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Anglican Ascetic
Homilies, teachings, and interviews from your host, Father Matthew C. Dallman, Obl.S.B., who is the leading authority on the theology of Martin Thornton, student of the Venerable S. Bede, and founder of Akenside Institute for English Spirituality. Fr Dallman is an Anglican priest: Rector of Saint Paul's, New Smyrna Beach, in Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida.
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Episodes
Anglican AsceticThe Womb of the Upper Room Went Boom
And so the womb of the Upper Room went boom. To those that believe in Christ, to those who abide in Him, to those who keep His commandments, Jesus said “Out of…
Anglican AsceticOn the Womb of the Upper Room
Keeping in our Liturgy the Vigil of Pentecost, as distinct from the feast day of Pentecost itself, means we are in this Mass participating in the fermenting…
Anglican AsceticEvenings with Bede: Episode 11
Evenings With Bede are taken from the Sunday solemn Plainsong Evensong services of Saint Paul’s, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., where I am Rector. The format is a…
Anglican AsceticJoyfully Adoring the Bridegroom
Having passed into the season of Ascensiontide, and on this Sunday after the Ascension fittingly called “Upper Room Sunday,” for we are with the 120 apostles…
Anglican AsceticOn Loving the Bridegroom
As we have heard this Eastertide the prayer of the Bridegroom, let us hear two portions of it again. Firstly: Behold, the Bridegroom comes at midnight, and…
Anglican AsceticEvenings with Bede: S1, Ep. 10
Evenings With Bede are taken from the Sunday solemn Plainsong Evensong services of Saint Paul’s, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., where I am Rector. The format is a…
Anglican AsceticOn the Bridegroom Finding Us Heedless
To begin today I will again read the prayer that was used during Holy Week Liturgy on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It is this: Behold, the Bridegroom comes…
Anglican AsceticEvenings with Bede: S1, Ep. 9
Evenings With Bede are taken from the Sunday solemn Plainsong Evensong services of Saint Paul’s, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., where I am Rector. The format is a…
Anglican AsceticOn the Shepherdly Love of the Bridegroom
The Eastertide reflections are on the Holy Week services of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. And the dominant image of the Liturgy on those days was Our Lord…
Anglican AsceticEvenings with Bede: S1, Ep. 8
Evenings With Bede are taken from the Sunday solemn Plainsong Evensong services of Saint Paul’s, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., where I am Rector. The format is a…
Anglican AsceticOn the Suffering of the Bridegroom
As I explained last Sunday, again this Easter season the preaching will be mystagogical on an aspect of Holy Week just past. To preach that way means to look…
Anglican AsceticEvenings with Bede: S1, Ep. 7
Evenings With Bede are taken from the Sunday solemn Plainsong Evensong services of Saint Paul’s, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., where I am Rector. The format is a…
Anglican AsceticOn the Woundedness of the Bridegroom
Saint John tells that we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey His commandments. And John goes on to say, “This is the love of God…
Anglican AsceticEvenings with Bede: S1, Ep. 6
Evenings With Bede are taken from the Sunday solemn Plainsong Evensong services of Saint Paul’s, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., for which I am Rector. The format is a…
Anglican AsceticThe Wonders of This Most Glorious Day
“I will stand on my watch, mounted upon the rock,” says the wondrous prophet Habakkuk, and I also will stand with you this today, by the authority and vision…
Anglican AsceticChrist is Risen, and the Angels Rejoice!
