Friday! March 22, 2019*

        will our unfaithfulness  

    nullify the  faithfulness of God’s? 

                                             By no means!     

              _____Romans 3:3*_ 

  * James DeKoven, 

          1831 - 1879 

  American priest trained at Nashota House who was  so  “high church”   that not enough dioceses would consent to his consecration as bishop of two separate dioceses.  I do love his  statement to the General Convention of 1874: (And men it was whether gentle or not,  since women were not seated as delegates until 1946 - a lay delegate of course… women in holy orders was in the future…)  

                         You may take away from us, if you will, 

                         every external ceremony;  you may take 

                         away altars and super altars, lights and 

                         incense and  vestments;… and we will 

                        submit to you. But,  gentlemen…To adore 

                       Christ’s Person in his sacrament – that is

                        the inalienable privilege of every Christian 

                        and  Catholic heart. How we do it, the way 

                        we do it, the ceremonies* with which we 

                           do it,  are utterly, utterly indifferent.  

                         The thing   itself is what we plead for.  

                                                                *         
   *For the ceremonies Siri heard “the Sarah Moni’s” just to 
show once again what a pagan Siri- and the culture- is) 
         
                                                                                                    * R omans 3:3 
is actually THEIR unfaithfulness… Paul is carrying on about his 
own people, the Jews,  and the true meaning of circumcision. 
Which is what DeKoven is saying too….