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  • Scottish Episcopal Kalendar 2024

    For years now, I’ve produced a Kalendar for the Scottish Episcopal Church with all the bible readings set out for the year.

    This year’s Kalendar is available online so that anyone can download it and print it out for themselves.
    It is available right here: Kalendar 2024

    Anyone who would like to make a donation because they enjoy the Kalendar so much and want to encourage me to keep doing it is welcome to do so via paypal.

    Alternatively, anyone who wishes to purchase a printed copy can do so here: Buy a Kalendar

One response to “What should ecumenical and interfaith dialogue actually be about?”

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    Bro David

    I’m guessing that you have never read any of the Roman church’s official documents on ecuminism. The Roman concept of ecumenism is that it’s sole purpose and intended outcome is that everyone will accept the Bishop of Rome as the Vicar of Christ and return to the only true Church on the earth.

    Nothing less than that is exceptible. Which is why when a so called ecumenical partner church in dialog with the Roman church does something such as ordaining women to the priesthood and consecrating them as bishops or embracing same gender marriage, the Romans start lamenting how it’s a waste of their time to carry on with the dialog. Because as long as the other church does such things, they will never return to the fold.

    As for interfaith dialog, as long as you keep it to polite dinner conversation, your OK. But the conservative Christians come unglued if you invite them into your building or worse, plan any kind of an interfaith service. An example would be the comments when Father Bosco wrote on an interfaith concert that was to be mounted in the Dio Nelson NZ Cathedral;
    http://liturgy.co.nz/nelson-cathedral-bans-tolerance-concert

    Or any similar topic that we have covered at the Lead on Episcopal Cafe.

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