The Anglican Digest - Winter 2021

WINTER A.D.
2021
VOL. 63 NO. 4
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A Letter from the
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Dear Digest Family:
I recently attended a conference called RADVO. The acronym stands

for “radical vocation,” and it is a renewal conference for catholic and
evangelical clergy committed to the “faith once delivered.” Part dia-
logue, part worship, part fellowship, and part teaching, the confer-
ence renewed my vocation and hope for our beloved Anglican Com-
munion. The conference took place at Church of the Incarnation,
Dallas, Texas.
As I looked around at one point, there were large parishes repre-

sented with big expansions planned or underway. There were also
small parishes with big renewals of faith and outreach. When I start-
ed imagining Louis Armstong singing “What a Wonderful World,”
the words of the prophet Isaiah popped into my head: “Those who
hope in the Lord will renew their strength.” The Anglican Digest is a
ministry of that hope and the Lord’s strength.
In these pages you will find stories of renewal, strength, and hope
— of large, dynamic parishes like St. Martin’s, Houston, and other,
small parishes where the faith is just as vibrant.
The Bible tells us it only takes a mustard seed or even just the fringe
of His garment to make all the difference. Have you taken hold of
that kind of grace? It makes all the difference indeed.
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The Rev. Charleston David Wilson
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6 Letter from the Editor
7 Congratulations, St. Martin’s, Houston
11 Introit
14 Gathering Light in Advent
18 Carpentry Years
19 Angels
24 Angel Alert
25 Beef Wessington
33 Bidden or Unbidden
36 Christus Vincit! Christus Regnat!
Christus Imperat¡
40 God is Friendship
44 Classic Friendship
45 Herstory
47 Ice Cream
49 The Pandemic’s Potential as an Impetus for
Religious Revival
51 Trinity and Creed
55 Short Story: The Man on the Box
62 Wedding Nuptials
63 Necrology
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A Letter from the Editor

Dear Readers of TAD,
Amidst all of the bad news confronting us on a daily basis (the
pandemic, terrorist attacks, environmental problems, etc.), to
what do we look for good news? The Anglican Digest is full of good
news—news of how God comes to us in our daily lives, news of
the saving faith of the Church through the ages, news of the lives
of the saints… Even if the topic happens to be bad news, like the
bad news of sin, the good news solution is always presented as well.
Our faith is, after all, the Good News of Jesus Christ. In the light of
that Good News, all else pales in comparison.
In this issue there is indeed much good news! Take special note
of some good news that every Episcopalian, indeed, every Chris-
tian, should celebrate. In the midst of the pandemic, St. Martin’s,
Houston, had its $67MM expansion blessed, a project that took 6
years to complete and finally came to fruition this past August, the
result of which will bless countless souls for generations to come.
Read about this amazing accomplishment beginning on page 7,
and when you’re in Houston, make St. Martin’s part of your visit.
Do you have good news to share concerning
what is happening in your parish? Let TAD
know, so that the Anglican world can cele-
brate with you!
Faithfully yours,
The Rev’d Dr. Fredrick A. Robinson

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Congratulations, 10,000 baptized members.

St. Martin’s Church! According to the Rector, the
Rev’d Dr. Russell Levenson,
In the Episcopal Church, they have four or five new
plagued for decades by declin- member classes a year. Every
ing numbers, it is especially new member, whether from
good news when one hears of another Christian tradition,
a parish that is “bucking the no Christian tradition, or
trend.” St. Martin’s, Houston, transferring from another
is at the top of that list! St. Episcopal parish, must attend
Martin’s, the largest Episcopal Membership 101 and is asked
Church in North America, to prayerfully consider mak-
has a membership of almost ing a pledge before becoming
a member. The New Member
classes normally have 40 to 50
persons per class!
St. Martin’s found itself in

need of more space for wor-
ship, programming, and pas-
toral care if they were going to
meet the needs of the current
congregation as well as con-
tinue their pattern of growth.
Therefore, in 2015 they
embarked on their “Build-
ing for the Ages” program
that reached its conclusion
last August. Honorary co-
St. Martin’s Church, chairs for the five-year cam-
Houston, Texas paign were the late President
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George H.W. Bush and First

Lady Barbara Bush and the
Honorable James A. Baker, III
and Mrs. Susan Garrett Baker.
The Bakers with Neil and Ma-
ria Bush attended the special
recognition ceremony on 22
August of this year.
Bishop Don Wimberly
Wimberly was brought out

Hon. James Baker III, Mrs. of retirement to do the bless-
Susan Garrett Baker, ings of the weekend!). A tra-
Mrs. Laura Levenson, the ditional Texas Barbecue for
Rev’d Dr. Russell Levenson the entire parish was held on
Saturday night, complete with
On August 21 and 22, five new entertainment by Fr. Russ and
buildings, three complete- Laura Levenson and fireworks
ly renovated buildings, and at the end of the evening.
six new meditation gardens
were dedicated and blessed The total cost of the building
by Bishop Don Wimberly, re- project was $67 million. So
tired Bishop of the Diocese of far, over $63 million has been
Texas (The Diocesan and As- raised in pledges!
sistant Bishops of the diocese
were on sabbatical, so Bishop Among the renovated build-
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ings blessed was St. Martin’s

original church, which had
been called the Old Church,
now renamed Christ Chapel.
During the blessing, Fr. Lev-
enson placed a stone Canter-
bury Cross in the top of the
altar. The cross, along with
Laura and Fr. Russ
a similar one placed in the
altar of the Parish Life Cen-
ter, was made for St. Martin’s A celebratory blessing of the
from stone saved during the entire project took place on
restoration of a 12th century Sunday morning in a full
flying buttress of Canterbury church with a seating ca
Cathedral. “These spiritual pacity of 1000.
and artistic treasures link St.
Martin’s new worship spaces Both Bishops preached on the
to centuries of Anglican tra- Gospel selected for the occa-
dition,” stated Levenson. sion: The Great Commission.
The two had not collaborated,
but their sermons dovetailed
as they both emphasized the
future. “Where there is no
faith in the future, there is no
power in the present,” stat-
ed Bp. Wimberly. “We learn
from the past so that we can
live into the future,” said Fr.
Levenson. Then he quoted
Christ Chapel, formerly Shakespeare’s The Tempest:
known as the Old Church “All history is prologue.”
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The Rev’d Dr. Russell Leven-

son came to St. Martin’s in
2007, and since then it has
grown by 20% in baptized
members. Levenson says the
parish “has grown under all
of my predecessors and I be-
lieve it’s because of that ‘secret
sauce,’ the faithful preaching down to us by our forbears.!’”
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INTROIT: AFTER IKE

