Anglicans are delightfully odd: they manage to approve the extension of orders that do not exist to people who could not receive them anyway, even if they were real. What next?
Vanity and ambition drive this fabricated debate... A holy life and eternal salvation for the love of Jesus Christ: these are the objectives all Christians - clergymen, laymen, and laywomen - should pursue, as the memory of Saint Elizabeth of Portugal reminds us.
Vanity and ambition drive this fabricated debate... A holy life and eternal salvation for the love of Jesus Christ: these are the objectives all Christians - clergymen, laymen, and laywomen - should pursue, as the memory of Saint Elizabeth of Portugal reminds us.
Regnum mundi, et omnem ornatum saeculi contempsi propter amorem Domini mei Iesu Christi: Quem vidi, quem amavi, in quem credidi, quem dilexi. (The kingdom of this world and all the beauty of life I have despised, for the love of Jesus Christ my Lord: Whom I saw, Whom I loved, in Whom I believed, for Whom I longed. - Matins for today's Feast).
