Who Can Baptise?
Lay Roman Catholics can now officially, publicly baptise in their churches. Women are acting in persona Christi as they minister this Sacrament.
Lay Roman Catholics can now officially, publicly baptise in their churches. Women are acting in persona Christi as they minister this Sacrament.
The early church did not use an agreed said-aloud baptismal formula (either trinitarian or otherwise), and St Paul shows this to be the case.
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The recent decision that more than a quarter of a century of a priest’s baptisms are invalid is not just legalism gone egregious, it can be challenged as mistaken.
Theological and pastoral questions about the virtual world are not going away. Avatars acting for individuals in a virtual, digital world have again been much in the news with Facebook changing its company name to Meta last year. This company has been building a metaverse in which digital avatars act as stand-ins for our physical
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With or Without Bread and Wine
BCP 1662, being used as a lens for arguing in favour of virtual Eucharists, in fact is saying the very opposite. The BCP theological lens indicates it is not possible.
Spiritual Communion With or Without Bread and Wine
Part 3 of a response to a theological paper on participating in a virtual Eucharist.
Virtual Sacraments? Read More »
Part 2 of a response to a theological paper on participating in a virtual Eucharist.
When it comes to Remote Consecration (consecrating bread and wine via a screen), this is as far as the discussion has got to.
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