Thank you Father, a thoughtful and much needed appraisal of modern Christianity. We are privileged to have a Latin Mass community, with priests and young novitiates who undertake a ten hour round-trip to support the small but rapidly growing congregation in my home town. It is reverent, profound and beautiful, even when offered in a local hall. Pope Francis has ensured there is no room at the inn for tradition, while opening the Vatican for worship by -well anyone. We live in strange, and I would contend pivotal times. Silence is complicity. Too many Bishops look first to their image and media profiles rather than to their Maker and Saviour. Thank you for your witness.
The CofE likely needs to die - it's very sad, especially given the things you point out about the comfort of church bells etc. However, I believe in its current form it's too far gone to save. Better to rebuild. My Orthodox parish is growing, to the point we need to move premises, and this is a good sign that the faith isn't dying as a whole. The only problem would appear to be that the vast majority of new members are young men, and not an even balance of young men and women.
But Greece was the first Othodox Christian country to legalise Gay Marriage last month. What's going to stop Othodox Christianity going the same way? Isn't there something fundamentally floored in Christianity that it gradually gets captured by Liberalism?
Yep, I did indeed read about that. Orthodoxy in general is just more resistant to change, for a variety of reasons. But, I think you raise a very good point about someing inherent to Christianity itself regardless of form, however, I don't think I'm qualified to answer it. Perhaps Calvin could jump in here to assist?
I think your assessment is spot on, but how can a broken church heal a broken world? The Church needs to be under one banner before the world will listen to our message.
We need to return to prayer—bold prayers and effective prayers. I sense the Holy Spirit is raising up prayer warriors even now. Let us be found faithful. Reading the hermit- Marie Theresa Coombs books on prayer and spiritual direction is a great way to grow in your spiritual journey. Lord, hear our prayers 🙏✝️
Fr. Calvin, may God continue to bless your work. You are not alone. Your labor is not in vain. Take heart, our Redeemer lives!
Just curious… Have you read much Leslie Newbigin? He offers a unique perspective as an English theologian that served as a bishop in the east. If you have read his work, what is your take on his assessment of the West and suggestions for a corrective course of action?
Amen! Great read and I am praying over these individuals you mentioned, that the Holy Spirit will work in their lives to draw them to know our Savior. Contend for the Faith - it is the only source of Joy, peace and hope for our world
Hello Calvin I saw your video in 2022 on being cancelled by the cofe I was in the anglican church as a boy & then moved to a pentecostal church. We've also been part of a baptist church & are now back at a local elim church. Re praying for muslims I see your point but I myself have prayed for muslims during ramadan. My prayer has been that they would have a REAL encounter with God or our Lord Jesus & know him fully & the truth of the Gospel. Apperently Jesus has appeared to muslims who were on a pilgramage to mecca. Keep up the good work in standing for God & the truth🙂🙏
Agreed. People have always noted that similarities between Islam and Arianism, so it can be argued that Islam is a Christian heresy. But the Christians who were in the region of the birth of Islam were mainly Orthodox or Nestorian, not Catholic.
You have quite a few opinions regarding the CoE but you are not Anglican but rather Old Catholic with a different bishop(s). One of the problems with those advocating for an ancient Christianity (The Great Tradition) is we need to mind the right door in which we enter it. To enter by no door (RC, EO, Protestant) is to have no standing and no piety. It is to be neo-modern in a way which isn’t even realized.
Greece last month was the first Othodox Christian country to legalise Gay Marriage. There is something deeply floored in Christianity. Liberalism has been able to water it down and then capture it.
We will need more than Religion to save the West.
Christians are at the moment propping up the post 1945 Liberal paradigm (which is destroying the West) and are not challenging it.
Classical Liberalism is a key part of the problem.
I'm an admirer of your work and zeal for the Lord.
Christendom cannot return to western society, this is prophecy and Matthew 24 highlights profoundly many hearts will grow cold. Off course, this doesn't mean we should disregard Apostolic succession and holy orders but at the same time we need to realise we are going into a new age of the church.