Are there any who are devout lovers of God? Let them enjoy this beautiful bright festival! Are there any who are grateful servants? Let them rejoice and enter…
Anglican AsceticOn Our Lord's Washing of Feet
When Saint John the Evangelist was going to write about the mystery of our Lord, in which He deigned to wash the feet of His disciples at the Passover meal…
Anglican AsceticEvenings with Bede: S1, Ep. 5
Evenings With Bede are taken from the Sunday solemn Plainsong Evensong services of Saint Paul’s, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., of which I am Rector. The format is…
Anglican AsceticMeeting Christ as He Enters Jerusalem
Today we have gathered to meet Christ on the Mount of Olives. Today He returns from Bethany and proceeds of His own free will toward His holy and blessed…
Anglican AsceticOn the Raising of Lazarus
Note: It is an ancient liturgical tradition to celebrate on the day before Palm Sunday our Lord’s raising of Lazarus from the dead. My parish celebrates this…
Anglican AsceticEvenings with Bede: S1, Ep. 4
Evenings With Bede are taken from the Sunday solemn Plainsong Evensong services of Saint Paul’s, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., for which I am Rector. The format is a…
Anglican AsceticOn the Pride of Life
You hear sometimes about the sin of Satan, the sin of the Devil. And with that sometimes is spoken the pride of Satan, the pride of the Devil. One might think…
Anglican AsceticEvenings with Bede: S1, Ep. 3
Evenings With Bede are taken from the Sunday solemn Plainsong Evensong services in my parish. The format is simple: first is a Scripture passage, second is a…
Anglican AsceticOn the Word Becoming Bread
In the Rector forum sessions this Lent, we have been reflecting on the beginning verses of the Gospel according to St John. These comprise what is called…
Anglican AsceticEvenings with Bede: S1, Ep. 2
Evenings With Bede come from the Sunday solemn Plainsong Evensong services in my parish. It is a simple format: first is the Scripture passage, second is the…
Anglican AsceticOn Concupiscence of the Eyes
I will continue today to reflect on the topic of concupiscence. This has become a low-key sermon series, it seems. To begin let us marvel that Saint Paul…
Anglican AsceticEvenings with Bede: S1, Ep. 1
Introducing a new weekly feature here on the Orthodox-Catholic Anglican. It is called: Evenings With Bede. These will come from the Sunday Evensong services in…
Anglican AsceticOn Concupiscence of the Flesh
I want to continue the Lenten reflection about concupiscence, what the Prayer Book calls “wretchedness.” Before getting into that, I find it such a poignant…
Anglican AsceticOn Concupiscence
I want to reflect today on the meaning of “wretchedness” which is part of the Collect for all of Lent. Before I do, let us hear again that “the Spirit” drove…
Anglican AsceticOn the Light of Christ's Holy Name
As our prayer moves into the season of Lent, Saint Peter wants us and all the Church to know that the experience of Christ transfigured was for him, James and…
Anglican AsceticOn Being Healed
The healing of Saint Peter’s mother-in-law must have been a pretty big deal to warrant its coming down through the decades of oral tradition after the Passion…
Anglican AsceticOn the Conversion of Paul and Sacred Scripture
There can be no question that Saint Paul the Apostle is among the group of Saints whose life and intercession for us is most fundamental to Christian life…
Anglican AsceticOn Being Called by Jesus Christ
How each Evangelist begins his account of the Gospel of Jesus Christ our Saviour is something to study. In Mark’s account, after his description of S. John…
Anglican AsceticOn Beholding Christ's Glory and Power
We prayed in our Collect that our Savior Jesus Christ is the light of the world. This is because in His light only are we able to perceive the uncreated light…
Anglican AsceticOn Descending Like As a Dove upon Jesus
Such a brief bit of Scripture accounts for this Feast of the Baptism of Jesus Christ. Yet all four Evangelists testify to this event, and for Matthew, Mark…
Anglican AsceticOn Christ's Eternal Divinity
Now that we have acknowledged and celebrated in our Divine Liturgy the birth of time of the Mediator between God the Father and human beings, the man Jesus…
Anglican AsceticWith the Angels, Let Us Rejoice
My dear brothers and sisters, our Saviour is born this day. With the angels, let us rejoice! Sadness should find no place on this the birth day of Life Itself…
Anglican AsceticChrist is born!