The Rev’d Dr. Jason M. Haddox
Norman, Oklahoma
The community of Gilchrist, Texas, is located about thirty miles

east of Galveston, Texas, on the Bolivar Peninsula. Casa Alle-
gre (“Happy House” or “House of Joy”) was the beach cabin that
belonged to my great-grandmother, my grandmother, and finally
my parents. Multiple generations of family and friends spent
long stretches of summer vacations there, enjoying the sand and
water and Gulf breezes. The kitchen table was a 4’ by 8’ slab of
plywood mounted on thick timber legs and covered with red for-
mica, from which my mother made a virtue of necessity by deco-
rating around it with every watermelon-themed knick-knack she
could locate. A wall rack by the front door
held a supply of faded baseball caps and
fishermen’s hats to be worn outdoors
during the heat of the day, or donned
in the evenings as our “thinking caps”
for epic late-night games of Trivial
Pursuit and Monopoly. Photo:
Public Domain
Early on the morning of 13 September 2008, Hurricane Ike made
landfall over the east end of Galveston Island, sending a 12-foot
wall of water over the peninsula and obliterating everything in
its path. The community of Gilchrist received the very worst of
the storm surge. Casa Allegre was destroyed, along with every
other structure in the vicinity.
The words of this lament, based on Psalm 137, arose in the days
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after the storm as I grieved the loss from New Jersey, and waited
to hear from family and friends.
By the waters of Bolivar we sat down and wept

when we remembered you, O Gilchrist,
when we considered you, our House of Joy.
We hung up our thinking caps on a lonely scrub cedar,

on a single bare post in the midst of an empty sand flat,
and our hearts bowed down with grief.
We uncovered our heads in the sunlight and salt air

and our hearts were heavy with sorrow.
How shall we play silly games

(Trivial Pursuit, Dominos,
Pigmania,)
weak with laughter, late into
the night
on a red kitchen table,
surrounded by watermelons
when there is neither game
board, nor table,
nor watermelons to cheer us
on?
How shall joys be multiplied,

and sorrows divided, in the
breeze and afternoon shade,
if there is no place to sit down Gilchrist, Texas, after Hurricane
together, under your shadow? Ike. Photo: Public Domain
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How shall memories be made and shared and kept

if there is no gathering place?
And now, O Lord of sea and sky, of waters and winds, hear us:
Give heed to our lament, Maker of starfish and sand dollars.
Lean down and listen to us, who mourn for what is no more;
Pay attention to us, who grieve for what has been lost.
From the morning sun, rising over the Gulf, come to us;
With the first stars at twilight, as cicadas play an evening hymn,
show yourself to us.
Surround us on every side, that we may not drown in despair
or distress;
when the winds of loss and waves of grief howl and rage,
come quickly and rescue us.
Let this place, this empty and desolate sand flat, be again a holy
place,
a place set apart, for those who will come here:
a sanctuary for birds, and sand crabs, and salt grasses,
a smooth and level ground for tents and campfires.
Let this small patch of earth know growth and greenness once
more;
let this air ring with the laughter and life of your little ones.
Fill us with beloved memory and show us the way forward
and bring us up, to the shady front porch of your House of Joy,
for you are the God of the living,
in you all things live and move and have their being,
and in you nothing Loved is ever truly lost.
Let us give to our God our thanks and praise
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GATHERING LIGHT vibrations, compromising

IN ADVENT the razor-sharp images he
required. And he required at
The Rev’d Michael P. Durning, least four hours to produce
Canon to the Ordinary
Emeritus, Diocese of one photograph.
Southwest Florida
One December day, we were
Long before ordination, I photographing the cover of
worked in the publishing a cookbook. Once the scene
business as an Art Director. was ready, he would carefully
I designed cookbooks. As a position the lights. He would
designer, one of my great joys then open the lens of the cam-
was collaborating with some era, darken the room, and
very creative and well-known load the film. Once satisfied
photographers. Among them that the air was still, he would
was “Fred,” a man who un- hit a master switch, causing a
knowingly taught me about sudden “pop” of brilliant light
the power of gathering light that instantly flooded the en-
during Advent. Here’s how he tire studio and instantly dis-
did it. appeared. He would regulate
Fred was a perfectionist who

could be hard to work with.
He was a terror to his assis-
tants. He used an old-fash-
ioned box camera that re-
quired 8x10 inch film, film
that he insisted on processing
himself. His firm belief: The
“open-and-close” mechanism
of a camera shutter caused Public Domain
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the exposure by counting the ambient light might sneak in

number of “pops” of light. under the door cracks. So,
Fred was layering light onto when the lights go out, there
the film. While a hard man to is no darkness like the velvety
work with, Fred’s knowledge darkness of a photographer’s
of how light behaved made studio.
him an in-demand artist.
Amid that inky blindness and
I’m embarrassed to mention blinding light, I began to real-
my role in this process: 1) ize that if I kept my eyes open,
return to the office with the the same light that was being
photographs and 2) be sure painted onto the film plane
that the photographer was would also do the same thing
paid. As all this photograph- to my own eye lens. After a
ic “magic” happened, I was while, the image of the sur-
relegated to sit in the midst rounding studio would im-
of all that flashing light with press itself on my evolving vi-
hours to think, to reflect, and sion. In the dark, I could “see”
to pray. the furniture, the artwork
pinned to the wall, and even
In a photographer’s studio, the details of the clock on the
stray light is the enemy-- it can opposite side of the room,
upset the delicate color bal- and the time of day. Vision in
ance expected by studio work. darkness evolves, one layer at
The studio is a place where a time, and it is a gradual pro-
all light is tightly controlled. cess.
Windows are often painted
matte black to seal off natural Not unlike sanctification.
light. Black duct tape is avail-
able for those occasions when Watch, for you do not know
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when the master of the house from afar. Gatherings were

will come, in the evening, or often live-streamed and
at midnight, or at cockcrow, or fraught with technical chal-
in the morning, lest he come lenges. We have sung God’s
suddenly and ﬁnd you asleep. praises often while wearing
Mark 13:35, 36 facemasks. Weddings and
Baptisms took on a modest,
somber air. For many, Holy
Communion, when received,
was extraordinary. Priests de-
livered the “last rites” through
hospital windows on behalf of
faithful people in COVID iso-
lation. In general, the light of
sacramental life of the Church
was reduced to a flicker.
I will recall this as the Acolyte

Photo from Patheos approaches the unlit wreath
Public Domain on the First Sunday of Advent.
The Church Year begins with
This year we approach Advent the quiet and modest act of
with fresh reminders of our lighting a candle. Unlike the
limitations. We have lived secular New Year’s Day, the
through a time of dimness. new liturgical year does not
Coffee hours were curtailed. begin with fireworks and lofty
Fellowship was awkward and resolutions—rather, it begins
limited. When possible to do with one flickering candle
so, we attended Mass “socially and the honest assessment
distanced” from one anoth- as found in 2 Corinthians 3:5
er. The Peace was exchanged “Not that we are competent
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in ourselves to claim anything first seem unconnected, small

for ourselves, but our compe- and flickering efforts, but they
tence comes from God.” (NIV). are not. Each builds upon the
And, unlike New Year’s Day, other, giving richness and
where resolutions gradually depth to the other and even
fade away, the Advent Wreath as we assess how COVID-19
grows in brilliance, add- has changed our world, we
ing light each week. Secular will have a blessed assur-
time diminishes. Sacred time ance: Even as we approach
grows. Advent light comes in the shortest and the darkest
layers and it grows in such of days, the light of Christ will
successive brilliance that we be available to us. All we need
can see things even through to do is open our eyes.
the darkness of our worst
days.
Is God Calling You?
As a priest reflecting on his
The Sisters of Saint Gregory
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have come to value and ap- women who are seeking a
preciate the demanding, ec- deepening call of devotion in
centric people like Fred who their spiritual journey. If you
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CARPENTRY YEARS Excelled in the trade

which all shared together.
Samuel Hodges
Did sisters or brothers
Was his divinity noticed watch Jesus at the work
while in the wood shop? And wonder if any trait
Young Jesus at work – odd or out of sync
Was he treated as one compared to laborers at hand?
with a more special flair?
Perhaps Jesus, absorbed in
When work was done his art,
was his more perfected found time for spirit thoughts.
Or did Joseph’s pride infuse He was pleasing two fathers
all who tried? while putting in his hours.
Methinks all who were trained
Some force within him
by Jesus’ foster father
suited the day at hand.
At evening coworkers all
showed pride in their toil,
Enjoying each other
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ANGELS You and I are human beings,

