tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post4115275850421198127..comments2024-03-27T17:29:51.954+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Offering a BlessingFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-24405738230007083342009-06-22T13:59:20.540+01:002009-06-22T13:59:20.540+01:00The solution is found in sending all but the Faith...The solution is found in sending all but the Faithful from the Church after the Sermon. Church doors are open far too wide and far too long. <br /><br />The early Church had it right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-3686568548445120932009-06-21T15:00:58.178+01:002009-06-21T15:00:58.178+01:00...I am far too unholy to be capable of bi-locatin......I am far too unholy to be capable of bi-locating, too unholy, I would have thought, even to be able to bi-locute...Fr.Ogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05636269542725603258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-84884354187969536362009-06-20T20:00:55.862+01:002009-06-20T20:00:55.862+01:00All part and parcel, surely, of the whimsy 'ca...All part and parcel, surely, of the whimsy 'call-me-Dave/Bill/Bob/ktl' tendency of the present Episcopate; the 'we're-so-cuddly-everyone-MUST-like-us' front that masks a harsh and steely ruthlessness. Plus, of course, the now almost-obligatory Dissenter-friendly phraseology - the Methodist Pension-scheme being so much better-funded than the C.of E.'s - that fills the Fr.Ogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05636269542725603258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-85009928916245927932009-06-20T20:00:09.988+01:002009-06-20T20:00:09.988+01:00All part and parcel, surely, of the whimsy 'ca...All part and parcel, surely, of the whimsy 'call-me-Dave/Bill/Bob/ktl' tendency of the present Episcopate; the 'we're-so-cuddly-everyone-MUST-like-us' front that masks a harsh and steely ruthlessness. Plus, of course, the now almost-obligatory Dissenter-friendly phraseology - the Methodist Pension-scheme being so much better-funded than the C.of E.'s - that fills the Fr.Ogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05636269542725603258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-65482500409561797892009-06-20T18:52:26.776+01:002009-06-20T18:52:26.776+01:00Or, even worse, the priests who refuse to bless in...Or, even worse, the priests who refuse to bless in the second person at all.<br /><br />I think Canon Lloyd has a point that those of us who appreciate Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament tend to reserve the word benediction for it, and not use it for other blessings.<br /><br />If anyone in the confessional is "giving" confessions, it's surely the penitent, while the priest hears Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15967143115506520306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-78026788401632074962009-06-20T17:07:41.450+01:002009-06-20T17:07:41.450+01:00I think that this is related to those Bishops that...I think that this is related to those Bishops that I know who insist on saying, "MAY God the Father, God the Son,... thereby avoiding the simple decclaration that God, through the Bishop's ministry is blessing the congregation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-26533081154420975012009-06-20T15:06:17.868+01:002009-06-20T15:06:17.868+01:00It's simply the phrase "benediction"...It's simply the phrase "benediction" but not signifying the service called "Benediction [Of The Blessed Sacrament]" that rises your heckles Father! <br /><br />...[musing]... I have been asked to "give a blessing" but only recollect being asked to "offer a blessing" when invited to say Grace before a meal...?!Canon Jerome Lloyd OSJVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18313500751303898720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-20746949094077676922009-06-20T14:48:49.450+01:002009-06-20T14:48:49.450+01:00Odd, isn't it? I've never come across '...Odd, isn't it? I've never come across 'offering' a blessing, myself. But I have been asked to 'give' a Mass or 'give' confessions. Being asked to 'offer' a Mass is of course perfectly correct, and to 'give' a blessing, too. If only we could swap people's vocabulary around.Pastor in Montehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05949810648656544072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-91480522682565699812009-06-20T13:45:25.271+01:002009-06-20T13:45:25.271+01:00I think that the business of "offering a bene...I think that the business of "offering a benediction" probably derives from a Protestant view of blessings as prayers. Rather than say forthrightly that the Bishop blesses the congregation, he offers it as he might offer any other prayer, asking God to bless them. In other words, I think the offer is being made to God, not the congregation.The Religious PĂcarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03620636294081499041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-47485875229883741242009-06-20T11:51:22.248+01:002009-06-20T11:51:22.248+01:00Long time reader, first time comment-er...
Surely...Long time reader, first time comment-er...<br /><br />Surely in the ordination service the ordinand demonstrates that he accepts the "offer" of the priesthood? He makes the responses to the bishop's questions and submits to kneeling down and having hands laid on him, receiving the oil and the instruments, etc. <br /><br />If he ran screaming from the church, while the bishop Countrey Parsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00943014621557442112noreply@blogger.com