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Notes on the Office
What is the Office? (1) The Church’s daily offering of praise to God the Father through Christ; its fundamental emphases are corporate, objective, and self-effacing — the “pulse” of the organism. — A...
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Homily: “At the Cross Trembling with Mary”
An Eastertide mystagogy on the Liturgy of Good Friday. [NB: Homily by Matthew Dallman.] Our Eastertide mystagogy continues. This morning, Good Friday. The meaning of the Atonement. The meaning of our...
View ArticleSlideshow: The Prayer Book as Regula
click for slideshow See also: What does Regula mean? Icon by the hand of Monica Thornton.
View ArticleHomily: On the Liturgical Nature of Mission (with audio)
Homily by Matthew Dallman Given at St Paul’s Parish, Riverside, Illinois On Proper 9, Year C, 2013 (BCP 1979): Isaiah 66:10-16 | Galatians 6:(1-10)14-18 | Luke 10:1-12,16-20 To say that names are...
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Anamnesis and regula
The Church is Christ’s body, and He is the head of the body. In this sense, the Church is the “extension” of the incarnation of God. As John Macquarrie writes, “the Church is an ongoing incarnation. It...
View ArticleHomily: Watchfulness through regula (with audio)
Homily by Matthew Dallman Given at St Paul’s Parish, Riverside, Illinois On Proper 14, Year C: Genesis 15.1-6 | Psalm 33 | Hebrews 11.1-3, 8-16 | Luke 12:32-40 We return this morning to the theme of...
View ArticleAngels and the Catholic Imagination, part 1: Angels are all about God
Angels and the Catholic Imagination, a homily series HOMILY II | HOMILY III Homily 1 of 3: “Angels are all about God” Given at St Paul’s, Riverside, Illinois on Michaelmas 2013 It is fitting that on...
View ArticleAngels and the Catholic Imagination, part 3: Angels are Sacramental Beings
Angels and the Catholic Imagination, a homily series HOMILY I | HOMILY II Homily 3 of 3: “Angels are Sacramental Beings” Given at St Paul’s Parish, Riverside, Illinois We conclude this morning this...
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How Anselm speaks to modern Anglicanism
Below is an excerpt of Martin Thornton commenting on a passage of St Anselm. First the passage from Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo, I.2: As on the one hand, right order requires that we believe the deep things...
View ArticleThe Person of Jesus Christ (Lecture 1 of 5) by John Macquarrie
LECTURE 1 “The State of Christology in the Present Age” Presiding Bishop John Allin introduces John Macquarrie to the House of Bishops’ gathering. In this first of five presentations over five days,...
View ArticleA Proposal to Revise the Divine Office
It is not sufficient to participate regularly in the Eucharist, with its unequal stress on individuality and formalism; rather we have to be eucharistic people. We have to live perpetually in the...
View ArticleHomily: On Martin Thornton and the Eucharist
Homily delivered on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi 2014 at Saint Paul’s, Riverside, Illinois. Now, it was not quite parallel to that moment that Saint Augustine described in his book, Confessions,...
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“The Diverse Riches of Prayer”
[Note: I found this clipping among Thornton’s collected working papers. It is easily one of his best short pieces on prayer. Enjoy.] Martin Thornton by Deborah Yetter By the Rev. Dr Martin Thornton The...
View ArticleTo Be Called by Jesus
Homily delivered on the Solemnity of Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, 2014 at Saint Paul’s, Riverside, Illinois. “Jesus saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him,...
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“Music and Ascetical Theology”
Martin Thornton by Deborah Yetter There is an old tradition which sees the relation between the Organist and the Vicar as roughly that between cat and dog: by domestication they manage to exist...
View ArticleWhy set-prayer?
Those of you who follow the Akenside Press Twitter feed, and its Facebook page, know how prominently the blog Catholicity and Covenant figures in our daily efforts toward Catholic renewal in Anglican...
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“Prayer and Incarnation”
By Martin Thornton[1] Contemporary theology is in confusion: which is at least to start with a proposition that nobody is likely to dispute. It is neither my present task, nor is it within my...
View ArticleThe Divine Office of Praise
Concerning the Offices: Divine Office of Praise and Daily Office of Readings The threefold Regula—Divine Office, Mass, personal Devotion—is the ascetical application of the doctrine of Holy Trinity. In...
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