The Rev’d Matthew S. C. Olver, PhD
one of the most peculiar of the
creatures that God made. We
Christians believe that an- are visible, but we are more
gels are a very particular kind than that. Humans are a com-
of creature, very unlike you bination of the visible and the
and me. In the Nicene Creed, invisible: we are a soul that is
Christians confess that God is joined to a body.
the creator of things that are
visible and things that are in- When it comes time for us to
visible. A good deal of what die, only our bodies die. But
children are taught in school that doesn’t mean we stop ex-
is that which is visible: trees, isting, like when a plant dies.
insects, oceans, tree frogs, When we die, our souls con-
milk weed, and so on. But tinue to exist. St Paul teaches
they also learn about the in- about the general resurrec-
visible. They can observe the tion in the book of 1 Corin-
effects of gravity, which cause thians. He explains that when
any object to move toward Jesus returns to the earth, all
the earth at a calculable and the dead will be raised: some
predictable speed. Gravity is to fellowship with God and
invisible, but we all know that some to be separated from
it is real, and we study how it God. But in that resurrection,
works. our soul is joined back to the
body that God will recreate.
So, unlike apple trees and fish,
we are made up of things that
are visible and invisible.
Angels, on the other hand,
are entirely invisible. That
means that they are real; they
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are creatures without bodies, are angels.

which is rather hard to imag-
ine. In this way, angels are The depiction of angels in art
like God: “God is spirit, and and film is often misleading,
those who worship him must giving one the idea that angels
worship in spirit and truth” look like the chubby babies
(John 4:24). Angels are crea- you see on Christmas cards
tures who do not have bod- and in Baroque art. But the
ies, and thus aren’t limited by Bible doesn’t depict angels as
space and, it seems, cannot babies, as fat, or as especial-
die. Both Angels and God can ly cute. So, while Angels are
be present to me at my house spirits and don’t have bodies,
and to you at your house at they can make themselves vis-
the same time. ible to us in a way that makes
sense, usually in the form of a
One of the ideas about angels human being, which is often
is that people become an- how they are depicted in the
gels when they die, or at least Bible.
babies become angels when
they die; the Scriptures (let The first thing we should re-
alone the Church’s doctrine) member about angels is that
say nothing of the sort. God they appear all over the Bible,
creates each person uniquely. often at very important mo-
When a child is conceived, ments. They are sometimes
God creates a new person messengers, which is the lit-
in that moment. When we eral meaning of the Greek
die, we don’t become a dif- word that comes into English
ferent species, just as frogs as “angel.” In the Bible, they
don’t become kangaroos and appear to all sorts of people:
trees don’t become scorpions. to Hagar, the slave of Abra-
People are people and angels ham; to Abraham, Isaac, and
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Jacob; to Balaam, when he is When a person sees an angel,

on his donkey; to Elijah and it quickly is clear that this is
Elisha; an angel appears as fire a creature that is much more
to lead Israel to the promised like God than we are; see-
land; the Archangel Gabriel ing an angel fills that person
appears to the Blessed Virgin
Mary to tell her she will bear
Jesus; Gabriel also appears to
Zechariah, the father of John
the Baptist; and to Mary Mag-
dalene after the resurrection
of Jesus; and to many others.
Maybe some of you have seen
an angel. I have spoken to
people who have.
Angels often begin their mes-

sage in the same way: “Fear
not!” They seem to feel the
need to say this because see-
ing an angel is a bit like seeing
Aslan in Narnia: “‘Is he quite
safe? I shall feel rather ner-
vous about meeting a lion...’
‘Safe?’ said Mrs. Bever ‘...Safe! Seraphim are connected with
Who said anything about cherubim and ophanim as
safe? Course he isn’t safe. the three highest orders of at-
When you meet him, you go tendants on the Lord, and are
all trembly in your knees. But superior to the angels. Icon:
he’s good. He’s the King, I tell Christine Hales
you.’” Sarasota, Florida
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with awe and wonder. If this doing the worshiping are an-
is what an angel is like, how gels. They often have incense,
marvelous must God be like? and they are singing before
In fact, that’s the meaning of a throne (see Isaiah 6:2-4).
the name of the Archangel Angels, we might say, are the
Michael. His name means: priests of the invisible world,
“Who is like God?” In other leading the praises of God.
words, as awe-inspiring and “Therefore we praise you,
powerful as angels are, their joining our voices with an-
existence reminds us that they gels, and archangels, and all
are nothing compared to God the company of heaven, who
himself, the one who created forever sing this hymn to pro-
all that is, seen and unseen, claim the glory of your name.”
who upholds the universe When we enter into the praise
by his word of power; who of God, we are joining wor-
knows each of us, who loves ship that is already going on,
us and who made us for him- all the time, in the temple of
self. heaven.
Some angels bring messages, Finally, God has appointed

but others are priests: they angels to help us. The prayer
help to lead the worship of that celebrates St. Michael
God that takes place in the and all the angels begins like
heavenly temple. Almost ev- this: “Everlasting God, you
ery time a person in the Bible have ordained and consti-
is given a vision of where God tuted in a wonderful order
is, there are a few common the ministries of angels and
features: God is depicted in mortals.” One of the ways that
a temple; in that temple, ev- God comes to us and answers
eryone is worshiping God; our prayers is through the
and most of the creatures ministry of his angels, St Mi-
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chael being the most promi- son to help and protect and
nent. It is from Jesus himself pray for them. Sometimes
that we learn that each person when angels assist us, we don’t
has a guardian angel. When even know it’s happening. In
he is reminding the disciples fact, in the book of Hebrews,
that children are to be fully we are told to “not neglect to
welcomed and included, he show hospitality to strangers,
reminds them that “in heaven for thereby some have enter-
tained angels unawares.”
In Revelation, chapter 12, we

hear about when some of the
angels fell and St Michael cast
Satan out of heaven. This sto-
ry is both strange and excit-
ing and I think it tells us two
things. First, it reminds us
that Satan is also a creature.
He wasn’t so powerful that
God had to throw him out
of heaven. The Leader of the
Heavenly Hosts, Michael, cast
St. Michael’s Victory him out. This is a reminder
Over the Devil that there is no evil or wicked
Coventry Cathedral thing that God cannot over-
Photo: Creative Commons, come. We don’t have to won-
Share Alike - Public Domain der whether evil will ultimate-
ly win. God uses his creatures
their angels always behold to overcome evil. When we
the face” of God. God has ap- encounter evil and difficulty,
pointed an angel for each per- we should run to God quick-
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ly for help. And we can also ANGEL ALERT

ask our own guardian angel, (Based on Psalm 103)
along with St. Michael and all
the angels, to help and protect Ruth Gerber Copeland
us, as God created them to do.
Bless the Lord, all ye Angels,
St. Michael the Archangel, Bless us believers also today;
defend us in battle. Surround us with winnowing
Be our safeguard against the wings, as we pause to
wickedness and snares of meditate and pray.
the Devil. On Angel Wings His answers
May God rebuke him, we come, and find us where
humbly pray, we are.
and do thou, Bless the Lord all ye Angels,
O Prince of the heavenly mighty in strength and
hosts, power –
by the power of God, Lives are changed, while on
thrust into hell Satan, our knees, each minute, day,
and all the evil spirits, and hour.
who prowl about the world
seeking the ruin of souls;
through the might of Jesus
Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Rev. Matthew S.C. Olver,
PhD, is the Assistant Profes-
sor of Liturgics and Pastoral
Theology at Nashotah House
Theological Seminary and an
assistant Priest at Zion Epis-
copal Church, Oconomowoc,
Wisconsin. Photo: Public Domain
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BEEF WESSINGTON
3 - 31/2 lb beef tenderloin
1 8oz package liverwurst spread
1/2 cup finely chopped mushrooms
2 Tbsps Cognac
1/4 cup finely chopped black olives
1 16oz package frozen puff pastry
6 bacon slices
Salt and pepper to taste
1 egg
1 Tbsp milk
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

