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2008/12/31

The Circumcision of Christ [1 Jan]

[January 1]

ALMIGHTY God, who madest thy blessed Son to be circumcised, and obedient to the law for man; Grant us the true circumcision of the Spirit; that, our hearts, and all our members, being mortified from all worldly and carnal lusts, we may in all things obey thy blessed will; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Source: Sacramentary of Bishop Gregory of Rome [ca 600AD]. Circumcision was required eight days after birth. Some now call this day "The Holy Name". New Year's Day is of pagan origin, and this day was at a fast day as early as the 6th century. It is based on Romans ii. 29, Colossians iii. 5, and Titus ii. 12

Philippians ii. 9. St. Luke ii. 15
Homilies

"his name was called JESUS"

 

May God grant each of you a good health and a prosperous new year.



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2008/12/28

Holy Innocents [28 Dec]

 O ALMIGHTY God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast ordained strength, and madest infants to glorify thee by their deaths; Mortify and kill all vices in us, and so strengthen us by thy grace, that by the innocency of our lives, and constancy of our faith even unto death, we may glorify thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Revelation xiv. 1  Psalm LXXIX &   St. Matthew ii. 13
Homilies

Herod will seek the young child to destroy him

 
 

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First Sunday after Christmas

 

Homily of Chrysostom on Galatians iv
 

ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us thy only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure virgin; Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit ever, one God, world without end. Amen.

Galatians iv. 1, Psalm II, VIII | LXXXIX   &  St. Matthew i. 18

Homily of Chrysostom on Galatians iv

God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.


 
Commentary:
 
Chrysostom wrote of verses 4 and 5
 
"But when the fulness of the time came God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, under the Law that he might redeem them which were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."

Here he states two objects and effects of the Incarnation, deliverance from evil and supply of good, things which none could compass but Christ. They are these; deliverance from the curse of the Law, and promotion to sonship. Fitly does he say, that we might "receive," "[be paid,]" implying that it was due; for the promise was of old time made for these objects to Abraham, as the Apostle has himself shown at great length. And how does it appear that we have become sons? he has told us one mode, in that we have put on Christ who is the Son; and now he mentions another, in that we have received the Spirit of adoption.
 
We hear some speak in these latter times of regaining the "real" meaning of Christmas, amid all the commercialism and Santa Clause fantasy for the kids.  The  objects of the Incarnation, as Chrysostom points out, are the deliverance from the curse, and adoption into the family of God. So the next time someone asks what we are celebrating, remember these two.
 
Read the entire homily at the link above.
 
Filex dies Natitivitatis
 

 
 
 


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2008/12/26

John the Apostle and Evangelist [27 Dec]

MERCIFUL Lord, we beseech thee to cast thy bright beams of light upon thy Church, that it, being illumined by the doctrine of thy blessed Apostle and Evangelist Saint John, may so walk in the light of thy truth, that it may at length attain to life everlasting; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

1 St. John i. 1  Psalm XI &  St. John xxi. 19
Homily

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves



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St. Stephen - Deacon - Martyr [26 Dec]

GRANT, O Lord, that, in all our sufferings here upon earth for the testimony of thy truth, we may stedfastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and, being filled with the Holy Ghost, may learn to love and bless our persecutors by the example of thy first Martyr Saint Stephen, who prayed for his murderers to thee, O blessed Jesus, who standest at the right hand of God to succour all those who suffer for thee. our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

Acts vii. 52   &   St. Matthew xxiii. 34.
Homilies


Behold, I see the heavens opened,
and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God




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2008/12/25

Christmas Day MMVIII

 

 Christmas Day
[December 25]

ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us thy only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure virgin; Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit ever, one God, world without end. Amen.

 

Hebrews i. 1   Psalm XCVIII   &  St. John i. 1
Homilies

Jesus is the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world


Comment from Primus Pilus

Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I pray that this message finds you in good cheer - and in celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior.

