Lovely article Giles. I begin to like you. After the fire the earthquake. Finally a still small voice.
Sue Sims
4 years ago
Can you use the technique we (Roman) Catholics have used for many, many centuries, and have a server answering the Mass?
SUSAN HILL
4 years ago
Catholic priests often say their daily Mass alone. It will seem less strange as it goes on and remember, you have the ‘cloud of witnesses’ there with you. Tell me what time you are next celebrating and I will be one of them
Father McKenzie Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear No one comes near Look at him working Darning his socks in the night when there’s nobody there What does he care?
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Andrew Denny
4 years ago
Giles, you are so articulate, so affecting, so influential. Well done.
steve taylor
4 years ago
Many (Catholic) churches use Church Services TV (https://www.churchservices….. My own church will celebrating mass without a congregation but I will be able to view it and participate in my own way.
Peter Ryan
4 years ago
I had a discussion with my local Anglican priest about the nature of apostolic succession (he said he believed in an apostolic succession of the priesthood, although not the papacy) and the role of priests… I said that perhaps we could accept that priests have the sole authority in certain areas, but I reckoned that in the case of communion, the message in the gospels is a universal request to at times eat and drink in remembrance of Jesus – and that this could be done both with and without the involvement of a priest… this attitude could enable other types of communal communion/mass & also individual remembrance
Yes, the irony that the Jewish celebration in the home is denied to Christians because an intermediary has somehow become a requirement. Is not the current situation a golden opportunity to encourage all people to celebrate the Lord’s Supper in their homes?
Miriam Uí
4 years ago
You can simply pray to the audience of One. Time to go deeper with God. But I’m sure your congregation would appreciate if you can live stream it somehow…
Lovely article Giles. I begin to like you. After the fire the earthquake. Finally a still small voice.
Can you use the technique we (Roman) Catholics have used for many, many centuries, and have a server answering the Mass?
Catholic priests often say their daily Mass alone. It will seem less strange as it goes on and remember, you have the ‘cloud of witnesses’ there with you. Tell me what time you are next celebrating and I will be one of them
Father McKenzie
Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near
Look at him working
Darning his socks in the night when there’s nobody there
What does he care?
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Giles, you are so articulate, so affecting, so influential. Well done.
Many (Catholic) churches use Church Services TV (https://www.churchservices….. My own church will celebrating mass without a congregation but I will be able to view it and participate in my own way.
I had a discussion with my local Anglican priest about the nature of apostolic succession (he said he believed in an apostolic succession of the priesthood, although not the papacy) and the role of priests… I said that perhaps we could accept that priests have the sole authority in certain areas, but I reckoned that in the case of communion, the message in the gospels is a universal request to at times eat and drink in remembrance of Jesus – and that this could be done both with and without the involvement of a priest… this attitude could enable other types of communal communion/mass & also individual remembrance
Yes, the irony that the Jewish celebration in the home is denied to Christians because an intermediary has somehow become a requirement. Is not the current situation a golden opportunity to encourage all people to celebrate the Lord’s Supper in their homes?
You can simply pray to the audience of One.
Time to go deeper with God.
But I’m sure your congregation would appreciate if you can live stream it somehow…
And also with you Giles