Lightly salt and pepper tender-
loin on all sides. Place on rack
in shallow roasting pan, secur-
ing small end underneath. Wrap
bacon slices around tenderloin
and tie with string. Roast 20 to
25 minutes. Remove from oven.
Remove bacon and reserve; cool
to room temperature. Mix liv-
erwurst, mushrooms, Cognac,
and olives. Set aside. Remove
puff pastry from freezer and let reach room temperature,
about 20 minutes. Crumble bacon; add to liverwurst mix-
ture and blend well. Roll pastry on lightly floured surface
to 18x14 inches. Spread 1/3 of liverwurst mixture over top
of tenderloin. Place top side down in middle of pastry and
spread remaining liverwurst mixture over sides of tenderloin.
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Draw the long sides up to overlap slightly on the bottom of the

beef, at least 1/2 inch. Beat egg and milk together and brush
over pastry to seal. Trim ends of pastry and make an envelope
fold, brushing with egg wash to seal.
Transfer the pastry-covered meat to a lightly greased 13x9x2
inch pan. Roll out pastry trimmings, cut into decorative shapes
and arrange on top of pastry. Brush egg wash evenly over en-
tire pastry. Bake, uncovered, at 400 degrees for approximately
30 minutes or until pastry is brown. Let stand for 10 minutes
before carving with very sharp knife.
This is a show stopper and not so difficult to prepare.
Yield: 6 servings
Submitted by Mrs. Patricia Sullivan, Sarasota, Florida
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why it was so named. While it varies from Beef Wellington, might there be a fuller
explanation? Let us know if you happen to know!
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BIDDEN OR UNBIDDEN, I keep a little sign in my win-

GOD IS PRESENT dow that says “If God brings
Jan Spangler you to it He will bring you
Parrish, Florida through it,” and I believe that
100%. But I also believe that
If we examine the timelines of in return we have an obliga-
our lives and prayerfully ask tion to use our story to give
God, “Where were you then?” God the Glory when he plac-
we should be able to see his es someone squarely in our
hand working in every event. lives that needs to hear it.
From Saving, Rescuing, Pur-
suing, Comforting, Healing, As Lay Christians we often
Sustaining, Prospering, Dis- do a lousy job of evange-
ciplining, and yes, even Us- lism, wrongly leaving that
ing us. If we are not aware, up to ordained ministers/
then we are not paying close clergy. Sometimes we hesi-
enough attention. tate because of our inability
to quickly quote the correct
scripture off the top of our
heads, or fear that we might
say something offensive. But
it is my experience that shar-
ing our personal story, when
God needs us to reach out
and share it with someone go-
ing through something simi-
lar, gives us all the credibility
necessary. My story of God’s
hand in my life is personal.
Told in my own words from
my heart it may be just the
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message God needs to give Jesus Christ is with us every

someone at a particular time. second. He has not left us as
orphans. I firmly believe Ro-
I cartooned or doodled my mans 8: Nothing can separate
journey through Breast Can- us from Christ. I must, I must
cer. My doodles gave God the be brave enough to reach out
Glory, reminded me to have to someone going through
faith, and fear not. Totally something similar and offer
out of the blue, God opened them my personal conviction
all the doors for those doo- that they can count on Christ.
dles to become “Survivor Girl I sold my card business for $1
Cards” in cancer centers and a few years ago, but it’s still
mastectomy stores across the going strong.
U.S. Without thinking, I put
my email on the back of the
cards, and I began to get hun-
dreds of emails from cancer
patients in various stages of
their treatment and asking
me to pray for them. It was an
honor. It still is.
I worked as a nurse for over

30 years and understand their
language. I lost my mother to
cancer when she was 34, and
my grandmother died from it
when she was 40. My sisters
and myself went through it. I
understand fear, grief, fatigue,
and setbacks. But I also know
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It does not matter if it’s the fill in the big important dates
story of my Breast Cancer or and times, and begin praying
another story from my life. to ask God to “show me where
God’s Healing, Saving, Steer- you were, what you were doing
ing, Sustaining, Comforting, with me here,” and get ready
Prospering, or Disciplining ... to be amazed. Even when you
What matters is that He has may have been pushing him
been there through it all, and away, He was there. Embrace
I am grateful, and if He needs your story, and then offer it
me to embrace my story and back to the Lord for his Glory
share it to help another, then and see what he can do. Our
I must. We must. Our story of lives are woven with His sto-
God working in our lives may ry. Bidden or unbidden, God
be the lifeline someone else is Present. We should not be
needs. shy about telling it.
I’ve enjoyed the same five la-
dies in a prayer group for over
31 years. We ask each other
weekly to share any opportu-
nities that we have been given
to tell someone about Christ.
This should always be the eas-
iest, most natural thing we do.
...Just joyfully tell someone
some tiny part of your story,
giving God his well-deserved vvv
Glory. Not “Woe is Me,” but Forgiveness is the fragrance
“Wow is Me!” that the violet sheds on the
I invite you to make for your- heel that has crushed it.
selves a timeline of your lives; George Roemisch
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CHRISTUS VINCIT! sessment – no one could have

CHRISTUS REGNAT! scripted the turmoil we have
CHRISTUS IMPERAT! seen in the world, our nation,
and indeed our own personal
The Rev’d Douglas E. Anderson lives. Pandemic aside, many
Rector, Church of the Advent problems and tensions pres-
Boston, Massachusetts
ent in our society have been
laid bare, and I can add little
I was speaking to a priest to the more competent assess-
friend, and he said, “If the BBC ment made by others.
had made a drama about the
last twelve months, it would Still, I cannot help but take
get terrible reviews. No one note of a further tension that
would watch it, the plot being is present, for Christians at
utterly wild and unbelievable.” least: the tension between
I cannot disagree with his as- concerns of this world and
“ultimate things.” This tur-
moil has always been present
in Christian history, and we
should not have the hubris to
think that our generation is
somehow unique in this re-
gard.
On one hand, “our com-

monwealth is in heaven”
(Phil 3:20), and as Christians
we “desire a better country,
that is, a heavenly one” (Heb
11:16). In tension with this is
Public domain via Masala.com the fact that we pray daily that
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God’s kingdom will come – planations and answers to our

here, now – on earth as it is in mortality in politics … Men
heaven. and women sincerely profess-
ing that their preferred candi-
Two articles set me think- date is God’s anointed, their
ing about this tension. The opponent the antichrist, and
first, by Ed Condon [https:// the peaceful transfer of power
www.firstthings.com/web-ex in the Apocalypse.”
clusives/2021/01/the-lim
its-of-politics], speaks of the
ultimate significance of soci-
ety elevating politics. He sets
the context—a thesis about
fear of our mortality—and
states, “COVID-19 has re-
vealed a crisis of faith, and the
evidence is all around us. The
coronavirus has taken a dead-
ly toll, and has made us all
suddenly aware that we could
die.”
He continues: “When politics

replaces religion as the object
of faith, our fear of death also Majestas Domini and
leads us to misplaced messian- Heavenly Jerusalem ,
ic expectations. In this country Fresco, c.1080
we have seen many drawn to Eglise Saint-Theudere,
the gnosticism of conspiracy Saint-Chef
theories and Internet dema- Author unknown
gogues, devotedly seeking ex- Public domain
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The second article is by society, and myriad other