The Christmas story is centered on family, the family of God joined with the family of man through the miracle of the Nativity of Jesus the Christ. As the opening prayer says, God gave his Son to take on our human nature, and through faith in him we are born again into a new being with that spark of the divine alive in our hearts and souls. We are born again as Christ's own, and adopted into the family of God through the promise of our Lord. [Gal iv 4-5]

Jesus is "Immanuel", "God with us". Jesus, begotten of his Father before the foundations of the world, did not abhor the Virgin's womb, but rather humbled himself to be born of Mary, the God Bearer. At his Nativity, he was perfect both in deity and humanity, actually God and actually Man with a rational soul and body, being co-substantial with the Father in his divinity, and with us in his humanity. He was born of two natures, not confused, mixed, or divided; but in perfect union. Jesus the Christ is the one and only-begotten Word of God. He is the first-fruits of a new creation. There is no other source of Salvation for the world. As we are joined with Christ, we are adopted into God's family. We celebrate this season with great festivity to proclaim the Good News: God has sent his only Son into the world as a light to lighten into the Gentiles and to be the glory of his people Israel.

One may ask, "How can this be? Well, it is because of what John testified in the first Chapter of his Gospel:


Jesus is the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

That little light that you, Christian Centurion, carry in your heart was born on Christmas morn. It enlightens you to God's will and guides you on the highway to heaven. It has been passed along from generation to generation through the true church of believers. Disciples have faithfully carried the Good News to the world, and they, who being foreordained before the foundations of the world; have heard, believed [Acts xiii. 48], and been born anew and anointed with the oil of gladness: even the Holy Ghost.

Let us set before our Father our praise and thanksgiving for his eternal gift and honor our Saviour with hymns, prayer, devotion, and meditation. Most appropriately on this feast-day, let us share with our families and friends good tidings of love and cheer.

"Glory to God in the Highest! and on earth peace to men of good will! "

felix dies Nativitatis !

ihsv

Mark



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2008/12/24

Eve of the Nativity

GOD, who makest us glad with the yearly remembrance of the birth of thine only Son Jesus Christ; Grant that as we joyfully receive him for our Redeemer, so we may with sure confidence behold him when he shall come to be our Judge, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

Source Sacramentary of Bishop Gregory of Rome [604 AD]. This Collect was used in the Roman liturgy on the Vigil of the Nativity.

Hebrews i. 1   &  St. Luke ii. 1

Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child


seasonal graphic


Homilies

Other Homilies for Christmas: Leo of Rome[ca 450] I, II, III, IV, VI, VII & VIII



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2008/12/20

Fourth Sunday in Advent


Augustine on Psalm XCIX
Advent Four Home

O LORD, raise up, we pray thee, thy power, and come among us, and with great might succour us; that whereas, through our sins and wickedness, we are sore let and hindered, thy bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be honour and glory, world without end. Amen.

ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.

Source: Bishop Gelasius of Rome Sacramentary [464 AD]. The 1662 edition added the "running the race that is before us" "Succor" is to run to help, while "sore let" is to thwart, hinder

Philippians iv. 4, Psalms 98, 99 | 101, 103   &  St. John i. 19.

Homily of Augustine on Psalm XCIX

Thou heardest them, O LORD our God;
thou forgavest them, O God, though thou didst punish their wicked doings.




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         Gilbert West and his friend, Lord Lyttleton, both men of acknowledged talents, had imbibed the principles of infidelity from a superficial view of the Scriptures. Fully persuaded that the Bible was an imposture, they were determined to expose [it]. Mr. West chose the Resurrection of Christ, and Lord Lyttleton the conversion of St Paul, for the subject of hostile criticism. Both sat down to their respective tasks full of prejudice and a contempt for Christianity. The results of their separate endeavours was that they were both converted by their attempts to overthrow the truth of Christianity! They came together, not as they had expected, to exult over an imposture exposed to ridicule, but to lament their folly and congratulate each other on their joint conviction, that the Bible was the word of God. Their able enquiries have furnished two most valuable treatises in favour of revelation -- one, entitled "Observations on the Conversion of St Paul", and the other, "Observations on the Resurrection of Christ."
         ... Charles H. Spurgeon, Commenting and Commentaries 
 
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Today we feature Augustine on Psalm 99, and our selected verse reads:
 
Thou heardest them, O LORD our God;
thou forgavest them, O God, though thou didst punish their wicked doings.
 
