all cleaned up!  It just becomes ever more beautiful and will shortly again be gracing the Chapel:

Canonical law is important for the following works: it restrains the Adamic nature which is always climbing up to God to rearrange and reord...

You see, the Word—both audible and visible—is the soul of that mystical Body, the church.  Church discipline is its strength. The care, pres...

For he knows that all Scripture is one perfect and harmonized instrument of God, which from different sounds gives forth one saving voice to...

Would it be Lutheran to teach that when we have been justified by faith, we are to keep the Law and in fact, by the Spirit, to grow in fulfi...

I decided to pull out a volume of poetry.  I'd not read some in way too long.  I noted in front that it was a volume I'd given my mo...

The evangelical catholic church is the true catholic church.  She does not follow the perversion of Rome which fails to distinguish properly...

Just as the calling of ministers belongs to the entire church, so also their removal belongs to the entire church. — Blessed Johann Gerhard,...

Where affliction is, true salvation is also there. —St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on Ephesians, 8.

So, papa, how do you like that new iPad I got you for your birthday ?

...this year WE moved in mid April; we moved Bekah back in at the end of April; we moved David and Meaghan to Highland at the end of May; an...

that Mark's Daily Apple linked to: here .

[Readings:  Genesis 2:7, 18-24;   1 John 4:7-19] He gave names. That was how the man exercised the dominion that the Lord God had given him...

Being rather an introvert by nature, home has always been where I prefer being more than any place in the world. That hasn't changed wit...

Can be tricky.  I mean, the family may have their heart set on some pieces that simply do not serve the Church's mandate to proclaim the...

The predicates of Christ are the predicates of the church. — Dr. Kenneth Korby, The Pastoral Office and the Priesthood of Believers, Lord Je...

Investiture differs from ordination because ordination occurs just once, but investiture is repeated as often as anyone who has been ordaine...

For your sake He suffered death, that you might die to your sins.  His face endured spitting, that you might not shrink from scorn.  He dran...

of a Church in Lithuania.  Read about it here .  Most heartening!

It is in his body that Jesus offers the sacrifice. It is in his body that we draw near to God. The temple in which we now worship God is the...