Earth & Altar Blog

Intimacies, Sexual and Otherwise

By Fr. Mark Perkins Under the "Clergy Education" section, I have added an article that considers avenues of fruitful theological...

Catholic Evangelism and Youth Ministry

By Fr. Mark Perkins The following is an adapted footnote -- I love footnotes; the footnote is a literary genre unto itself; you should...

Preparing for a Good Death with Simeon

By: Fr. Sean McDermott The Gospel reading for Trinity X (this coming Sunday) recounts Jesus’ visitation to the Temple after his...

The Lectionary and "The Young Tractarians"

By Fr. Mark Perkins As most of the readers of this blog probably already know, the one-year lectionary of biblical readings — such as...

What is Holy Order Anyways?

I was ordained to the diaconate on March 25, 2017 here at All Saints in Charlottesville. Like many major events in our lives, it is hard...

Video of Instructional Mass

Fr. Wade Miller shared this video with us at Earth & Altar. Instructional Masses are very difficult to do. How do you celebrate the Mass...

DEUS Synod Recap and Review

By Fr. Sean McDermott Here at Earth & Altar, the DEUS Synod was busy and fruitful. We had been appointed to give the plenary talks along...

Prayer in the life of an Anglo-Catholic

Bishop Chandler Jones considers the role and practice of prayer: Your desire to enter more deeply into the life of prayer and mystical...

Prayer as Athletics

Fr. Glenn Spencer compares prayer to athletics: In basketball season we get excited over our favorite university. The colors come out, we...

How I Prepare a Sermon

Fr. Glenn Spencer analyzes his process of preparing a sermon. 1) This is the beginning: I read the text several times as soon as...

Baptism Liturgy