 I wonder if this is not a truth that is often overlooked by the Church today. God forgives, for the sake of Christ he blots out the sin from his judgement on the last day, but as a loving Father he will correct, and will not forestall the consequences that often follow foolish and sinful deeds. We need look no further than King David and his affair to understand this truth. The man after God's own heart lost his son, and suffered the consequences of his deed through a broken family in his remaining days.
 
Augustine wrote:
 
"They kept His testimonies, and the law that He gave them."..."Thou heardest them," he saith, "O Lord our God: Thou wast forgiving to them, O God" (ver. 8). God is not said to be forgiving toward anything but sins: when He pardoneth sins, then He forgiveth. And what had He in them to punish, so that He was forgiving in pardoning them? He was forgiving in pardoning their sins, He was also forgiving in punishing them. For what followeth? "And punishedst all their own affections." Even in punishing them Thou wast forgiving toward them: for not in remitting, but also in punishing their sins, hast Thou been forgiving. Consider, my brethren, what he hath taught us here: attend. God is angry with him whom, when he sinneth, He scourgeth not: for unto him to whom He is truly forgiving, He not only remitteth sins, that they may not injure him in a future life; but also chasteneth him, that he delight not in continual sin.
 
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2008/12/13

The Third Sunday in Advent

The Third Sunday in Advent
Augustine on Psalm LIII
Advent Three Home

LORD, we beseech thee, give ear to our prayers, and by thy gracious visitation lighten the darkness of our heart, by our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen

ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.

Source: Middle Ages.

Psalms 52, 53 | 93, 94 , 1 Corinthians iv. 1   &  St. Matthew xi. 2

Homily of Augustine on Psalm LIII

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.





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Suffering and diminishment are not the greatest of evils but are normal ingredients in life, especially in old age. They are to be expected as elements of a full human existence. Well into my 90th year I have been able to work productively. As I become increasingly paralyzed and unable to speak, I can identify with the many paralytics and mute persons in the Gospels, grateful for the loving and skillful care I receive and for the hope of everlasting life in Christ. If the Lord now calls me to a period of weakness, I know well that his power can be made perfect in infirmity. "Blessed be the name of the Lord!"[5]

 
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Archbishop of Canterbury and the new North American Anglican Province.. he does not make or unmake Anglicans.. Amen
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/18602/
 
Cardinal Avery Dulles passes away at age of 90.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery_Dulles
 

 
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The news article on Rowan Williams, who met with Anglican primates from the Southern Cone is telling. The new North America Anglican Province under Bishop Duncan (formally under the Episcopal Church) formed last week to provide an orthodox Anglican church in America that is in communion with the majority of other Anglicans worldwide. In reading of his response that he would neither block or bless the church, I was reminded of Gamaliel, who warned the Sanhedrin to leave the disciples be, for they might be fighting against God (Acts v. 3)
 
The featured psalm for this Sunday is Psalm 53. It opens with the line:
 
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
 
There was a time in my life when this verse pertained to me. It took my little girl, a humble chapel with a Centurion as its main window and two faithful chaplains, and the power of the Holy Ghost to move my heart from its foolish assertion into submission and obedience to God and his Son Jesus Christ.  Well, I am not proud of those foolish days, but I know that it matters not what we were, but what we have become through Christ. I take some comfort in knowing that Cardinal Avery Dulles, who was raised a Presbyterian,  and was agnostic by the time he entered Harvard, found God too, and his place of service a Jesuit,  a leading Roman theologian of our times and the only Roman cleric to be elevated to Cardinal (see link above). Lieutenant Dulles was a centurion - a US Naval Officer! He served as liasion with the French Navy in WWII and was awared the Croix de Guere. I hope to add his name and a commemoration page to our calendar of saints in the days to come.
 