David Goodhew [https:// problems. But there must also
livingchurch.org/cove be a vertical dimension to our
nant/2021/01/11/the-episco existence, the numinous; a re-
pal-church-in-2050/], who minder of mankind’s eternal
writes of our need for a robust destiny and destination, what
theology of the eschaton, “the the hymn “The Church’s One
end,” and that a legitimate Foundation” calls “the vision
Anglican response to politics glorious.”
as an object of faith is
Moreover, as Anglican Chris-
“readiness to talk about heav- tians, we are careful that the
en, hell, death, and judgment. vertical dimension informs
It means a yearning for resur- our concern for the things of
rection and making communi- this life. As Goodhew writes,
ties of resurrection, things that “Focus on eschatology does
seem particularly appropriate not mean ignoring what is go-
for the post-pandemic world.” ing on around us. Indeed, it
fits with a passionate engage-
Certainly, we can remind our- ment with the present.” Our
selves that our salvation, and Tuesday night community
that of the world, is in Christ dinner, for example, is a cor-
alone. Condon makes the poral work of mercy, yes, but
point that political messiahs is ultimately an act of worship
are what St. Paul calls “anoth- of Jesus, present in his poor
er gospel,” and are at best a (Matthew 25:4). Because we
temporary analgesic. We pray have a vision of Christ’s king-
for our civil leaders at every dom, we are called to make
Mass, as indeed we should. the signs of that kingdom
We are (rightly!) concerned present in the here and now.
for public health, justice in
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with God and each other in

Christ” (Catechism, BCP, p.
855). It is the Church’s unique
task, God being our helper, to
seek after God, bring the na-
tions into his fold, pray for an
outpouring of the Holy Spir-
it, and hasten the coming of
Christ’s kingdom. We alone
have the task to proclaim truly
ultimate things: Christ’s victo-
ry over Satan, sin, and death,
and the new and abundant life
we have in him.
Christ conquers!
From the website of
Christ reigns!
Church of the Advent
Christ rules!
There are many worthy orga- From Fr. Anderson’s communi-
nizations and groups in soci- cation to his parish on 22 Jan-
ety which exist to address the uary 2021.
ills of society, and indeed the vvv
Church has her part to play in The greater part of our happi-
this regard. One remembers ness or misery depends on our
that schools and hospitals dispositions, not our circum-
were, at their inception, eccle- stances. We carry the seeds
siastical foundations. Yet the of the one or the other about
Church has the unique voca- with us in our minds wherev-
tion to proclaim the saving er we go. Martha Washington
medicine of the Gospel which
“restores all people to unity vvv
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GOD IS FRIENDSHIP of Rievaulx, I want to thank

God for friendship.
The Very Rev’d Sam Candler
Dean, Cathedral of St. Philip It was toward the end of his
Atlanta, GA ministry, as he was about to
The 12th of January is the face the end of his life, that Je-
feast day of St. Aelred, born sus turned to his followers, to
in Durham, England, around those who had left everything
1109. St. Aelred entered the to serve him, and he said, “I
Cistercian monastery at Riev- do not call you servants any
aulx in Yorkshire when he longer. I call you friends.”
was 24 years old, and in 1147, One of the early heroes of my
Aelred became the Abbot of ministry was the old Bap-
the monastery at Rievaulx. tist renegade minister Will
Aelred of Rievaulx is known
for his tender, wise, and most
famous work, a treatise titled
“Spiritual Friendship.” He said
there, in his own way, that
we know the love of Christ
by loving each other. Many
of us have heard it said, and
we have ourselves said, that
“God is Love.” But Aelred is
famous for giving that phrase
another twist. Aelred, in
discussing “spiritual friend-
ship,” said that “God is Friend-
ship.”
So, on the feast day of Aelred St. Aelred of Rievaulx
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Campbell, whose story would fat. Friends are people you

require dozens of sermons to have traveled with, people
tell. But he was the first per- you have journeyed with.
son I heard give this defini-
tion of a friend. “A friend,” Friends are people we have
he said, “is someone you’ve spilled a lot of salt with. We
spilled a lot of salt with.” have not only eaten salt to-
gether, but we have spilled
Later, I learned that that defi- salt. In fact, we have spilled
nition was spoken earlier by more than salt. We have
Don Quixote: “A man must spilled wine and beer. We
eat a peck of salt with his have spilled our lives. We have
friend, before he knows him.” sometimes spilled our gut.
In fact, the saying was prob-
ably first delivered by Cicero So it was with Jesus. It was
in the first century; “Trust no after Jesus had traveled with
one,” he said, “unless you have his disciples, after he had
eaten much salt with him.” journeyed with them, that he
called them friends. He had
All these definitions of confided in them; but he also
“friend” carry the same knew, undoubtedly, that he
meaning. A friend is someone would be betrayed by them.
with whom you have passed a
lot of time. You have spent so Friendship, then, is not just
much time that you’ve eaten a about sharing glorious mo-
lot of salt together. You have ments together. Friendship is
done some great and memo- also the capacity to share em-
rable things with that person, barrassment with each oth-
but you’ve also done nothing er. Friendship says that I will
at all. You have simply hung continue to claim this person
out, bided time, chewed the as friend even when he has
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messed up, and even when But that suffering becomes

she has let me down. And holy when it is shared.
when I have let them down.
One of the most delight-
ful things a child ever calls a
parent is “friend.” “She used
to be my mother,” a woman
once told me, “but now she’s
my friend.” In fact, we have
all heard sons and daughters
alike call their mother or fa-
ther their best friend.
It may be the best thing we
could ever call our parent:
“Friend.” But it comes in a
mature stage, a stage that oc-
curs after the strained years of
childhood and adolescence,
when both children and par-
Ruins of Rievaulx Abbey, ents are learning how to grow
York, England up. After that maturity, an
Photo: Public Domain
amazing glow settles on par-
A friend is someone who con- ent and child. It is the glow of
tinues to walk with you, con- friendship, a glow seasoned
tinues to journey with you, with time and love.
continues as a companion
with you until you both know During the months of quar-
that your journey is holy, un- antine, isolation, and social
touched, sanctified by God. A distance, a lot of parents and
friend is someone you can be children have spent more
so truthful with, that it hurts. time than usual together. It
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has been concentrated time,

packed time, close time. Frus-
trating time, too. I bet a lot of
salt has been spilled, together.
Oh my, I pray that your par-

ents and children have be-
come better friends during
this tight and frustrating Finally, of course, it is God
time. Yes, I bet we’ve spilled a who wants our friendship,
lot of things together during just as Jesus called his dis-
this pandemic.. ciples “friends” towards the
end of his life. God wants to
On the feast day of St. Aelred, hang out with us for a long
who said “God is Friendship,” time, for so long that we have
I pray that our spilled salt spilled a lot of salt together.
together has made us better I do not mean a Facebook
friends together. And I dare “friend,” which title seems to
pray that we have known God be designated with a mere,
better, through that love, that quick, click of a computer key.
friendship. Friendship, true friendship,
takes much longer than that.
I am so glad that I can call God wants the sort of friend-
both my daughters, and my ship that takes a lot of spilled
son, my friends. And I hope salt together. Like parents and
that they consider my wife children. Like families. God is
and me as their friends, too. friendship.
Parents and children can be
the best friends in the world. From The Cathedral Times, the
They can be the ways that God weekly newsletter of the Cathedral
pours love into the world. of St. Philip, Atlanta
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CLASSIC FRIENDSHIP Friendship is like our

Guardian Angel
Douglas Raymond Rose Fanning life’s disasters into
Member, Academy of
American Poets Hope –
If success fails to crown our
Tis’ the sweetest word ever efforts
tasted – It holds out Hope like a
On bare tongues of mice and robust rope.
men
Gentle as the silken dew of Friends remain in sunshine
heaven or shadow
Glistening like bright stars Radiant as the glorious
God sends. diadem —
That God the Father will
Friendship is the guiding bestow on us
beacon — When in heaven we reign
The smile upon our with Him.
lamenting lips
It stills the storms of tedious
trials
— Leading us a safe harbor
trip.
Wealth may crumble like

tired towers
But Friendship remains like
love’s lake;
It shrouds the mantle of
forgiveness
Over the graves of our
mistakes. Photo: Public domain
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HERSTORY: CHURCH that rolling bandages hurt her