There will always be a remnant, invisible or visible universal church. Evangelising in a post modern Western world us very challenging when you have a society of people who enjoy their false democratic freedom's of inclusion and equality, a society who always has to be a victim and never own up to bring sinners!!!
Modern youth rarely want to swallow the pill of repentance and sin no more!!!
Let's look at the positives, Christianity is flourishing in Asia and Africa.
UK while it's secular, will never become an Islamic state. Muslims are struggling to keep their believers orthadox just as much as the Catholics, most are just Muslim in name and culture only.
Moving forward, let's pray for our church leaders and try to be the salt of the Earth so people can see the way of Jesus is the only truth and light.
Ecumenical dialogue with Christians need to continue and we should all try to be part of the Priest hood of believers and seek gifts of the spirits that only priests and monks had prior to the holiness revival.
The new church age is Charismatic, St Padre Pio, St Francis of Assisi and St Anthony of Padova all prayed in tongues and now this gift is available to all of us.
Pope Frances confirms this!!!! Let's take back the power collectively and use this to glorify Christ's name through signs and wonders.
Let's avoid the Heresy of Calvinism and seek t9 save every soul rather than the elect few!!!
Holy Saint Michael,
The Great Archangel,
Defend us in The Day of Battle,
Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the Devil,
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
And may thou, Oh Prince of The Heavenly Host,
By the Power of God,
Cast down to hell Satan
And all the evil spirits
Who wander through the Earth for the ruin of souls.
Amen
Amen !
Such a powerful prayer. Thank you
Thank you Father, a thoughtful and much needed appraisal of modern Christianity. We are privileged to have a Latin Mass community, with priests and young novitiates who undertake a ten hour round-trip to support the small but rapidly growing congregation in my home town. It is reverent, profound and beautiful, even when offered in a local hall. Pope Francis has ensured there is no room at the inn for tradition, while opening the Vatican for worship by -well anyone. We live in strange, and I would contend pivotal times. Silence is complicity. Too many Bishops look first to their image and media profiles rather than to their Maker and Saviour. Thank you for your witness.
The CofE likely needs to die - it's very sad, especially given the things you point out about the comfort of church bells etc. However, I believe in its current form it's too far gone to save. Better to rebuild. My Orthodox parish is growing, to the point we need to move premises, and this is a good sign that the faith isn't dying as a whole. The only problem would appear to be that the vast majority of new members are young men, and not an even balance of young men and women.
But Greece was the first Othodox Christian country to legalise Gay Marriage last month. What's going to stop Othodox Christianity going the same way? Isn't there something fundamentally floored in Christianity that it gradually gets captured by Liberalism?
Be grateful to hear your analysis. Thank you.
I for one will not support gay marriage or blessing services in a church. (Same sex blessings)
I am conservative evangelical to the rapture ✝️
Don’t know the answer but believe questions are important. It is humanity that is fundamentally floored and yes my point is kinda circular.
Yep, I did indeed read about that. Orthodoxy in general is just more resistant to change, for a variety of reasons. But, I think you raise a very good point about someing inherent to Christianity itself regardless of form, however, I don't think I'm qualified to answer it. Perhaps Calvin could jump in here to assist?
Thank you.
Let’s start by reclaiming Easter.
Everyone purchase Easter cards (cards with Christian themes only!) and stuff each card with a gift card to local restaurants.
Then pass out the cards to random strangers you meet in daily life.
I will pass out 100 such cards this Easter season, each including a gift card valued between $25-$50.
People are really moved when they receive such cards from random strangers…
I think your assessment is spot on, but how can a broken church heal a broken world? The Church needs to be under one banner before the world will listen to our message.
We need to return to prayer—bold prayers and effective prayers. I sense the Holy Spirit is raising up prayer warriors even now. Let us be found faithful. Reading the hermit- Marie Theresa Coombs books on prayer and spiritual direction is a great way to grow in your spiritual journey. Lord, hear our prayers 🙏✝️
Coexist seems to be the message from all churches and = false unity = nothing changes because nothing can change with a unity that is fabricated.