Augustine writes of this verse in his homily:
 
"The unwise man hath said in his heart, There is no God" (ver. 1). Such sort is it of men amid whom is pained and groaneth the Body of Christ. If such is this sort of men, of not many do we travail; as far as seemeth to occur to our thoughts, very few there are; and a difficult thing it is to meet with a man that saith in his heart, "There is no God;" nevertheless, so few there are, that, fearing amid the many to say this, in their heart they say it, for that with mouth to say it they dare not. Not much then is that which we are bid to endure, hardly is it found: uncommon is that sort of men that say in their heart, "There is no God." But, if it be examined in another sense, is not that found to be in more men, which we supposed to be in men few and uncommon, and almost in none? Let them come forth into the midst that live evil lives, let us look into the doings of profligate, daring, and wicked men, of whom there is a great multitude; who foster day by day their sins, who, their acts having been changed into habit, have even lost sense of shame: this is so great a multitude of men, that the Body of Christ, set amid them, scarce dareth to censure that which it is not constrained to commit, and deemeth it a great matter for itself that the integrity of innocence be preserved in not doing that which now, by habit, either it doth not dare to blame, or if it shall have dared, there breaketh out the censure and recrimination of them that live evil lives, more readily than the free voice of them that live good lives. And those men are such as say in their heart, "There is no God." Such men I am confuting. Whence confuting? That their doings please God, they judge. He doth not therefore affirm, "some say," but "The unwise man hath said in his heart, There is no God." Which men do so far believe there is a God, that the same God they judge with what they do to be pleased. But if thou being wise dost perceive, how "the unwise man hath said in his heart, There is no God," if thou give heed, if thou understand, if thou examine; he that thinketh that evil doings please God, Him he doth not think to be God. For if God is, He is just; if He is just, injustice displeaseth Him, iniquity displeaseth. But thou, when thou thinkest that iniquity pleaseth Him, dost deny God. For if God is one Whom iniquity displeaseth, but God seemeth not to thee to be one whom iniquity displeaseth, and there is no God but one whom iniquity displeaseth, then when thou sayest in thy heart, God doth countenance my iniquities, thou sayest nothing else than, "There is no God."
 
For a man who does not recognize a law outside of himself, a higher authority of just and unjust, right and wrong, there is only might to make right. I am afraid that is more and more the case these days as this secular humanist society goes its way foolishly denying the eternal laws. These fools follow in the footsteps of the German philosopher Nietzsche who said "Gott is tot" (God is dead, and there is no moral divine law)
 
Our featured homeliest Augustine of Hippo, however, is famous as a Doctor of the Church for his work in explaining the Natural Law that applies to all men, regardless of creed. Where do you stand, with Augustine or Nietzsche?
 
pax Christi


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2008/12/06

The Second Sunday in Advent - Psalm 82


Augustin on Psalm LXXXII
Advent Two Home

BLESSED Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
Collect for the First Sunday in Advent, to be read daily

Source (1st Collect): Archbishop Thomas Cranmer [1549 AD]. The emphasis on Scripture is enunciated here. To understand Cranmer and his desire to encourage Bible reading, read the Preface to the Cranmer Bible and the Preface to the 1549 Prayer Book. [Barbee and Zahl] Cranmer proposed continuous reading of the Scriptures - "lectio continua". Archbishop John Chrysostom, among other early doctors, was an advocate and practitioner of lectio continua.

Isaiah 11, Psalms 80, 82 | 25, 26 Romans xv. 4    St. Luke xxi. 25

Homily of Augustine on Psalm 82

Defend the poor and fatherless; see that such as are in need and necessity have right.
Deliver the outcast and poor; save them from the hand of the ungodly



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"I would say, 'Yeah, I'm not going to close the hospital, you're going to arrest me, go right ahead. You'll have to drag me out, go right ahead. I'm not closing this hospital, we will not perform abortions, and you can go take a flying leap.'"
 