WOMEN MAKING fingers.
A DIFFERENCE
During World War I, in Febru-
Ann Smith ary 1918, the Omaha chapter
of the Red Cross sent 30,560
bandages, 7000 sweaters, and
5000 pairs of socks overseas.
It was its largest shipment of
bandages and knitting, and
was made possible by church
women.
During World War II, first

lady Eleanor Roosevelt was
Ann Smith
There is a long “herstory”

of church women taking an
active role in helping when
needed. During the Civil War,
church women in both the
South and the North made
bandages from whatever ma-
terials were available. In the
movie “Gone with the Wind,” Eleanor Roosevelt knitting
Scarlett O’Hara complains for the war effort.
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often photographed knitting need your help. 27,000 farm-

for the war effort, or at least workers and thousands of
carrying her voluminous others are without protection
knitting bag. She effectively or treatment. They need face-
launched the World War II masks, so please get out your
knitting effort at a Knit for sewing machines and tell oth-
Defense tea held at the Wal- ers!
dorf-Astoria in New York
City on 31 September 1941. Companion chapters from
both the north and the south
The herstory of Episco- answered the call to help. In
pal Church women helping Naples, Florida—located just
during war and other times of miles from Immokalee—the
crisis continues today with the church women of Saint Mon-
sewing of facemasks. Many ica’s Episcopal Church heard
chapters of the Society of the call and armed their sew-
the Companions of the Holy ing machines. I wrote the
Cross heard the need for face- prayer that appears below,
masks in Immokalee, Flor- and the Companions sent
ida. Without protection or it—in both English and Span-
treatment, tens of thousands ish—to all chapters to accom-
of farmworkers and others pany each face mask.
were at risk of contracting
the coronavirus. The Rev’d Almighty God, Creator of
Ema Rosero-Nordalm, Social all life: We praise you and
Justice Representative of the thank you for your love and
Episcopal Church Women protection. Open our ears to
National Board, and I put out hear from medical experts
the call: the grandmothers, how to keep our families safe
mothers, and children of the from the deadly Coronavirus.
town of Immokalee, Florida, Soothe our fears and make us
gathering telling
strong during the crisis. Help ICE CREAM,

us to be your disciples in car- ANYONE?
ing for ourselves, our families,
and the people of Immokalee. Cary Harriger
St. Paul on the Plains
In the name of Jesus Christ, Lubbock, Texas
we pray. Amen.
Someone stopped me in the
hall the other day and said, “I
need you to write a short sto-
ry for the newsletter.” I asked,
“How short?” “Really short,”
was the reply. “Any particu-
lar topic?” I asked. “Maybe
something humorous on our
current predicament with
Covid,” was the answer. Short
and humorous, with a touch
of killer virus. I thought,
“How hard could it be? I’ll get
Ann is the former National right on it.”
Director of Women in Mission
and Ministry and a Compan- Over the years I have en-
ion of the Society of the Com- tertained thoughts about
panions of the Holy Cross. the worst case scenarios for
Ann’s article appeared origi- mankind. What would be
nally in Communique Maga- the worst thing that could
zine’s Summer 2020 edition. happen? What event would I
Communique is a quarterly dread the most? Nuclear inva-
online publication by the Na- sion by a foreign enemy? Mas-
tional Episcopal Church Wom- sive earthquakes? Volcanic
en. eruptions? Tsunamis off every
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coast? A comet? The collapse or the gas pump handle? Did I

of all agriculture? The end of just hear someone sneeze? Do
soft ice cream??? How about I need a hazmat suit to go get
total economic collapse? a dozen eggs? Who touched
the egg carton before me? I’m
going to need a tub of Clorox
wipes hanging from a rope
around my neck…and on and
on it goes.
A worldwide industry has

sprung up in the manufactur-
ing of face masks: solid colors,
patterns, artsy theme masks—
no doubt somewhere there
are even Hello Kitty masks. I,
however, prefer black. It goes
with everything.
You also have shortages of

Photo: Public Domain products few people had ever
paid attention to: antibacteri-
It turns out I wasted years of al/antiviral wipes, gloves, toi-
worry about an end I could let paper. If I had stockpiled a
see coming, and prepare for warehouse full of any one of
to some small degree. This the above, I could sell out and
real enemy is so small and retire.
pervasive that I have no way
of knowing where it lurks. It’s all so depressing. I think
Who touched that keypad, or my answer to this dilemma is
that can of beans on the shelf, that we all mask up, get in our
gathering telling
cars (that get three weeks to THE PANDEMIC’S

the gallon) and go in search of POTENTIAL AS AN
some soft ice cream. A small IMPETUS FOR
chocolate cone would be RELIGIOUS REVIVAL
proof that the world still has
a chance of beating this thing. The Rev’d Richard R. Losch
St. James’ Church
Livingston, Alabama
Yogi Berra said, “It ain’t over

til it’s over.” So it is with the
coronavirus crisis. It isn’t over
yet, and from all we can tell it
will never really be over, be-
cause things will never return
the way they were before it
began. It is the same with any
major event in human history.
Photo: Public Domain Be it good or bad, any event
important enough to grab the
world’s attention will leave a
vvv permanent mark on society
The ability to speak several and civilization. This raises
languages is a valuable asset, an important question: do
but the ability to keep your we really want to go back to
mouth shut in any language is what we were, or do we want
priceless. Anonymous to learn from our experiences
and move forward with new
vvv knowledge and new skills? In
the TV series “I, Claudius” a
retired actor complains, “The
theater is not what it was,”
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to which a Greek orator re- rebound, jobs restored, and

plies, “No, and I will tell you businesses reopened. This cri-
something else. It never was sis has brought out the worst
what it was.” When we look in some, who have exploited
back on the “good old days” it for power or personal gain;
we tend to remember only yet it has brought out the best
the good things, many of in far more people. We have
which have been lost and are seen countless examples of
now exaggerated. We forget generosity, compassion, and
about or minimize the bad self-sacrifice that are an inspi-
things, many of which may ration to many.
still be with us. As we move
out of the coronavirus crisis, One thing I do not want to
we want to see the economy return to is the increasing
religious apathy and mor-
al indifference of the recent
past. Before the crisis began,
there were some stirrings of
a religious revival in Amer-
ica – not a Bible-thumping,
hymn-singing revival, but
a true renewal of faith that
comes from a thirst for the
dignity of tradition, and the
recognition of the need for
Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra God’s help in a chaotic and
(12 May 1925 – 22 September divided world. The crisis has
2015) was an American profes- hastened and strengthened
sional baseball catcher, who lat- that awakening, and if it con-
er took on the roles of manager tinues to grow then things
and coach. (Wikipedia) will indeed not be the same
gathering telling
when the crisis has passed. TRINITY AND CREED

They will be much, much bet- (III)
ter. Sociologists, even nonbe-
lieving ones, affirm that one Fr. Dunbar’s Trinity and Creed
of the most important foun- is a four part series. Parts I and
dations of a moral and stable II appeared in TAD Summer
society is religious belief. and Fall 2021, now available
in our online archives.
Pray for a renewal of faith in The Rev’d Gavin Dunbar
our country and in the world. Rector, St. John’s Church,
Savannah, GA and President of
It is not just a dream; it is a the Prayer Book Society USA
clear and reasonable hope, if
only we will work for it. The Athanasian Creed was
written in the south of Gaul in
vvv the late 5th century, at a time
when Gallic Christians who
held the Catholic doctrine of
the Trinity were under pres-
sure to conform to the Arian
teaching of the Visigothic rul-
ers of Roman Gaul. The Ari-
ans taught the subordination
of Son and Spirit to the Father,
as divine beings of different
and inferior substance from
the Creator, and this explains
the insistence of the Athana-
sian Creed on holding fast
the fundamental doctrine of
Athanasius – that the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Ghost
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meaning here. The Trinity is

not a committee.) The answer
lies in the relations of the per-
sons to one another, in virtue
of each person’s mode of or-
igin:
A. Mazutyte 2009 21 The Father is made of

Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons none, / nor created, nor
begotten.
are of one and the same divine
22 The Son is of the Father
substance, essence, or nature.
alone; / not made, nor
Scripture teaches that only the
created, but begotten.
Creator is worthy of worship,
23 The Holy Ghost is of the
and only the Creator can be
the Savior of all creatures. If Father and the Son; / not
made, nor created, nor
the Son and Spirit are not one
begotten, but proceeding.
in being and substance with
the Creator, then there is no
salvation in them, and they All that is true of the Father,
are not worthy to be wor- as a Father he shares with his
Son – that is what makes him
shipped with divine honors.
Father. All that is true of the
Yet if the substance and attri- Father, therefore, is also true
butes of the Father, the Son, of the Son – but as the Son,
and the Spirit are identical, who receives his being by fil-
what distinguishes them from iation, not as the one who
one another as “persons?” gives it by paternity. Likewise,
(When speaking of human all that the Father and the Son
beings, we use the word “per- are, they share with the Spirit.
son” to mean a “separate in- So whatever is true of the Fa-
dividual,” but that is not the ther and of the Son is true of
gathering telling
the Spirit also – but not as Fa- Just in case this distinction of
ther or as Son, but as the Spirit persons might seem to pro-
who proceeds from the Father vide room for the Arian idea
and from the Son. It is in their that the Son and Spirit have
relations with one another an inferior form of divine
that they are distinguished as substance, the next clauses
persons. affirm that the differences of
relation within the one divine
24 There is therefore one substance do not make for
Father, not three Fathers; any difference of duration or
one Son, not three Sons; inequality:
/ one Holy Ghost, not
three Holy Ghosts. 25 And in this Trinity there is
no before or after, / no
greater or less;
26 But all three Persons are
co-eternal together, / and
co-equal.
The conclusion is both theo-
retical and practical, we must
hold to the Trinity in worship
and in thought:
27 So that in all ways, as is
aforesaid, / both the
Trinity is to be worshipped
in Unity, and the Unity in
Trinity.
28 He therefore that would be
Jose de Ribera 1635-1636 saved, / let him thus think
Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons of the Trinity.
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as the “double procession” or

filioque (“from the Son”). The
eastern church prefers the for-
mula that the Spirit proceeds
from the Father through the
Son, but in Augustine’s influ-
ential view, though the Father
is the primordial source of the
Spirit, in relation to the Holy
Spirit the Father and the Son
form a single principle. As
Augustine said, “as the Father
The Holy Trinity has in himself that the Holy
Etching by Remoldus Spirit should proceed from
Eynhoudts (1613 - 1680) him, so has he given to the
Public domain Son that the same Holy Spir-
it should proceed from him”
(De Trinitate xv.48).
This doctrine, that each per-
son in the Godhead stands in In the context of the extended
unique relation to each of the struggles against Arianism in
others in virtue of his mode the western church, the dou-
of origin, and that this rela- ble procession was a welcome
tion constitutes them as dis- confirmation of the co-equali-
tinct persons, is the doctrine ty and consubstantiality of the
of catholic orthodoxy in the Son with the Father. It is also
east and west. What is dis- grounded in the Scriptures’
tinctive to the western church testimony, which describe
is the teaching that the Spirit the Holy Spirit as the Spirit
proceeds from the Father and of the Father, and of the Son.
from the Son, an idea known The Spirit “which proceedeth
gathering telling
from the Father,” says Jesus, THE MAN ON

is also the Comforter “whom THE BOX
I will send unto you from the
Father,” and he “shall testify Linda Lacy
Illustrated by Susie Larcomb
of me” (John 15:26). “He shall Hazel
glorify me: for he shall receive
of mine, and shall shew it “Repent! or die in your sins!”
unto you” (16:14). The Spirit he shouted. The man was
who is sent in time by the Son standing on a box, shaking his
from the Father is the Spir- Bible at the crowd, stretching
it who from all eternity pro- his tall frame to loom ever
ceeds from the Son and from larger above the cynics before
the Father, and is the bond of him. “The Lord sees what you
their mutual love. do in the dark of the night, in
the bars, in your homes, on
Part IV of
the streets,” he continued, his
Trinity and Creed will be
eyes spitting contempt and
in the Spring Issue of TAD.
self-righteousness out to the
vvv people watching the crazy
Christian. “Fall on your knees
“Don’t educate your children now and repent of your evil
to be rich. Educate them to ways!” His body shook with
be happy so when they grow a dark energy that possessed
up, they will know the value him, pushing him onward
of things, not the price.” even as the people shook their
– George Goldtrap heads, sneered, and mean-
Ormand-by-the-Sea, FL dered away. This was only
vvv further proof to him that they
“When anger enters the mind, didn’t want to hear the truth;
wisdom departs.” they were “lost in their sins
– Thomas á Kempis forever.”
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“Turn to the Lord and sin no

more.” Most people walked
past him as if he were invisible,
while some stared in derision,
and a few told him where he
could shove it. I sat on a park
bench, watching to see how
this would all play out. His
anger held a steady momen-
tum; he shook the book in his
hand as if he were wielding a
baton on the people’s heads,
whacking them like children
called to the principal’s office.
A group of teenage boys stood
in front of him, imitating him,
mocking his every word, until
they doubled over with laugh-
ter. Eventually, tired of the
game, the boys moved on, but
the man on the box shouted
louder and stronger.
From a distance, I watched the
tall man scream at the disin- After two hours of his rhet-
terested people. His too-long oric, the man stepped down
crewcut danced and bobbed from his box, picked up his
as he bounced up and down belongings, and made his way
on his heels. He was thin, old- to the bench where I was sit-
er, wearing a worn-out poly- ting. He carefully arranged
ester suit, shoes shined and a his placard, box, and Bible to
placard at his feet that read, the left of him, and sat down
gathering telling
next to me. I waited to see if head into place and looked

he would try to convert me, over at him. He had opened
but he said not a word. He his eyes and I could see that
sat there in a trance, sitting he was much older than I
straight and tall, eyes fixed on had thought. Wrinkles and a
an object not in this world. dullness in his gaze revealed
Then he closed his eyes; his an underlying sadness. He
body was tense, like a me- looked down at his lap, seem-
chanical piece stuck in gear. ingly unaware of the gorgeous
day around him. He released
As my fellow human sat stiff- the metal gear that had held
ly next to me, I relaxed. I him rigid and his body soft-
stretched my jean-clad legs ened. He was real now, anoth-
out in front of me. Glancing er human being versus that
at my tennis shoes, I noticed hatred-spewing machine on
they were finally how I want- the street corner. I felt sorry
ed them to be – broken in and for him.
dirty. It was a sunny day in
early spring and I could final-
ly go outside without a jacket.
I propped my elbows on the
back of the bench and tipped
my head back to soak in the
sun. What a sight we must
have been, the dude sprawl-
ing in the sun beside the suit “Hey, I heard your preaching,”
sitting stiffly upright. I said. He looked my way with
The sun’s rays warmed my face a curious gaze, almost sur-
and created swirling patterns prised and unable to respond.
beneath my eyelids. The man “Yes, I preach God’s word,”
next to me stirred. I raised my he said in a sigh, “God’s holy
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word.” He picked up his Bible waited a minute and then be-

