and, because there were no ACNA churches near there, I attended a couple of TEC parishes, with mixed results. There was one in particular that I was excited about because it was close to my apartment and advertised itself as "Anglo-Catholic." "Great," I thought. Since I'm partial to high church style liturgy, and, it being 5 minutes away, it seemed like I might have found the place for me. So I drove up to the church, pulling into the empty parking lot at 9:55am, right on time for the 10am service, and as I approached the front entrance, the rector was also walking up on a perpendicular path, I think coming from the parsonage. When he met me at the front door, right on time for his service, I kid you not he looked at me over his mask (this was March of 2022) and said to me in a flustered voice "Oh, hello.... are you here to use the restroom?" I was taken aback. What did he mean 'am I here to use the restroom'? I was there for a church service... at a church... at the advertised time for the church service I had found online. - I said "No, I'm here for the service, did I come at the wrong time?" - "Oh, no, you're not here at the wrong time... but you will need a mask to come inside." So I went back to my car, got a mask, and then went inside. There were two older women, I think in their 60s, an organist (who played beautifully) and the rector. The service was, in fairness, pretty high church, all read straight from the '79 BCP. The only thing I remember about the homily was the rector talking about how he had used to be Roman Catholic but then switched to TEC for... reasons. At the conclusion of the service the two old ladies came and spoke with me and were nice enough; the rector did not acknowledge his visitor but instead chatted with the organist. This experience, though weird and bit disconcerting, was nevertheless highly informative about how so many mainline churches with significant endowments are able to function as aristocratic fiefdoms for their clergy, who do not have to be concerned with evangelism and might even have a NIMBY attitude when it comes to new congregants. Being vested with authority over a parish like this one in Wilmington, DE effectively makes you a minor lord over a small plot of land where you can live out your days happily, especially if nobody new ever darkens your threshold.

@WVPitt you went to Rwanda for that?

One thing I love about Rwanda is that I can get beef tips and greens for breakfast.