My dear brothers and sisters, Christ is born; let us give glory. Christ is from the heavens, let us go to meet Him. Christ is on the earth, let us be lifted…
Anglican AsceticOn Gabriel's Manner of Addressing Mary
“Most highly favored, Lady,” was part of the refrain we sang in the praise of Mary in the hymn preceding the Holy Gospel. We did so, in the words of the hymn…
Anglican AsceticOn Imitating S. John Baptist
There is an axiom in the Church about the Saints. And that axiom is: the Saints are always to be admired, and when possible, imitated. This applies to all…
Anglican AsceticOn Advent and Watching
[Note: the audio recording above will vary in places from the prepared text below.] We hear holy words from our Lord Jesus today. He is speaking to Peter…
Anglican AsceticOn the Parable of the Ten Maidens
[Note: the audio recording above will vary in places from the prepared text below.] Continuing our reflections on Stewardship given the season, we turn our…
Anglican AsceticOn Communion with the Saints
Our understanding of the doctrine of the Saints comes from a single verse from S. Jude’s Epistle. He wrote of the importance of preserving the fullness of the…
Anglican AsceticAudio file of Our Father prayer, chanted
This is for the parishioners of my parish, as a reference of how to chant the Our Father prayer, which we will begin to do during the 10 am Mass this Sunday, 5…
Anglican AsceticOn Being God's Coin of Love
[Note: the audio recording above will vary in places from the prepared text below.] One of the images of Stewardship that I shared last Sunday was to see…
Anglican AsceticOn Being God's Coin
[Note: the audio recording above will vary in places from the prepared text below.] On this Stewardship Sunday, I want not only to reflect on Christian…
Anglican AsceticOn Personal Devotion to Christ
[Note: the audio recording above will vary in places from the prepared text below.] I want to reflect today on the first verse from Saint Paul’s Epistle to the…
Anglican AsceticOn the Ministry of Angels
[Note: the audio recording above will vary in places from the prepared text below.] It has become cliché in our days for preachers to observe that among the…
Anglican AsceticOn Being a Living Sacrifice
“Get behind me Satan” is a heck of a thing for Jesus to say. It is a heck of a thing for Our Lord to say to anyone, I think; but especially shocking for Him to…
Anglican AsceticOn S. Peter and Justification by Faith
[Note: the audio recording above will vary in places from the prepared text below.] Saint Peter’s confession is what we hear today in the Gospel, and I will…
Anglican AsceticOn Jesus and the Canaanite Woman
[Note: the audio recording above will vary in places from the prepared text below.] It is a common approach to preaching to begin the sermon with a joke. Share…
Anglican AsceticOn Knowing Christ's Power and Might
In the Sundays prior to the Transfiguration, we heard a number of Our Lord Jesus’ parables about the kingdom of heaven. Being that the Kingdom of Heaven (or…
Anglican AsceticOn the Transfiguration and Mountain-Climbing
[Note: the audio recording above will vary in places from the prepared text below. Also, much of the substance of this homily in indebted to Aidan Hart and his…
Anglican AsceticOn the Parables of the Holy Spirit
[Note: the audio recording above will vary in places from the prepared text below.] How the Holy Spirit actually works upon the Church and upon disciples of…
Anglican AsceticOn Wheat Parishes and Weed Parishes
[Note: the audio recording above will vary in places from the prepared text below.] Last Sunday I offered up a reading of the Parable of the Sower in which the…
Anglican AsceticOn Parishes and the Parable of the Sower
In Isaiah 29, thus says the Lord: “This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.” This again teaches us something fundamental about…
Anglican AsceticOn Resting in Christ
Our Lord’s invitation to us today is so compelling and inviting to hear. He says, “Come to Me, all you labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”…
Anglican AsceticOn Our Lord Bringing Not Peace but a Sword
We hear today our Lord giving us a hard saying, and so I will spend this time reflecting on how to properly understand it. The hard saying comes at the very…
Anglican AsceticOn Speaking with Fire about Jesus Christ
We hear today our Lord Jesus giving instruction to the Twelve about Mission. His instruction to them, here and elsewhere in the Gospel accounts, is always for…
Anglican AsceticSaint Romuald and the Domestic Church
Offered on the Memorial of Saint Romuald (19 June, 2019) in the Lady Chapel of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame…