#Anglican Communion

[midwesternartlovertraveler]

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Casper, Wyoming https://midwesternartlovertraveler.tumblr.com/

[mel-rhodes-place]

EUROPE PREPARES FOR WWIII

(Europe is planning for WW3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSnu52Oy_gw) European nations are gearing up for an all-out war on the continent as Ukraine launched US-made missiles into Russia for the first time and Vladimir Putin officially lowered the threshold for Moscow to consider a nuclear strike. Germany’s foreign minister yesterday vowed her country ‘will not be intimidated’ by Putin,…

[mrpagesfrontispiece]

People will literally call you a Protestant when you don't follow Sola Scriptura or Sola Fide just because you aren't Catholic or Orthodox

[keendaanmaa]

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[renlyslittlerose]

Me trying desperately to remember all I learned about Catholicism in a class I took on the Reformation over a decade ago so I can write some filthy priest obikin smut for @veloursdor

[merthwyn]

The more I distance myself from (mainly) low Protestantism/Evangelicals and the more deep I get into Traditional denominations, the more I see myself longing for Holy Communion daily. Even now that I struggle with faith. And by longing I don't mean anything related to addiction or obsession. I see it as part of my whole being. In the same way I see (or used to see at least) prayer and thanksgiving, if not more.

[hymnsofheresy]

ime, orthodoxy is just as anti-choice and anti-gay as catholicism. have you tried anglo-catholicism?

yes, i have. let me just say i have just as many issues with joining the anglican communion as i do joining the catholic and orthodox communions. they just happen to be different concerns.

[bread-and-whine-faggot]

The funny result of converting into the Episcopalian Church is that I find myself re-litigating the Reformation with my mom as a consequence of her loyalty to my anabaptist ancestors. She's not even a Christian but she is a Protestant.

[aelloposchrysopterus]

The ho-ho-ho-ly eucharist

Cookies represent the body of Santa while the milk represents the blood of Santa

[saynaija]

Anglican Bishop Seeks Collaboration With EFCC

Anglican Bishop Seeks Collaboration With EFCC The Bishop of Anglican Communion Diocese of Makurdi, Rt. Rev. Dr. N. N. Inyom today, September 5, declared the church’s support for the efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in ridding the country of economic and financial crimes, including corruption. The cleric who led a delegation on a courtesy visit to the Makurdi Zonal…

[rhapsodomancer]

As I am acquainting myself with the Episcopalian church, I'm realizing that this is where all of the gay ex-Catholics ended up after the requisite period of shame-induced atheism or agnosticism, like. I guess I knew it but I didn't like, realize it

[anarchobaptist]

[heresylog]

hey question: how much do you know about anglicanism?

askin bc i saw a sign for an anglican church a couple weeks ago that was talking about the eucharist and i was like "are they allowed to do that???"

(i looked it up and i still don't know if they're allowed to do that or not bc i barely know anything about anglicanism 😭)

You come to me, a Catholic, and ask about the Anglican Church? 🤨

I kid. I know that they have their own communion and beliefs surrounding that. We, as Catholics, are asked not to participate even if we are “eligible” to do so in their church. We can participate in a regular “breaking bread” type ceremony or event as long as it does not purport to be, even in part, the true Body or Blood of Jesus.

[merthwyn]

Evangelicals are weird. They despise ascetic life because we're called to "be in the world but not of this world" but when they meet someone who struggles with loneliness and rejection they rebuke him for "wanting to be of this world" and tell him that "Jesus is all they need". They also despise traditionalists for their tradition calling it "worldly" and the same time you can't tell if their church building is actually a church or a cinema and and if their music is actually Christian or some Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift song.

When I was a "hardcore Evangelical" I had the same behaviour towards ascetic life that I described above. As for communion, it was just something I "liked doing". The Liturgy itself was dull, boring and of minor importance. Now, the more I go back to my roots (a.k.a. traditional denominations like Orthodoxy, Catholicism and High Anglicanism) I can see that ascetic life, communion and Liturgy are crucial to my life. One of my goals is to dive more into the life of the hermites. I'm sure this will be crucial to my faith, especially now that I struggle with it. During the Liturgy I feel at home. As for communion, it is now that I struggle with the image of God that I wish I could receive it every single day. As I am still affected by Evangelical beliefs, I asked my priest about whether I should stop receiving it because of my faith issues and I was scared of what the answer will be. Luckily, he said that there's no reason for me to do that. It's not that I'm an atheist or I mock God. I just struggle. I'm sick. And sick people are not banned from recieving communion. I was really relieved..

I feel like the prodigal son who left home to live his life. Evangelicalism for me was this "life" I wanted to live. Now I'm on the way back home, as I saw that this "life" emptied myself.

What's one aspect of Apostolic Christianity (Orthodoxy and Catholicism) you could never live without and why?

The Eucharist for sure. The entire Liturgy revolves around consuming the Flesh and Blood of our Lord.

[kiragecko]

I keep hearing people say that Protestants don’t have Communion (also called the Lord’s Supper, the Eucharist, Mass, and the Blessed Sacrament¹). As a Protestant that has observed Communion in my church my whole life, this is somewhat confusing.

‘Protestant’ includes a lot of very different branches of Christianity. I want to find out which types of Protestants, if any, actually don’t have Communion.

So I have a set of polls for you! This one is the non-American poll². In a moment I’ll reblog with the American version. If you have ever attended a Protestant church enough to know if they did or did not practice Communion, please vote!

(If you don’t know what denomination you attend/attended, there’s some more info after the poll.)

Denominations include:

Lutheran

Anglican - also call Episcopalian, or the Church of England

Methodist - including Nazarenes and the Salvation Army

Anabaptist – including the Amish, Hutterites, Mennonites, River Brethrens, and Schwarzenau Brethren/German Baptists

English Dissenters – including Plymouth Brethren, Puritans, and Quakers

Reformed - also called Calvinists, and including Presbyterians, and Congregationalists

Baptist

United – including Free Evangelicals

Nondenominational - including E-Free and people who primarily describe themselves as Born-Again

Pentecostal - including people who primarily describe themselves as Charismatic or Evangelical (and, due to lack of space, also including Neo-charismatic and postdenominational groups like Vineyard, Newfrontiers, and New Life Fellowship)

Note - due to space restraints and my biases, major denomications may have been relegated to 'Other'. Especially non-North American ones. I apologize.

¹ Some of these terms have slightly different meanings – the goal here is to get across the general idea

² The United States has been isolated due to the unique evolution of terminology there. Ie. Your Baptists are weird, and I don't know how many other denominations also get weird when they cross the border. Plus there's lots of Americans on Tumblr, and I want to actually see other results.

[loving-n0t-heyting]

The fact the anglican communion maintains cults of martyrdom around thomas a beckett and thomas more is funny in a quintessentially anglican way. If theyre martyrs for the true faith then that says some very un-anglican things about the identity of the true faith, no? But the ecumenical overtones and british nostalgia are too potent to resist!