More on incarnation question

I have never criticised the views held by the authors of Mother-God.com on the matter of incarnation. The "historic" incarnation, of Christianity, is rather necessitated by the decline of human history into the Iron Age in which rational mind can only think in terms of matters.

It is not a coincidence that Christianity, Buddhism and Islam all had historically-verifiable human founder around this part of human history. Human minds, no longer able to digest the truth solely from a purely mythological source, required something that could be related to their physical world.

This is also in part why Jesus spoke in parables to the common populace.

1 Corinthians 2:6-8 (NASB): Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood.

New Miss Iris weblog to debut in November

The newly re-vamped Miss Iris weblog starts on Nov. 1, 2008 with a very different format. Stay tuned.

Avatar and incarnation

In response to Miss Georgina McCobb (http://www.mother-god.com/mother-god-blog.html#Our-Lady---Incarnate-avatar-or-Eternal-Savior?): I recommend the book, Avatar and Incarnation, by Edward G. Parrinder (Oxford University Press, 1970).

A Collyridian eucharist liturgy is here.

I am pleased to announce that the latest (and more complete) revision of a Collyridian eucharist liturgy is now released on the Commission for Liturgy and Worship website. This liturgy is also rewritten in a contemporary North American English language.

http://collyridianliturgies.wikispaces.com/Holy+Eucharist+A

Rosales pipe organ at the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (Oregon)

http://www.trinity-episcopal.org/sections/Music/Organ.htm

This organ, one of the best in North America, is played weekly in the 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist service.

Come down, O Love Divine

Come down, O love divine, seek Thou this soul of mine,
And visit it with Thine own ardour glowing.
O Comforter, draw near, within my heart appear,
And kindle it, Thy holy flame bestowing.

O let it freely burn, till earthly passions turn
To dust and ashes in its heat consuming;
And let Thy glorious light shine ever on my sight,
And clothe me round, the while my path illuming.

Let holy charity mine outward vesture be,
And lowliness become mine inner clothing;
True lowliness of heart, which takes the humbler part,
And o’er its own shortcomings weeps with loathing.

And so the yearning strong, with which the soul will long,
Shall far outpass the power of human telling;
For none can guess its grace, till she become the place
Wherein the Holy Spirit makes Her dwelling.

#516 in the Hymnal 1982

Words: Bianco da Siena, d. 1434;trans. Richard Frederick Littledale, Jr., 1867
Music: Down Ampney, North Petherton
Meter: 66 11 D

A bottomless well of love springing up in our own hearts

The Most Rev. ++Rowan D. Williams at the Lambeth Conference on the feast of St. Gregory of Nyssa.