The following is from http://www.usccb.org/romanmissal/examples.shtml . The Third Edition of the Roman Catholic Missal is finally out as of August 21, 2009, and look what they changed back to. (more…)
Archive for the ‘LCMS 2007 Convention’ Category
New Roman Missal Finally Out and LSB is Really
Monday, September 28th, 2009The Pyramid has Crumbled
Monday, May 18th, 2009Surely “someone’ wanted it to happen this way. Defenders of the LCMS polity use the analogy of a pyramid standing on its tip. The congregations are the base; the Synod is the tip. Well, that pyramid has crumbled. (more…)
Don’t Even Bother to ask Your Doctor
Monday, March 16th, 2009Since the late 1990s prescription drug use has grown exponentially. In large part this has been due to the “ask your doctor if _____ is right for you” ad campaign. Doctors are hard pressed when you say, “I have these symptoms, and this drug says it treats them all.” (more…)
The Brotherhood of Sgt. Schultz
Monday, March 2nd, 2009The CTCR has released it’s response to a 2007 convention mandate “To Provide Further Discussion and Guidance on the Matter of Serial Prayer.” This goes back to 2004 Res. 3-06A where the convention commended for study Guidelines for Participation in Civic Event “to help pastors, teachers, and church workers make decisions about participation in civic events” (2004 Proceedings, p. 131).
Part of what bothered some, a few “Troublers of Israel” and no churchmen for sure, was the Guidelines introduction of the heretofore unknown concept of serial prayer. We’ll let the Guidelines speak for themselves. (more…)
Have the flames been fanned or has Ablaze hit the fan?
Monday, February 9th, 2009
This is from the official annual report on the Fan into Flames funds found at www.fanintoflamelcms.org Resolution 1-09 adopted at the 2007 Synod convention required “a detailed annual report…to be published throughout the Synod.” The report is only 6 pages with large margins. Rather than a little blurb in mice type on page 23 of the February Lutheran Witness saying where the report could be found, the whole report could have been published. But then the faithful Lutherans supporting Ablaze! would witness where their money is really going. (more…)
Ugly Betty
Monday, January 12th, 2009Betty isn’t ugly but we are making her that way. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when Father Christmas is handing out gifts he gives to Susan a bow and a quiver full of arrows and a bow and says, “You must use the bow only in great need, for I do not mean you to fight in the battle.” To Lucy he gives a dagger saying, “And the dagger is to defend yourself at great need. For you also are not to be in the battle.” This puzzles her and she says, “’Why, Sir? I think – I don’t know – but I think I could be brave enough.’” Father Christmas responds as so many fathers today fail to, “That is not the point. But battles are ugly when women fight.” (more…)
Quibbling is better than not Knowing
Monday, December 22nd, 2008This is off-color, but there is often pointed truth in ribald humor. (more…)
It’s Long Past Time
Monday, December 15th, 2008Rev. Matthew Harrison of LCMS World Relief has published a paper titled “It’s Time” and subtitled “LCMS Unity and Mission.” It is but the latest plan to get together by talking. Issuing yet another call to talk is not how the process begins. (more…)
Female Elders
Monday, September 8th, 2008You’ll recall that the 2004 Convention said that woman can be elders as long as it doesn’t involve them in the function or accountability of the pastoral office. As of 31 July 2008 three of the nine elders at Trinity, Lexington Park, MD are women. If you would like to see for yourself go to here: (more…)
Public Doctrine
Sunday, July 27th, 2008Much fanfare was made when in 2001 when the LCMS in convention affirmed “The book The Voice of our Church on the Question of Church and Ministry, by Dr. C.F.W. Walther…as the definitive statement under Holy Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions of the Synod’s understanding on the subject of church and ministry.” This is our public doctrine.
Clear enough, right? So are we bound by Thesis Eight on Ministry from the English translation of the 1851 Milwaukee Synodical convention which reads as follows: “The (more…)