Reformed Churchmen: First Fransiscan Friar in the REC

Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

First Fransiscan Friar in the REC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buwmX778OEU&feature=player_embedded

First Fransiscan friar received into the Reformed Episcopal Church. Among several things that are problematic in relation to the REC history, the lad prays for the "help of the Immaculate Mother Mary."

So much for any alleged committment to the XXXIX Articles...but then again, we knew that was invoked when needed and discarded when needed. Lying lips to invoke saints and claim an Anglican heritage and the XXXIX Articles.

Dan Morse was a Minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and a former Professor at Reformed Theological Seminary. We'll infer that he is would no longer be accepted by Reformed Churchmen.

Glad to have sung several Psalms today--as usual--with MP and EP from the 1662 BCP, several of which include prayers to be spared the company of liars, flattering tongues, and workers of deceit. Thank God for the Psalms. Thank God for the Old and New Testament that speak of leaders going corrupt. No surprises.