Fr Matthew C. Dallman, Obl.S.B.
@FrMCDallman
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husband ☆ homeschooling papa of 6 ☆ Anglican Rector: ☆ founder: ☆ teacher of priests ☆ student of S. Bede ☆ sourdough baker
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This beautiful and dramatic photo from the May 2022 Consecration Mass of Brian Burgess as the Bishop of Springfield is amazing. It was taken by my wife
@MystagogicalB
, and made the cover of an ecclesiastical magazine. And, profoundly,》
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My eldest daughter Twyla finished today her first Icon: the one she started in England this past September with Aidan Hart!
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No joke: everyone needs to listen to this 30-min speech by James Lindsay
@ConceptualJames
. It is a lucid explanation of the big picture as well as our task to fight back against illiberal cultural revolution.
“Woke is Marxism evolved to take on The West…”
The most brilliant description of our modern cultural sickness… this 30 min video is worth every second.
We are in a struggle for the future of humanity: Awaken yourself to the malevolent reality of Woke.
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Donald Allchin: "Anglicans are heirs to a tradition of which at present they are often almost unaware. There is here a need for a recovery of memory, which will allow for a recovery of identity."
("Anglican Spirituality," in The Study of Anglicanism, p. 361)
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My eldest's first attempt at drawing the Theotokos and Christ.
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"Equity is an administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so that citizens are made equal, including shares of social and cultural capital. In other words, it’s an expansion of socialism."
@ConceptualJames
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"I think all of the episcopacy are lefty liberals. Therefore, there’s a massive amount of the flock that are feeling neglected. If I’m there offering a different perspective, it actually adds a bit of balance." —
@calvinrobinson
👏👏👏
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Amen
@calvinrobinson
: "I pray that we all find the strength and courage we need to stop lying. To stop affirming people’s fantasies and instead be kind enough and loving enough to speak the truth to people at all times."
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All are invited to be transformed.
Yes!
“🏳️🌈Love is love!”
“🏳️⚧️Jesus loves everyone”
Yes, but he expects us to repent of our sins.
Christ spent time with sinners, but the sinners went away changed, not Christ.
Church is inclusive, all are welcome to be changed through an experience with Christ.
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On this day in 1966, the Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI met in Rome. It was the first time an Archbishop of Canterbury had formally visited the Vatican in 400 years.
The Pope gave Ramsey a chalice and his archepiscopal ring. This act itself was an
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Wonderful for Twyla and I to meet Deacon Calvin Robinson for lunch whilst in London for the day.
@calvinrobinson
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Actual Anglican view:
There is one Church, which is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. And this one Church lives in several historical-sacramental traditions, and Anglican is one of those.
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Our icon wall in the room where my Anglican family chants Matins and Evensong daily, and has family dinner.
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If you cannot preach amid crying children, you misunderstood the vocation God has given you.
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Anglican laity need to be taught that the Church Fathers are a vital
source of authority in the interpretation of Holy Scripture.
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Every time
an Anglican
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as "Protestant"
an Angel
loses
his
wings.
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What an appalling embarrassment.
Doors open soon for our second Silent Disco evening 🎧💃🕺
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Anglicanism, for its many strengths, also has significant areas of weaknesses and distortion. We have looked to Rome to remedy some of them (hence, Anglo-Catholicism); yet the process of looking to, and learning from, Orthodoxy is still unfolding, with much work yet to do.
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"If Mary no longer finds a place in many theologies and ecclesiologies, the reason is obvious: they have reduced faith to an abstraction. And an abstraction does not need a Mother."
(Joseph Ratzinger)
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This is my favorite mug: as I reflect on all the crosses of Jesus, I am filled with hope, consolation, and thrown into prayer. Plus, there is usually coffee inside.
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Inside and outside my church tonight for Evensong.
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"Why are Gnostic cults so tempting? Why do people get sucked into them? It’s not because Gnostics go around telling people they’re wrong. It’s because they go around telling people they’re *limited*. Your beliefs, maybe in science, spirituality, Christianity, politics, or
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I was sick in bed this morning, so my four teenager daughters carried on chanting Matins without me. I was told everything went well, not that I am surprised, as we have been doing this for almost seven years.
#DomesticAbbey
In addition to the normal Office rubrics, we include a
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"An abusive tactic commonly used by abusers...DARVO is an acronym that means 'Deny, Attack, Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender,' and it is very common with narcissists, psychopaths, and borderline personalities."
@ConceptualJames
@NewDiscourses
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My eldest daughter Twyla's latest pencil iconography study
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"When I say I’m an Anglican, this is what I mean."
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I am a fan of this edition of the Coverdale translation with corrections according to the Septuagint. And I made a bookmark for a weekly reading plan of all 150 psalms.
