Wed March 22, 2017. Today we remember James DeKoven, 1831-1879 priest and professor of a crazy ass tickle (Siri’s version of ecclesiastical!) history at Nashota House during the "ritualism “controversy of the time.

                                           Psalm 119:102 

I 

do 

not 

shrink 

from 

your 

judgements, 

for your yourself have taught me.  

At the 1874 General Conven-tion DeKoven 

said  "You may take away from 

us, if you will, every external 

ceremony; you 

may take away altars and super-altars and lights,

and incense and vest-ments. But gentlemen, (all dudes then…) to adore Christ's person in the Sacraments – 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.  

_____write these words on you heart_____