tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post8839673839301125357..comments2024-03-27T17:29:51.954+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Palm ... or Olive ... Sunday? Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-27621493078146774272021-03-29T10:03:20.861+01:002021-03-29T10:03:20.861+01:00"S Cyril of Jerusalem (whom Gregory Dix once ..."S Cyril of Jerusalem (whom Gregory Dix once described as a 'very extreme' churchman) regarded its consecration as being analogous to the transsubstantiation of the Eucharistic Elements"<br /><br />Isn't the traditional Roman Pontifical just as 'extreme' when it directs the clergy to genuflect before the vessel of blessed oil and to say "Ave, Sanctum Chrisma&Pulexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13164993172745639593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-23677969430751235702021-03-29T05:33:06.857+01:002021-03-29T05:33:06.857+01:00Gratias ago tibi, sancte pater!Gratias ago tibi, sancte pater!Dr. Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02490187143300157804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-18486804726592600372021-03-28T21:15:02.799+01:002021-03-28T21:15:02.799+01:00@Dr. Butcher: an Anglican priest in America has a ...@Dr. Butcher: an Anglican priest in America has a helpful (though mildly anti-Roman) article:<br /><br />https://www.stevemacias.com/the-historic-case-for-paedocommunion-child-communion/<br /><br />He quotes St Augustine's Sermon 174,7 and comments:<br /><br />"Rome has under its faithful, tens of millions of members in uniate churches (Melkites, Ruthenians, Maronites, etc) that weekly frjustinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10109539584303934489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-27089864941380471432021-03-28T20:34:21.116+01:002021-03-28T20:34:21.116+01:00Do Abbots consecrate oils, or do they have to obta...Do Abbots consecrate oils, or do they have to obtain them from the local Bishop? Presumably all the Dean of Westminster's prerogatives in the coronation ceremonies are carried over from his Abbatial predecessors. Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15967143115506520306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-37329811019133038262021-03-28T15:03:00.237+01:002021-03-28T15:03:00.237+01:00An unrelated comment, Father, but one to which I h...An unrelated comment, Father, but one to which I hope you will respond in an upcoming post. What are your thoughts on paedocommunion? Was it practiced in the Anglican circles in which you moved? Can it be found at all in the Ordinariate--or could/should it be? I am a Ukrainian Greco-Catholic subdeacon and theologian; we are still restoring the practice in our Church, in keeping with our patrimonyDr. Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02490187143300157804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-53717707960866771182021-03-28T12:27:13.226+01:002021-03-28T12:27:13.226+01:00The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, the Malanka...The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, the Malankara Orthodox Church of India and the Malankara Syriac Catholic Church still incorporate the symbolic 12 in it's Consecration of Sacred Chrism. The Head of the Church (whether Catholicos or Patriarch) leads, with 12 bishops, flanked by 12 priests who assist, with 12 deacons. The most sacred moments are within a tent-like Canopy structure that Syrian Churchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05823632368613550371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-67609111464722301642020-04-08T03:57:18.859+01:002020-04-08T03:57:18.859+01:00The sense of the perhaps equivalence of the consec...The sense of the perhaps equivalence of the consecration of Chrism to the Eucharist is carried into the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy of Dionysius. He presents it in close connection to the altar, which the chrism, along with baptismal waters, empowers to be effective. Moreover, Dionysius' most explicit treatment of the cross (which many readers seem to the think he ignores) is tied to the chrism,LukeTognihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08699128657718518328noreply@blogger.com