For Ash Wednesday — “Common”
Added Monday 23rd February 2009
- With Thy sweet care before me I will lie
Naked and weak, emptied of all my pride,
As open to remorse as I should be
Who crowned Thy sacred head and pierced Thy side. - Thus, here I kneel enhumbled and en-ashed
With the same palm that spoke my treachery,
Shrunken yet shrouded in my self regard
Frightened of Thy tormentor I would see. - Yet with thy naked wounds before my face,
I shall my passions flay, my lusts expose,
To grow as helpless as the manger babe
And bleed with Thee beneath our common cross.
On women bishops, Carey says asking liberals to accommodate traditional Catholics and Evangelicals is "A big Ask"
Added Thursday 19th February 2009
Kevin Carey, calling for the Measure on the consecration of women bishops to be sent for legislative review said that liberals were being asked: "...to make room in the Church of England for people on the one hand who want to undo the Reformation and those on the other hand who want to undo the Elizabethan settlement; it's a big ask. We will do our best."
You can read a paraphrased version of the speech.
Compline for Shrove Tuesday
Added Tuesday 17th February 2009
Take some time out from making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday to say Compline, the "night office". Kevin Carey has written a special Compline for Shrove Tuesday, with responses, psalms and readings.