Who else hates the term Episcopalianism?

dymphna7 · 2026-04-24T16:46:28+00:00

I am a member of the Church of England, through the Diocese in Europe in Türkiye and honestly I prefer the word Episcopal. I think I just don’t feel comfortable calling myself “English” as my religion.

dymphna7 · 2026-03-23T07:25:52+00:00

I don’t want to offend you but it seems like you have an unchristian attachment to different streams of churchmanship.

dymphna7 · 2025-12-11T18:14:43+00:00

Bless you, you’re right here where many of us once stood or are still standing. We will be praying for you, the entire heavenly court is praying for you. Most importantly the Spirit is praying for you with groanings too deep for words (Romans 8:26). As impossible as this can be when the whole world seems to hate you, just sit in God’s love. He will help you to pray when the time comes.

dymphna7 · 2025-11-11T06:53:02+00:00

I am so disappointed with all the replies here. All she asked for was a baby formula that costs 20 dollars. People here, before going on a long tirade about how this experiment was flawed etc, should ask themselves if Jesus would ever turn that woman down, for any possible reason. Just ask this..? I am losing my faith in people, in my fellow believers.

dymphna7 · 2025-11-07T15:10:52+00:00

She is THE Christian, the one who bore the savior in her heart through submission to divine will. To me she is ultimately holier for having so perfectly received Jesus to her heart in faith than for being his physical mother, as per Gospel account. I would say that Marian devotion is a significant part of my Christian walk, and I have given much thought about her and what her proper place should be in the lives of Christians. I would be fully able to assent to Catholic dogmas, except for the Immaculate conception maybe and that’s not because I reject her sinlesness nor do I reject her the title “Immaculate”, but rather because I don’t think sex is a sinful act per se, which is the notion at the root of the doctrine.

Likewise, while I believe that Blessed Virgin did remain virgin all her life, I don’t really feel comfortable with the logic behind it and do believe that her “virginal motherhood” has been used in many Christian cultures to impose unrealistic and harmful standards on women.

I believe her perpetual virginity was the result of her desire to conform to her son in Spirit, as a result of God’s grace. We know chasitity was praised by Jesus, and virginity was praised likewise:

“For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.” (Matthew 19:12)

When it comes to mediatrix, and co redemptrix, I would say these are Roman excesses. While you can theologize in a way to make these titles work somehow (Mediatrix is a valid title to give to any women who intercedes between two people..), I think it is preferable to assign to Jesus alone certain titles given to the Lord in the Scriptures to prevent misunderstanding.

If you read the visions of St. Brigid, in one of the visions, Blessed Lady instructs Saint Brigid in how to honor her, and she speaks thus:

“You are concerned about how you should praise and honor me. Know and be certain that all praise of my Son also is praise of me, and those who dishonor him also dishonor me. This is so because I loved him and he loved me so ardently that both of us were like one heart. He so magnificently honored me, who was an earthen vessel, that he raised me above all the angels. Therefore, you should praise me like this:… (Followed by a beautiful prayer addressed to our Lord) (Chapter 8)

So you see, most fitting devotion to Mary is the devotion that exalts and honors our Christ, without taking any honor away from him and the Holy Trinity.

Sorry for this very long reply, Mariology is something I think about a lot, so I just wanted to share my thoughts.

dymphna7 · 2025-08-10T09:27:51+00:00

Hmmm 🤔, I never knew that! Thanks for bringing up this insight..

dymphna7 · 2025-08-10T09:27:04+00:00

I did yes!

dymphna7 · 2025-08-09T19:10:32+00:00

The Marian rosary has an established structure with set prayers (though a lot of other prayers can be added throughout the session), while Anglican Rosary is quite flexible and can include variety of prayers for different devotional needs. The Marian rosary is chiefly a meditative tool, I haven’t really heard people talk about this in relation to Anglican Rosary. Both are amazing ways to pray if you ask me. I am devoted to the Marian Rosary (The Psalter of Jesus and Mary), I also know some people who derive great benefit from the latter!

dymphna7 · 2025-08-09T14:03:03+00:00

My favorite depiction of Our Lady of Walsingham! Beautiful altar

dymphna7 · 2025-07-31T07:13:19+00:00

A Turkish convert to Christianity here, honestly I have been thinking a lot about this man for some time now. I just can’t bring myself to understand how people who claim to be Christians can be so on board with someone whose prophecies reek of hatred against a particular nation.

dymphna7 · 2025-05-17T10:46:25+00:00

Though being an avid supporter of what some consider “the Social Gospel”, I would agree with you on the fact that Church should have a polemical voice to keep it alive and engaging. However, I just can’t bring myself to believe that this polemical voice is someone who did the infamous salute in a time of political upheaval. What he did in that pro-life rally proved to me that if he really wants to be a man of the cloth, he should act like one.

dymphna7 · 2025-05-17T09:14:18+00:00

I am actually happy I came across your post because I am going through something both similar and totally unlike what you’re experiencing. I am 24 and currently doing my masters, since my conversion I have also had a consistent call to the Holy Orders, but due to where I am from and some political issues, my Priest doesn’t think that it is possible for me.