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A blessed Feast of the Presentation/Entrance of the Lord in the Temple!
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Twyla drew this icon of the Theotokos tonight during family pizzeria.
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A blessed feast — and anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood.
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Exactly. The BCP (of whatever iteration) is the equivalent in Anglican parochial life to the Rule of S. Benedict in Benedictine monastic life. Ignoring or suppressing the BCP rips the beating heart out of Anglican identity.
@FrMCDallman
Can you imagine a Benedictine monastery throwing out the "The Rule of St. Benedict" ? It wouldn't be long and they would no longer be Benedictine.
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Happy Easter! from me and the plainsong crew, my teenage daughters Isadora, Marla, Twyla, and Oona, after completing the 27th Holy Week service for
Of the 27 services over 9 days, 17 were plainsong: 8 Matins, 8 Evensong, and 1 Tenebrae.
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Hence, I do think that the most serious problem in Anglicanism is that the Church of England, our mother church, by and large does not use the Book of Common Prayer.
Anglican primarily means being in a jurisdiction in communion with other jurisdictions that uses the Book of Common Prayer (of whatever iteration) as a liturgical and ascetical system. The basis for Anglican identity is the Prayer Book as corporate system.
Secondarily, it means
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A blessed feast of the Venerable S. Bede, patriarch of English spirituality.
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Essay that argues "dismantling Woke notions of 'Lived Experiences' may be the single most effective means of preserving the integrity of liberal democratic institutions from Woke encroachment."
@ConceptualJames
@NewDiscourses
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Because there is no question God has called me and my family into the Episcopal Church to embody an orthodox-catholic witness, amid the ruins, and to help rebuild.
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Anglican Priests and Bishops need to spend the next several decades recasting the magisterium (teaching authority) of Anglicanism to accord with, and be recognizable to, wider Holy Tradition.
Meaning, we need to teach and rediscover that historic sources of authority, besides
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Aidan Hart: "If our worship consists just in words and we worship in front of blank walls, there is a real danger that we see life in Christ as a set of laws, as a moral code. But icons continually remind us that life is relationship, is face-to-face encounter,》
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"It is a distortion of the apostolic doctrine to say that men are *first* united to Christ, through faith, with an invisible society of the truly faithful, and *then* find admission to the visible Church. The right order is not: Christ—faithful individuals—the Church; but:
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Let's say the quiet part out loud:
The closest thing the Episcopal Church has to a functioning magisterium is the Church Pension Fund.
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Wonderful to assist at the sung Mass according to the 1662 BCP as part of today's meeting of the
@prayerbook_soc
in Chichester Cathedral. And especially cool for Fr Ian Edgar and I to see Bradley Smith, who shared with us some of the highlights of his recent pilgrimage to the
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Me with our older preschool students and faculty this past Ash Wednesday: a 20-min liturgy that I put together of prayer, song, scripture, sermon, and ashing. Went well!
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Thank you to the many who have welcomed me back to Twitter.
To those happy to see me leave, sorry to disappoint you.
And to those Protestants who LARP as Anglicans, I have only begun to fight, both against your positions, and for the Anglican expression of the one true Church,
I chose to take a break and considered deleting my account.
No one asked me to do so.
I decided to return in a more limited way, allowing only people I follow to be able to comment.
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My 6-yr-old son, just now: "Mom just so you know, I like these icons."
Mom: "Which ones?"
Him: "The ones that we have."
[Narrator: There are over 75 icons in our house.]
#Winning
#AnglicansNeedIcons
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Photographs from the S. Photios Shrine in St Augustine, Fla.
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I very much enjoyed this extended interview with
@calvinrobinson
and commend it to you for its overall tone of thoughtfulness and Gospel proclamation.
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My children after our Vigil Mass of the Nativity of Jesus Christ.
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If you aren't reading daily from this, and you are Anglican, then find a remedy ASAP.
St. Gregory of Nyssa: “‘He is our peace, who has made both one.’ … The definition of peace is that there should be harmony between two opposed factions. And so, when the civil war in our nature has been brought to an end and we are at peace within ourselves, we may become peace.
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“The Anglican Communion, with its fellowship of Churches, has a special responsibility at this time in the world. We have no doctrine of our own—we only possess the Catholic doctrine of the Catholic Church enshrined in the Catholic creeds, and those creeds we hold without
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Anglican parish priests:
If you are not regularly waist-deep in the Church Fathers (at least!), then despite your good intentions, you very well might be part of the problem.
#Spicy
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Our wall of apostles in our home is complete! This room is both for family meals and family chanting of Matins and Evensong every day.
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Shrovetide family setup for daily Anglican Matins and Evensong chanted in plainsong.
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Ven. S. Bede: "He put on flesh so that He might put on us the strength of the Spirit; He descended from heaven to earth so that He might elevate us from earth to heaven."
