The Anglican Way

[@dboot3887]

Which kind of fabric has Your nice Surplice (Old English?) and where could I find it? I hope I do not sound superficial, but as a student of theology I find this vestment much nicer than lot of the newer vestments. Keep up Your nice sermon and channel.

[@elizabethinilapli7181]

In the Solomon islands... majority of people are Anglican also

[@ryansatterfield]

Thank you for the clear and concise message. Could I ask what camera you used to film this? Looks fantastic.

[@chrisfindley9037]

I'm not sure. But I can check with the guy who does our recording...

[@democraticpatriot2657]

He's dressed like an Anglican bishop - rochet & chemere, with an academic hood. Is he a bishop?

[@chrisfindley9037]

Actually, that's a Cassock, Surplice, Tippet with hood. The traditional dress of Anglican priests until the early to mid-1900's.

[@democraticpatriot2657]

@@chrisfindley9037 Thank you for clarifying about the clerical vestments. What he is wearing looks like the attire of bishops both at the recent Lambeth conference and the ceremonies around the late Queen's death.

[@chrisfindley9037]

@@democraticpatriot2657 No problem. They are similar to be sure and are collectively called "Choir Dress". Often Bishops Rochets are Red, which helps set them apart a little. The "he" you refer to the video, is me!

[@democraticpatriot2657]

@@chrisfindley9037 Yes, after hitting "send" I realized that "he" is "you." Today's Episcopal church bears scant resemblance to the church I was baptized in as a convert back in the 1960s. It's been decades since I last saw a priest vested in surplice, tippit & hood, save perhaps at a committal.

[@dboot3887]

Which kind of fabric has Your nice Surplice (Old English?) and where could I find it? I hope I do not sound superficial, but as a student of theology I find this vestment much nicer than lot of the newer vestments. Keep up Your nice sermon and channel.

[@Nicolae685]

What a beautiful statement, all based on the Bible. But same-sex marriages, abortion and all kinds of sins, why does the Anglican church somehow close its eyes, especially in the West. Isn't it possible that Protestantism, including the Anglican Church, has become more sinful than the Catholic one. Ok Anglican Church she has autocephaly, but why does she allow such blatant acts to heaven, only believing that a doctor does not have to accept Caesar's law, which is hers. Out of all the falls, the service of women in the church represents the total fall. The Protestant churches say what they say, but it still happens I submit to the state. To prevent persecution. Protestant spirits can only resist in conflicts but I don't know at the moment I see a fall and I don't see any recovery. God must not be changed as others say. Who will be ashamed of Christ and I will be ashamed shame on him.

[@yankiuhui2550]

Come home to the Catholic Church, my friend :)

[@chrisfindley9037]

I swam the Tiber once. Then I swam back. Anglicanism is where I belong.

[@richlopez5896]

@@chrisfindley9037 The Ordinariate is always there if you should decide to come back and maintain Anglican patrimony. “The Lord says to Peter: ‘I say to you,’ he says, ‘that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.’ . . . On him [Peter] he builds the Church, and to him he gives the command to feed the sheep [John 21:17], and although he assigns a like power to all the apostles, yet he founded a single chair [cathedra], and he established by his own authority a source and an intrinsic reason for that unity. Indeed, the others were that also which Peter was [i.e., apostles], but a primacy is given to Peter, whereby it is made clear that there is but one Church and one chair. So too, all [the apostles] are shepherds, and the flock is shown to be one, fed by all the apostles in single-minded accord. If someone does not hold fast to this unity of Peter, can he imagine that he still holds the faith? If he [should] desert the chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, can he still be confident that he is in the Church?”- St. Cyprian of Carthage (The Unity of the Catholic Church 4; 1st edition [A.D. 251]). ordinariate.net/

[@DonaldKitchell-rd9kl]

@@richlopez5896Thank God for the Reformation and Protestantism. Thank God we have been delivered from the heresy the papists brought upon the Body of Christ. Thank God.

[@richlopez5896]

@@DonaldKitchell-rd9kl The Catholic Church is the Body of Christ. It has been so since Jesus Christ established it in 33 A.D. The great diversity of contradicting Protestant doctrines stems from the doctrine of private judgment, which denies the infallible authority of the Church and claims that each individual is to interpret Scripture for himself. This idea is rejected in 2 Peter 1:20, where we are told the first rule of Bible interpretation: “First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation.” A significant feature of this heresy is the attempt to pit the Church “against” the Bible, denying that the magisterium has any infallible authority to interpret Scripture. This doctrine of private judgment has resulted in thousands of different Christian denominations and quasi-Christian splinter groups throughout history. If you are a Lutheran, your sect was founded by Martin Luther in the year 1517. If you belong to the Church of England, your sect was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry. If you are a Presbyterian, your sect was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the year 1560. If you are Episcopalian, your sect was an offshoot of the Church of England founded by Samuel Seabury in the American colonies in the 17th century. If you are a Congregationalist, your sect was originated by Robert Brown in Holland in 1582. If you are a Methodist, your sect was launched by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744. If you are a Unitarian, Theophilus Lindley founded your sect in London in 1774. If you are a Mormon (Latter Day Saints), Joseph Smith started your sect in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1829. If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your sect to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1605. If you are of the Dutch Reformed church, you recognize Michaelis Jones as founder, because he originated your sect in New York in 1628. If you worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865. If you are a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year in which your sect was born and to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy as its founder. If you belong to one of the religious organizations known as 'Church of the Nazarene," "Pentecostal" "Holiness Church," "Evangelical," "Jehovah's Witnesses," your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men within the past century. If you are Catholic, you know that your religion was founded in the year 33 by Jesus Christ Fortunately, we have Christ’s promise that heresies will never prevail against the Church, for he told Peter, “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18). The Catholic Church is truly, in St. Paul’s words, “the pillar and foundation of the truth” (1 Tim. 3:15).