and ran his hand over it like a gan, “I was an alcoholic once.
precious jewel, then with both I lost my home, my wife and
arms held it close to his chest. kids, my job – I lost it all be-
cause of the liquor. For a long
I sat up, leaned over and rest- time I went from job to job,
ed my arms on my knees, ran hanging out at the bars….
my fingers through my hair and the ladies. I was a mess.”
and took in a deep breath. The man stopped, breathed
“You know, you’re putting up in deeply, remembering the
fences when you should be good old bad old days. “About
trying to build paths.” a year ago, I had a neighbor
The man looked over at me that kept nagging me to go to
with a quizzical expression, church with him, and finally, I
and then, as if he got the met- went once just to shut him up.
aphor, he put up his defensive Well, it was alright, so I kept
wall. “The Lord has called me going, you know, maybe once
to bring others to the king- or twice a month. It made
dom, to deliver them from me feel better after a week of
their sin. They must turn from drinking. Eventually, I was
their wicked ways.” I saw a going every Sunday, even
flicker of the flame back in his though I didn’t understand
eyes, a wave of the preaching everything they said.”
madness flow across his face.
Across from us there was an-
“So,” I asked, “how did you other bench in the sun where
come to know this God of two women sat. At first they
yours?” were talking to each other, but
He threw his head straight now they were listening to the
ahead, looked down ner- man’s story. They pretended
vously and then up again. He not to be obvious, and I want-
gathering telling
ed him to continue. I prodded my shirt and drug me down

him, “So, is that all there is to to that altar and put me on
it? Just going to church every my knees. It was a super-hu-
Sunday?” man force, but it wasn’t bad, it
was good, pure love. I wanted
He seemed to pop out of his to let God in, I had just been
reverie and, for the first time, too chicken to actually do it.
I saw a slight smile emerge I don’t know if it’s like this
from the man, “Oh no,” he for everybody, but I felt free.
laughed lightly, “no, no, no. All the bad junk in my heart
After a while, I figured out was gone and I didn’t feel like
that I had to believe that Je- I was carrying that huge load
sus is God’s Son and that he of guilt anymore. It was like
died for us. That’s for starters. a fresh start.” The man was
Then, I had to pray to ask God glowing now, totally relaxed,
into my heart and life and he looked much younger and
then get baptized. That’s what softer. He was real. The teen-
they taught me at the church.” agers behind me were silent,
He took another deep breath, the women on the bench were
loosened up and stretched a silent, the air around us was
little. The women were listen- silent and pure.
ing intently to this odd spiri-
“So, what changed?” I asked.
tual conversation. In fact, out
of the corner of my eye I could Again with the quizzical stare
see a couple of teenagers on before, continuing, “After that
the grass behind us, and they day in church I became a Bi-
too were quiet and listening. ble maniac. I read the Bible
He continued, “Well, one day from cover to cover and start-
at church I was singing the ed memorizing scriptures and
last song, and I kid you not, it talking to people about God.
was like a giant hand grabbed It was like I got a brand-new
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gift and I had to show it to tween you and them and they
everyone.” He smiled a genu- won’t listen. Your life story
ine smile and stared into the is a path – even now people
sky, enjoying the memories, are listening.” The two wom-
but then a cloud covered the en looked down at their laps
sun and his smile regressed. and the teens behind us were
Something shifted. “I started deathly quiet. The sun was
to see the sin in the world, moving across the sky and
all the horrible things that the shade covered us now. We
people do to each other and all sat in silence for a while,
to themselves.” He shook his waiting for revelation, con-
head sadly, and then as if reas- firmation, a voice from heav-
suring himself of his preach- en maybe. The man finally
ing style, I could see him looked up and out. He looked
revving up for the end of the over at the ladies on the bench
story. “That is why everyone and smiled shyly; he twisted
must turn from their sins and around to take a look at the
repent.” boys behind us on the grass.
The women became visibly “I’ll think about what you

tense and I heard a slight said,” the man declared as he
snicker from behind the park stood up. He grabbed his box
bench. “So are you building and his Bible, said a quick
fences or paths?” I asked. He good-bye and walked slowly
wouldn’t, or couldn’t, answer away. The two ladies and teen-
me. The man only looked sad- agers all got up and left. I was
ly down at his lap, so I went starting to shiver in the shade,
on, “What I mean is, people so I began to walk and wonder
don’t respond to being yelled if I would ever see the man on
at and told what to do; it’s like the box again. I walked past
you’re putting up a fence be- the five gallon plastic bucket
gathering telling
drum player, the row of street

people on the sidewalk with
their assortment of dogs, and
gave a couple of panhandlers
a dollar. I watched the wealthy
walk by swinging their Macy’s
and Nordstrom bags and the
tourists take pictures of the
artwork and the water foun-
tains. Life is good. God is
good.
A week later I saw the man
on the box. He was on the op- Susie “Larcomb” Hazel is pri-
posite corner this time. His marily a painter, & decora-
too-long crew cut danced and tor from Sarasota, Fl. She has
bobbed as he was telling a sto- worked in the areas of portrai-
ry to a small attentive crowd. ture & landscape, decorative
He was sitting on his box. painting, furniture design &
interior design. She specializes
Linda Lacy is a short story
in commission and collabora-
writer from Salem, Oregon.
tive work and feels her degrees
She has worked at a home-
in sociology & psychology have
less shelter and now a men’s
helped her reach a more inti-
prison for many years. Her
mate understanding and rela-
writing mirrors these career
tionship with her clients.
paths. Linda is a permaculture
enthusiast, simplicity activist, She has worked locally as well
and loves a good story. Her as up and down the East coast
work has been published in from Bangor to Palm Beach.
Heart of Flesh Literary Journal
and Imperfect Women.
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WEDDING NUPTIALS
Barry Bradshaigh, Lancashire, England
From pledges’ concord true souls be married,
When false impediments confounded be,
Where love’s token rings in honour carried,
Emblazon those bound in eternity.
So two star’d lovers kiss at eyes’ ascent,
Made ardent by their love for each other,
Which flows at goblets’ raise to now augment,
A revelry of Belles with Beau’s cover.
What fair surpassing fair can excel this,
This loving scene of possessing gladness,
This summer fete made summer by love’s bliss,
This lover’s knot held tight in happiness.
Thus by hearts’ giving and receiving oath,
Is love sworn won and sworn is love to both!
Wedding of Shelby and Michael Thomas

28 September 2019
Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church, Charlotte, North Carolina
gathering telling
NECROLOGY
The Rev’d Forrest Ander- ishes in Massachusetts.
son, 82, on 11 June 2021 in
Fayetteville, AR, served par- The Rev’d Dr. Allie Wash-
ishes in Camden, AR, Kilgore, ington Frazier, Jr., 90, in
TX, Clearwater, FL, and An- Charlottesville, VA, 15 May
derson, S.C., and as a hospi- 2021, served parishes in Vir-
tal chaplain in New Braunfels ginia and Georgia.
and San Antonio, TX.
The Rev’d Beverly Kay
The Rev’d Charles Alex- Hill Weatherly, 71, in Alexan-
ander Deacon, JR, 89, on 30 dria, VA, 28 May 2021, served
May 2021 in Amherst, NY. parishes in Brasilia, Brazil,
North Carolina, Connecticut,
The Rev’d Barry Ellis Virginia, and Maryland.
Verdi, 84 on 6 June 2021 in
Sylmar, CA. The Rev’d Robert Nelson
Huffman, 89, on 25 July 2021
The Rt. Rev’d Robert in Wilmington, NC, served
Campbell Witcher, 95, on 14 parishes in Florida and Vir-
June 2021 in Baton Rouge, ginia.
LA, served as VI Bishop of
Long Island, NY. The Rev’d James Fredrick
Marquis, Jr, 91, on 19 July
The Rev’d Roger William 2021, in Memphis, TN, served
Wootton, 96, on 3 June 2021 parishes in Tennessee.
in Peabody, MA, served par-
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