(Homily 1.6)
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Fr Thornton: "[The first trait of the English School is] an extraordinary consistency in maintaining the speculative-affective synthesis; the theological and the emotional, doctrine and devotion, fact and feeling. This, I suggest, is the deepest meaning of the Anglican via media,
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A blessed feast of S. Lucy! Her feast marks my priesthood anniversary, as well.
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Ahead of chanting Evensong on Holy Innocents Day with my family.
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My basic attitude is that a retooled and rebuilt Anglicanism can live and thrive today and in the years to come as part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, but that Protestantism as such is as a boat nearly sunk because of breached hull.
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"LGBTQ+ priests now make up about one in four in The Episcopal Church. Men outnumber women as priests, but women are being ordained at growing rates, especially as bishops."
Has NOTHING to do with the decline, I am sure
"The number of congregations has dropped from about 7,000 in 2010 to under 6,300 in 2021, the last year of full parochial report data, and the denomination has shed more than 350,000 members in that time, down from about 1.9 million. Sunday attendance also has steadily declined.
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My parish prepared for Evensong and Mass for Christmas Eve.
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My eldest's latest exercise: using the icon on the right as a visual template for her free-hand drawing on the left.
#iconography
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Anglican parish priests, irrespective of jurisdiction, who are not able to talk at length about the Book of Common Prayer as a spiritual and ascetical system constitute the primary source of Anglican disease.
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Nothing about this is Catholic. A clear example that woke Christianity shares a vocabulary with the Church, but uses a different dictionary.
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Prepared for plainsong Matins at home with my family according to the Book of Common Prayer.
#Anglican
#OrthodoxTheology
#CatholicReligion
#EnglishSpirituality
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Anglican primarily means being in a jurisdiction in communion with other jurisdictions that uses the Book of Common Prayer (of whatever iteration) as a liturgical and ascetical system. The basis for Anglican identity is the Prayer Book as corporate system.
Secondarily, it means
The wildest thing is "Anglican" kinda doesn't explain what someone believes. Imo most consistent form is a broadly "reformed catholic" tradition that accepts the articles and ordinal and 1662 BCP, but like, someone can say they're anglican and it can mean 638272 different things
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Aidan Hart: "The miracle was not therefore so much that Christ was transfigured, but that He had hidden 'the blinding light' of His divinity for most of His earthly life. He did not wish to compel people to follow Him but wanted His words of life to speak for themselves and for
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My son said, "Papa, we could build a Cathedral."
Truthfully, he did most of this, and all of the front.
Not pictured: the sacristy, also of my son's ceeation.
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Eight years ago I made this for Sunday coffee hour after Mass at our sending parish outside Chicago, on the occasion of Lammas Day. And people ate it!
(With gratitude to
@ClerkofOxford
who made me aware of the Lammas Day tradition in the first place.)
Today is Lammas, an Anglo-Saxon harvest festival celebrated on 1 August. The name comes from 'hlafmæsse', 'loaf-mass', a feast of bread - it may have been a day for blessing loaves of bread made from the first wheat of the harvest.
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Nine years I ago accepted Rowan Williams' invitation to meet with him at his home in Cambridge to discuss Fr Martin Thornton and his theology.
I also did not have a beard then.
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Among the things "orthodox-catholic" means:
• regenerating grace in Baptism >>> conversion experience
• need for growth in sanctification (asceticism) >>> doctrine of assurance
• need for a morally earnest life >>> low emphasis on good works as such
• the Church is the
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Welcome Hildegard Kay Dallman, our sixth child.
Born 7:18 am, 5 Nov.
Mama
@MystagogicalB
and Hilda are doing great.
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"God is a hearer, not of the voice, but of the heart."
Lancelot Andrewes
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It is so funny to me that just because I hold to a (very minority) orthodox-catholic witness within the (admittedly ruinous) Episcopal Church, Roman Catholic people think I secretly want to turn Roman. Would be difficult to be further from the truth!
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A.M. Allchin: "Anglicans are heirs to a tradition of which at present they are often almost unaware. There is here a need for a recovery of memory, which will allow for a recovery of identity."
("Anglican Spirituality," in The Study of Anglicanism, p. 361)
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The Saint Paul’s Plainsong Choir, having finished 2nd Evensong of Easter Day, the 26th and final parish service over the last nine days.
Alleluia! He is risen!
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My youngest stood up to give her testimony after Evensong. Almost felt like Asbury redux!
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A blessed feast of S. John the Apostle and Theologian, and Third Day of Christmastide!
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My eldest daughter Twyla's latest pencil study.
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My eldest daughter Twyla's latest monochrome iconography study.
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Recent library acquisition. A pre-WW1 Anglo-Catholic gem!
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For comfort? Most definitely not this!
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