Wise Words on Wednesday: Better than 100 sermons
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Month: September 2015
Unity, Liberty, Charity
I was recently involved in a Facebook discussion where someone attributed the following quotation to St. Augustine:
“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; and, in all things, charity”
I have previously heard these attributed to St. Augustine, but I had always been extremely doubtful of its origin. After commenting to this effect, someone else on the thread said he thought it was John Wesley, which sounded a bit more like it. However, after some digging, I found a post which confirmed that it definitely wasn’t Wesley.
After further research, I found that many people attributed these words to a relatively obscure German Lutheran theologian from the seventeenth century named Rupertus Meldenius, also known as Peter Meiderlin), who wrote a tract on Christian Unity (1627). However, after further digging, it appears that the earliest usage of the phrase is in 1617 by Marco Antonio de Dominis, Archbishop of Split, in his anti-Papal work “De Republica Ecclesiastica”.
Music Monday: Holy Spirit
Something a little different for the final Music Monday of the month. Here’s “Holy Spirit (you are welcome here)” performed (mostly) acapella by David Wesley:
There’s nothing worth more that will ever come close
No thing can compare, You’re our living hope
Your presence, Lord
I’ve tasted and seen of the sweetest of loves
Where my heart becomes free and my shame is undone
Your presence, Lord
Holy Spirit, You are welcome here
Come flood this place and fill the atmosphere
Your glory, God, is what our hearts long for
To be overcome by Your presence, Lord
I’ve tasted and seen, of the sweetest of loves
Where my heart becomes free, and my shame is undone
By Your presence, Lord
Let us become more aware of Your presence
Let us experience the glory of Your goodness
Explaining Purgatory
Another great blog from Douglas Beaumont. I also heard he’s going to be on Journey Home soon!
More Internet Mythicism
A while ago Labarum had a great post which looked at a typical mythicist post on the Internet…
Friday Frivolity: A whole lot of memes…
Memes make a regular appearance for Friday Frivolity, but today there’s a whole bunch. ChurchPop has a collection of 21 of the best recent memes. Please click on the picture below…
“Lead Kindly Light” Poster
I’ve been playing around with the graphics program Canva recently and if you’ve looked at the Restless Pilgrim Facebook page recently, you’ll have seen the fruit of this.
One of the graphics I produced has been particularly popular so I thought I’d share a high resolution version of it here on the blog, together with a printable PDF version. I’ve also made a version for the iPhone “Locked” Screen.