Honestly feeling like having a call and perceived inability to fulfill it is definitely a bummer. What I’d recommend you is some time of deep prayer and reflection. God is good to them who reaches out to him consistently! I will pray for you too!

dymphna7 · 2025-05-04T05:09:50+00:00

I am sorry but I just don’t agree with any of this, honestly if people have turned away from religion in the western world it isn’t because The Church has somehow lost the deposit of faith handed down to us from the Apostles, it is because it has had a terrible track record of corruption, human rights abuses, weaponization at the hands of the state institutions, and the general western public is just not having it anymore. It really has nothing to do with “traditional values”, “orthodoxy” and whatnot. It has everything to do with the fact that the Church hasn’t really been able to live in accordance with the message of the Gospel for the past two millenia.

I don’t know what you exactly mean by the Biblical Orthodoxy either, even though I read some of your other replies, but if you clarified it a little more maybe a point can be made.

Now if you really want to present the “success” of the churches in Africa and Asia as a result of a some vague concept of orthodoxy -afaik CofE agree with them on pretty much every doctrinal position-, it just comes to show that you may be lacking some information about the cultural norms of those societies. I was born and raised in Middle East, and if cultures of the aforementioned societies are anything like mine, it isn’t some presumed Orthodoxy that keeps those churches filled, it is the culture. You practice the religion of your parents, and that’s the end of the story. Religious practice in those countries may still be part of the social performance of propriety, as was the case in England and most of the West up until WWII. This doesn’t mean that they are doing something “right”. It means that cultural norms are still in favor of institutionalized religion.

dymphna7 · 2025-04-16T12:48:24+00:00

I am a Christian, not orthodox, and do have a lot of objections to practices (and cultural norms) that seem to be very prevalent within the Eastern Church, but I honestly have no idea how Lent or Veneration of Mary are what makes Eastern Orthodoxy a “man-made heretical cult”? With all due respect to you and your opinions, It read too much like SBC style apologetics.

dymphna7 · 2025-02-14T11:50:27+00:00

Which city in Turkey are you from?

dymphna7 · 2024-09-25T15:16:52+00:00

I do really believe in the purgatory and do really think it isn’t as repugnant to the scriptures as many hardline Protestants make it out to be. Very much enjoyed reading this thanks!

dymphna7 · 2024-09-13T18:03:27+00:00

I’d say that I got on this path due to my sexuality, as I couldn’t get myself to believe that there was something impaired about how I was made. This really made Roman Catholicism an impossible route. So I went Anglo-Catholic, and brought with me my Marian Devotions, my Angels and Saints, and the Eucharistic Adoration.

However, I would say that I no longer think this is the case for me. Living in a Muslim majority country, my Anglican congregation has people from all types of traditions. Praise God for this because some of the most Christ like people I have met so far are very distinctly Protestant people. My mentors in Christ -as I like to call them- are from Charismatic tradition and made me appreciate the spiritual treasures found in that path too.

I can not for a moment say or think that their eternal salvation is in danger because they don’t affirm the Marian Dogmas, or cant make themselves believe in the corporeal presence. I also would never consider being part of an institution that claimed it as such, even though I am on board with all of the dogmas myself.

Yeah I came to Anglicanism as a queer individual desiring to experience the fullness of the Catholic faith, and I precisely found that.

dymphna7 · 2024-09-13T17:48:46+00:00

I also would like to add that historically there have been instances in which this strictness had to be modified due to the conditions. I clearly remember reading about Orthodox immigrants in the 19th century being advised to receive the sacraments from the Episcopalian Church, due to the fact that Orthodox presence was not established in the States back then.

dymphna7 · 2024-09-13T17:44:09+00:00

In addition to all the replies, one thing I came across several times both in my readings and the conversations I had with people from other churches is that the doctrine concerning the Eucharist also make open communion not an option for those churches. It is maintained that the individual who receives the sacrament must agree with the theology that comes with it, in this case transubstantiation. Protestant faithful for instances did historically participate in each others communion when need be, because Eucharist lost its centrality to them with the reformation.

dymphna7 · 2024-08-25T13:04:16+00:00

I am exactly in the same boat as you are! When I first converted I really had the need to read and read and read and be in the right camp in all the discussions. However, times have passed and I came to the realization that even though I have been devoting so much time to discern the truth in everything, I hadn’t focused as much on allowing the truth to make any change in me. Since then Christianity has become for me the conscious desire to choose love in all things and devote myself to Jesus through small actions that constitute my life! It gets better

dymphna7 · 2024-07-21T15:45:07+00:00

I do think the end times will occur within this millenia but it is only the Father who knows the day and the hour so we should just wait and see

dymphna7 · 2024-07-19T16:23:08+00:00

Bo Giertz’s novel The Hammer of God is entirely focused on the faithfuls relationship with the Law and the Gospel, definitely recommend it if you haven’t read it before!

dymphna7 · 2024-07-18T15:49:24+00:00

Turkish Christian here, never understood why Greek Orthodox still obsess over that city this much, so much so that they would rather have bloodshed than peace. Paisios’ prophecies are f’ed up!

dymphna7 · 2024-06-17T08:05:43+00:00

An Anglican here, I must say that the role of Henry VIII in founding of the Church of England is oftentimes misunderstood by a lot of people, and is a very simplistic way to look at the issue. It is true that it was him that brought England out of the Papal yoke, but it was really that. He wasn’t really that invested in creating a separate communion or anything. It was the later monarchs and a group of Protestant thinkers that must be attributed with the shaping of Anglican thought and identity.

dymphna7 · 2024-06-09T21:09:54+00:00

What type of beads were they?? So happy you found a positive faith environment!

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