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 Order announces plans for new challenge/prayer coin. Details on the Symbols Page. Contact Primus Pilus to reserve one at cost.
http://www.geocities.com/orderofcenturions/symbol.html
 
New North American Anglican Province established for orthodox traditional Christians who worship according to the Prayer Book. Recognized by the Global Anglican Futures Conference Primates
http://www.americananglican.org/gafcon-primates-statement-on-anglican-church-in-north-america
 
 
 
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For veterans suffering from PTSD. Especially those of the Order of Centurions, who suffer the invisible wouds of combat shock and stress -- known in modern parlarance as post-traumatic stress disorder, and also for those who care for them. Especially for an old friend: LTG James Peake, MD (Ret) who heads the Veterans Administration Healthcare System that is charged with the care and rehabilitation of our discharged warriors who suffer (General Peake knows the demands of combat from his experience as an Infantry Officer in Vietnam where he suffered combat wounds. )
Those seeking information or assistance may find the following site helpful.
http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/index.jsp
 

commentary
 
 
 
Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
This Sunday we consider first the collect for the day shown above that focuses our attention on Holy Scripture. It was crafted by Archbishop Cranmer of England in 1549 for the new English Prayer Book. It is one that we can salute in the Order, as one of our purposes is to read and meditate on Holy Scripture. All traditional, orthodox, and catholic churches and people have recognized the importance of Holy Scripture as a basis of Faith. The church fathers as well all supported the Church's reading and meditation on Scripture: Especially those we feature here in our homily pages: John Chyrsostom with his continuous reading and preaching on Scripture, and Augustine with his particular approach in interpretation of the Psalms.
 
I've selected Augustine's exhortation on Psalm 82 today for our homily, and Isaiah 11:1ff for the accompanying Old Testament lesson. The quotation from the psalm, which is also echoed in the lesson of Isaiah calls for the shepherds of God's flock to judge and rule with mercy, justice, and compassion for the poor, and with vengeance the enemies of God. O how often I fear we in our various countries have failed to follow this calling; and I recognize that by our very innate sin-nature, we will continue to do so... and yet, we may endeavor to emulate that Perfect Governance that was promised by Isaiah and the pslamist, and has been fulfilled fully in our Risen Lord Jesus Christ, who rules beside the Father on his throne and in the hearts of all his elect; and whose dominion, compassion, justice,  and sovereignty extends to all people of the world.
 
Defend the poor and fatherless; see that such as are in need and necessity have right.
Deliver the outcast and poor; save them from the hand of the ungodly
 
Augustine wrote:
 
"How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of the ungodly" (ver. 2); as in another place, "How long are ye heavy in heart?"  Until He shall come who is the light of the heart? I have given a law, ye have resisted stubbornly: I sent Prophets, ye treated them unjustly, or slew them, or connived at those who did so. But if they are not worthy to be even spoken to, who slew the servants of God that were sent to them, ye who were silent when these things were doing, that is, ye who would imitate as if they were innocent those who then were silent, "how long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of the ungodly?" If the Heir comes even now, is He to be slain? Was He not willing for your sake to become as it were a child under guardians? Did not He for your sake hunger and thirst like one in need? Did He not cry to you, "Learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly of heart"?  Did He not "become poor, when He was rich, that by His poverty we might be made rich"? "Give sentence," therefore, "for the fatherless and the poor man, justify the humble and needy" (ver. 3). Not them who for their own sake are rich and proud, but Him who for your sake was humble and poor, believe ye to be righteous: proclaim Him righteous. But they will envy Him, and will not at all spare Him, saying, "This is the Heir, come, let us kill Him, and the inheritance shall be ours." "Deliver," then, "the poor man, and save the needy from the hands of the ungodly" (ver. 4)....
pax Christi
 
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