tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post3373627730164096383..comments2023-10-25T04:22:54.910-07:00Comments on An Anglican Priest: The Ruminations of a Canterbury Cap Catholic: Icons, shrines, and AnglicanismRev. Dr. Hasserthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14350737386756722887noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-81373152970342867052014-06-02T20:43:55.833-07:002014-06-02T20:43:55.833-07:00Anne,
I'm glad you found the blog and have fo...Anne,<br /><br />I'm glad you found the blog and have found encouragement in what I've written. I'll try to write something new in the near future. <br /><br />DH+Rev. Dr. Hasserthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14350737386756722887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-63589274877664054682014-05-30T21:14:39.462-07:002014-05-30T21:14:39.462-07:00Dear Rev. Hassert, I want to take this moment to s...Dear Rev. Hassert, I want to take this moment to say how much I've enjoyed and been blessed by your blog. I only discovered it about a week ago, and as a young person only recently confirmed in the Anglican Church in America (in the surrounding darkness that is Massachusetts) -- I've found your writing so encouraging. Thank you. I hope you write more in the near future!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08819513817339301952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-19820685500461592272013-07-23T08:24:30.851-07:002013-07-23T08:24:30.851-07:00GReat piece, Father thanks! GReat piece, Father thanks! Lance Goldsberryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14879155835710730884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-17277059432282411722013-03-11T19:02:04.369-07:002013-03-11T19:02:04.369-07:00Excellent!Excellent!Death Bredonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09551340241330202420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-40143672844510663402013-03-11T19:01:19.333-07:002013-03-11T19:01:19.333-07:00Excellent.Excellent.Death Bredonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09551340241330202420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-59332607350858386552013-03-09T16:11:01.450-08:002013-03-09T16:11:01.450-08:00Rev. Hassert:
Thank you for your blog.
Imagery i...Rev. Hassert:<br /><br />Thank you for your blog.<br /><br />Imagery is one of those points on which I am conflicted. While I am not opposed to imagery; I am wary of it. I am both sympathetic to the veneration of images in the Eastern and Roman Churches, but shocked by the excessiveness of it. I once watched a small girl methodically kiss every one of dozens of icons in an Eastern Church. I do not think you have to look hard to find superstitious use of imagery in either of these Churches. Although both teach that worship of images is a sin, they both allow an amazing amount of what appears to be idolatry; e.g., crowning of statues and icons, offering incense to them, kissing of them, prostrations before them, etc. <br /> <br />On the other hand I bow before the cross or altar before entering my pew, I bow as the processional cross passes, and I bow my head at the name of Jesus, and I sometimes kiss my crucifix or icon. The problem is that idolatry comes from within; only God can judge it, but it seems that the Church has an obligation to discourage it rather than promote it. The Eastern and Roman Churches do not appear to discourage it with sufficient vigor.<br /><br />I am reminded of the brazen serpent or Nehushtan, created at God’s command to Moses in the wilderness, but destroyed by Hezekiah.<br /><br />2 Kings18:<br />1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.<br /> <br />2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.<br /> <br />3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.<br /> <br />4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.<br /><br />It certainly was not considered an idol when it was created, but it became one. “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field…,” 1.Genesis 3:1.<br /><br />In Christ,<br />CCarter Glass<br /><br />Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14325547071171699272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-86868632081709071992013-03-04T07:30:11.067-08:002013-03-04T07:30:11.067-08:00Well done Fr Well done Fr The Rev John X. Lealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15201709016944820740noreply@blogger.com