tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post3770154870538538602..comments2023-12-24T11:20:38.708+00:00Comments on The Muniment Room: Baker, OregonTtonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185875893212146794noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-3767260878392006222008-07-30T12:41:00.000+01:002008-07-30T12:41:00.000+01:00Excellent post. Fairly recently, as part of a con...Excellent post. Fairly recently, as part of a consultation by an English diocese, I attended a meeting to thrash out the parish’s contribution. At one point an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion asserted that "Jesus didn't found a Church". The chairman exclaimed "Yes, that's right!" I countered with a couple of passages from the New Testament, the one I can still remember being "Thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build My Church". They looked at me with benevolent blankness, as though at an eccentric granny saying inappropriate things at a family gathering. My immediate thought was "They've both been to the same seminar". What other errors are they being fed at these training events, which they then pass on, in all sincerity, to others? Oh for a bishop who would be prepared to do what is necessary to restore orthodoxy in every influential sphere!<BR/>I prefer this comment to be anonymous, as I don't want to run any risk of identifying individuals who in themselves are very good, decent people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-82299779244688469192008-07-30T11:10:00.000+01:002008-07-30T11:10:00.000+01:00This Bishop is doing what all Bishops should be do...This Bishop is doing what all Bishops should be doing: protecting the flock from the wolves.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08692837527315745231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-49105137749152735462008-07-30T05:02:00.000+01:002008-07-30T05:02:00.000+01:00What an excellent idea! I would be very happy to s...What an excellent idea! I would be very happy to sign up to this affirmation. If only such an affirmation were required where I live.<BR/>JARayJARayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138004129894177863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-85868244208401989922008-07-29T23:04:00.000+01:002008-07-29T23:04:00.000+01:00(Arch)bishop Chaput, whom you say is the bishop of...(Arch)bishop Chaput, whom you say is the bishop of Oregon, is actually Archbishop of Denver.<BR/><BR/>The bishop of Baker, Oregon, is Bishop Robert Vasa:<BR/><BR/>http://www.dioceseofbaker.org/<BR/><BR/>Both are excellent bishops. I only we wish we had one like either of them here in the UK.<BR/><BR/>The Affirmation of Personal Faith is excellent. It would be wonderful to have something like that here, too, but I suspect it would need to be subscribed to by a bishop first.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com