Tag Archives: Episcopal Church

The Baptismal Covenant and our Rule of Life

By punkmonksf | Published: May 27, 2010
Our life in apostolic witness is a full affirmation of our commitment to Baptism. In the community of the baptized that is the church, we are called not to better or more profound commitment to what is asked of us in Baptism, but instead to a visible and more deliberate witness to what the Baptismal [...]
Posted in Updates | Also tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

A Community Gathered

By punkmonksf | Published: May 25, 2010
Oh… how I love my brothers !
Posted in Updates | Also tagged , , , | Leave a comment

A Eucharistic Prayer for Justice (long version)

By punkmonksf | Published: May 17, 2010
Written in 2005 for use at my parish. Please feel free to use as you wish and as your Bishop has permitted. But let me know! The people remain standing. The Presider faces them and sings or says    May God be with you. People And also with you. Presider    Lift up your hearts. [...]
Posted in Updates | Also tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

The Vow of Obedience

By punkmonksf | Published: May 9, 2010
It is important for us to realize in community that we are not held together by the truths and certainties that we possess, but rather we are bound by what we lack in ourselves and in our finite natures. We are bound together by our common struggle to find meaning and to seek Christ, not [...]
Posted in Updates | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

The Holy Scriptures

By punkmonksf | Published: April 14, 2010
We are a people of the Book. The Bible is our document, it is our history. We, as an apostolic religious community may feel free to claim it as our own, in as much as it is the book of the whole family of God. It is from the Book that we gain our understanding [...]
Posted in Updates | Also tagged , , , | Leave a comment