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Christ the King Archdiocese, Philippines Provience (FCEEC)
Then, he that digges us up, will bring Us, to the Bishop, and the King,
To make us Reliques; then
Thou shalt be a Mary Magdalen, and I
A something else thereby...
'John Donne' The Priest who would be a Poet & bound to his Magdalena.
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The Magdalen-Donne Mission is the the home of the the Missionary Bishop(Emeritus), Thomas Lee Darkus, D.Min, of the Filipino Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches - Missionary Diocese of Saint Mary of Magdalene and the Chaplain of the Veterans of Forgeign Wars of the U.S.A., Philippines District VII, Department of the Pacific and Department of the Pacific Chaplain for the 2009-2010 service year.
KEEPING TRUTH ALIVE
Man’s Meeting with God by Charles Henry Brent, former sometime Bishop of the Philippine Islands.
[Brief bio of Bp. Brent is located on the LINK, "What is Dying".]
The presence of our Lord at the altar is special but not exclusive. It is not a lamp lighted for a moment and then put out, but a light which will illuminate all life, and enable us to see at every turn the vision of omni-present Love. It is one function of the sacraments to enhance, not to dim, the reality of God’s immanence in all His works; to train us to perceive and apprehend that
“Earth’s crammed with heaven
And every common bush
Afire with God, …”
…a declaration which otherwise would be held to be but a poet’s fickle fancy or a vague philosophical idea. Days are coming, if they are not already upon us, when in the midst of scientific progress and explanation in which men are prone to rest as final, the believer’s ceaseless theme must be the Divine indwelling. And the strongest and most telling means of keeping alive this truth for ourselves and others is the sacramental system of the Church.
[From The Anglican Digest, Advent A.D. 2001 Vol. 43, No. 6, p. 61.]
The bread you do not use is the bread of the hungry.
The garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of the person who is naked.
The shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot.
The money you keep locked away is the money of the poor.
The acts of charity you do not perform are the injustices you commit.
St. Basil the Great
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