Lord

The heart of the Christian community is our Triune Lord: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Geography, history, and numbers are not the heart, but probably I will type mostly on these topics. As the internet already provides many encouraging spiritual guides and discouraging contentious forums, I intend to offer neither.
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Sunday, January 17, 2021

Hymn: The Church's One Foundation

The Church's One Foundation is Jesus Christ Our Lord. Today I heard this familiar hymn as the entrance song at the Passionist Fathers' pre-recorded Sunday Mass from Jamaica, Queens. Searching for its origin, I learned that it is a poetic explanation of the ninth article of the Apostles' Creed. Samuel John Stone, a Church of England priest, published it in 1866 in Lyra Fidelium. In that book he connects scriptural passages to each of the twelve articles of the Creed and to poetic verses he wrote. I admire its clarity.