Breaking News: (Fr.) Cutié

Breaking news, as they say, is that the Rev'd Alberto Cutié, the telegenic and now former Roman Catholic priest caught on the beach with his girlfriend, has been privately received into the Episcopal Church and is on his way to being received as a priest. Is anyone else distressed by this and wondering why there might not be time taken to consider questions of vows, commitment, obedience, clarity of vocation...?

The Visitation

Monday, June 1 is the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (transferred from May 31). This major Holy Day celebrates Mary's visit to her kinswoman Elizabeth after hearing from the Angel Gabriel that Elizabeth, as well as Mary, will give birth to a child. There Elizabeth's child - John the Baptist - leaps in the womb in witness to Our Lord, and Mary sings the Magnificat, her great song of praise. St. Paul's will celebrate The Visitation on Monday at 7:00 pm with a Eucharist in the Lady Chapel.

The Ascension of Our Lord

St. Luke in the Acts of the Apostles tells us that forty days after Easter, Jesus commissioned his disciples to be his witnesses "to the end of the earth", and then ascended into heaven. As the Book of Common Prayer says, he "ascended far above all heavens that he might fill all things." St. Paul's will celebrate this major feast day of the Church on Thursday, May 21, with a choral Eucharist at 7:00 pm. Please join us.

A Catholic and Comprehensive Way

In the midst of all the blog and other interweb chatter, a new blog - Comprehensiveness for the Sake of Truth - now comes to commend to the Church a way to think about our life together. It offers what, in my occasionally humble opinion, is too often lacking in our conversation - a theological thoughtfulness that is at one and the same time carefully rooted in our tradition and available to the ongoing movement of the Holy Spirit. In short, it raises up the points of the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral (the Scriptures, the Creeds, the Dominical Sacraments, the Historic Episcopate) along with the Book of Common Prayer and the other authorized liturgies as the standard for our worship, and response in the name of Christ to the needs of our neighbors and the world as our apostolic ministry, as a way to ground our thought and reflection as a church.

The site is here. What do you think?