Jesus Christ is the Truth and may He have mercy on us all.
Fr. Calvin, may God continue to bless your work. You are not alone. Your labor is not in vain. Take heart, our Redeemer lives!
Just curious… Have you read much Leslie Newbigin? He offers a unique perspective as an English theologian that served as a bishop in the east. If you have read his work, what is your take on his assessment of the West and suggestions for a corrective course of action?
Amen! Great read and I am praying over these individuals you mentioned, that the Holy Spirit will work in their lives to draw them to know our Savior. Contend for the Faith - it is the only source of Joy, peace and hope for our world
Hello Calvin I saw your video in 2022 on being cancelled by the cofe I was in the anglican church as a boy & then moved to a pentecostal church. We've also been part of a baptist church & are now back at a local elim church. Re praying for muslims I see your point but I myself have prayed for muslims during ramadan. My prayer has been that they would have a REAL encounter with God or our Lord Jesus & know him fully & the truth of the Gospel. Apperently Jesus has appeared to muslims who were on a pilgramage to mecca. Keep up the good work in standing for God & the truth🙂🙏
Calvin pray that my city Oslo will get a routine Latin Mass. Loved the article!
Amen!
The Catholic heresy of Mohammedanism
This is an interesting phrase. Does this mean that Islam is somehow a distorted version of Catholicism?
Absolutely. https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/heresy-of-mohammed-10817
Agreed. People have always noted that similarities between Islam and Arianism, so it can be argued that Islam is a Christian heresy. But the Christians who were in the region of the birth of Islam were mainly Orthodox or Nestorian, not Catholic.
Great article otherwise.
You have quite a few opinions regarding the CoE but you are not Anglican but rather Old Catholic with a different bishop(s). One of the problems with those advocating for an ancient Christianity (The Great Tradition) is we need to mind the right door in which we enter it. To enter by no door (RC, EO, Protestant) is to have no standing and no piety. It is to be neo-modern in a way which isn’t even realized.
Greece last month was the first Othodox Christian country to legalise Gay Marriage. There is something deeply floored in Christianity. Liberalism has been able to water it down and then capture it.
We will need more than Religion to save the West.
Christians are at the moment propping up the post 1945 Liberal paradigm (which is destroying the West) and are not challenging it.
Classical Liberalism is a key part of the problem.
Hello Calvin
I'm an admirer of your work and zeal for the Lord.
Christendom cannot return to western society, this is prophecy and Matthew 24 highlights profoundly many hearts will grow cold. Off course, this doesn't mean we should disregard Apostolic succession and holy orders but at the same time we need to realise we are going into a new age of the church.
There will always be a remnant, invisible or visible universal church. Evangelising in a post modern Western world us very challenging when you have a society of people who enjoy their false democratic freedom's of inclusion and equality, a society who always has to be a victim and never own up to bring sinners!!!
Modern youth rarely want to swallow the pill of repentance and sin no more!!!
Let's look at the positives, Christianity is flourishing in Asia and Africa.
UK while it's secular, will never become an Islamic state. Muslims are struggling to keep their believers orthadox just as much as the Catholics, most are just Muslim in name and culture only.
Moving forward, let's pray for our church leaders and try to be the salt of the Earth so people can see the way of Jesus is the only truth and light.
Ecumenical dialogue with Christians need to continue and we should all try to be part of the Priest hood of believers and seek gifts of the spirits that only priests and monks had prior to the holiness revival.
The new church age is Charismatic, St Padre Pio, St Francis of Assisi and St Anthony of Padova all prayed in tongues and now this gift is available to all of us.
Pope Frances confirms this!!!! Let's take back the power collectively and use this to glorify Christ's name through signs and wonders.
Let's avoid the Heresy of Calvinism and seek t9 save every soul rather than the elect few!!!
Daniel Millar