tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post6814158967338623307..comments2023-11-02T10:50:42.128-05:00Comments on CLOSED: A couple of Episcopal insiders come out against "open communion"TLF+http://www.blogger.com/profile/01650010433581488888noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-51201356629046128062009-03-03T15:05:00.000-06:002009-03-03T15:05:00.000-06:00Thanks, Archer & Anonymous.I don't intend ...Thanks, Archer & Anonymous.<BR/><BR/>I don't intend to canonize Bp. Epting or the Rev. Dr. Weil - I'm just glad that they've come 'round to rejecting open communion.<BR/><BR/>Of course it is going to go on all over TEC. The same people who appeal to "our unique polity" and answer everything with the bad end of Canon Law simply ignore the Canons when their feeeeeeeelings tell them to.TLF+https://www.blogger.com/profile/01650010433581488888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-20305103271502470472009-03-03T14:57:00.000-06:002009-03-03T14:57:00.000-06:00Just so you know...Louis Weil is an ordained pries...Just so you know...Louis Weil is an ordained priest, so his title is Rev. Dr. Louis Weil...Louis has received communion during Roman Catholic Masses and has distributed communion to those of the Jewish AND Muslim faiths...Finally, Louis has authored several draft liturgies for use in the blessing of same-sex unions. Thought you should know...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-12237046077330856522009-03-03T13:30:00.000-06:002009-03-03T13:30:00.000-06:00Bishop Epting is hard to gauge sometimes. He has b...Bishop Epting is hard to gauge sometimes. He has basically moved into the Cathedral in Omaha, under the 4 new 815 mission outpost scheme (or whatever its called.) He presented a little bit at the Nebraska annual council last year about the Interfaith Initiative in Omaha. I remember it was a really peculiar presentation. But then he preached at one of the daily Eucharists, and it was a really good, solid sermon.<BR/><BR/>We had to read a good bit of Weil's stuff when I was in seminary. As I recall it was a bunch of liturgical fluff. I think his books are in a box downstairs that's labeled "Seminary Castoffs." It surprises me he's not openly in favor of "Communion of the unbaptized." He's in favor of just about everything else in that vein of thought.The Archer of the Foresthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03075768526819990250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-78777977771665432652009-03-02T07:33:00.000-06:002009-03-02T07:33:00.000-06:00Perpetua - dare we hope that someone in TEC actual...Perpetua - dare we hope that someone in TEC actually repented? But in an elitist denomination, it is entirely possible that he holds out one standard for the masses (pardon the pun) and another for the illuminati. I'm still glad he came out against it in a public setting.<BR/><BR/>robroy - wow. That's so on target. Bonhoeffer is certainly one to whom we can point when folks ask, "Are there still prophets today?"TLF+https://www.blogger.com/profile/01650010433581488888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-11133281452857055942009-03-02T00:15:00.000-06:002009-03-02T00:15:00.000-06:00"The price we are paying today in the shape of the..."The price we are paying today in the shape of the collapse of the organized church is only the inevitable consequence of our policy at making grace available at too low a price. We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale, and absolved a whole nation unasked and without condition…We poured forth unending streams of grace. But the call to follow Jesus in the narrow way was hardly ever heard." BonhoefferAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873059253261642303.post-70225279088452300302009-03-01T21:53:00.000-06:002009-03-01T21:53:00.000-06:00Hi Fr. Timothy,I actually know a Jewish man who wa...Hi Fr. Timothy,<BR/><BR/>I actually know a Jewish man who was given Holy Communion by Dr. Louis Weil. This Jewish man described the event to me, which was in a private home. The Jewish man said that Dr. Weil knew he was Jewish and not baptized. So, whatever Dr. Weil may be saying publicly, in private he had practiced communion of the unbaptized.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16632860530530786486noreply@blogger.com