Lone Star Parson

There's this thing, a priestly fraternity bound by a common Rule of Life and by commitment to claiming catholicism for the Church of Eng...

  Some of you may remember we fought a revolution against tyranny. Here's a song: If you don't get the Cause, at this point, then ma...

  He was a good man and I felt privileged to deacon his requiem. He believed in the electric universe, to say nothing of Christ Himself, and...

  A couple of weeks ago we were shooting together in a shotgun skeet throw down, what a lot of fun, all was well under the clear blue sky of...

  I know, "retreat" sounds bad, like some kind of defeat, but this was good, a retreat  with the local chapter of the SSC (Society...

  The local chapter of the SSC (Society of the Holy Cross) met today in Fort Worth and there we were, in the Church of the Holy Apostles on...

  What a busy couple of days, driving from the safe haven of the North Central Exclusion Zone into the brawling streetfight that is the DFW ...

  For the first time in over a year I took a Sunday off and went to Mass in Dallas, at St. Matthias . "Smokey Matt's" is a tra...

  The Anglo-Catholic Society of the Holy Cross (SSC) was founded on February 28, 1855, and to celebrate the anniversary I drove to St. Andr...

  Jesus says to his disciples, who were annoyingly busy fighting among themselves over their respective positions of power in the  coming Ki...

  Today's the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and our province of the SSC (Society of the Holy Cross) met for the start of its...

  Preferably with lots of incense, which indicates the prayers of the saints and elevates the spirit to God. Regardless, it was good to driv...

Today's the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Here's the Gospel for the day, via the Anglican Missal: St. John 12....

Anglicanism's a confusing beast, and it gets all the more confusing when you consider its claim to be catholic. This isn't tak...

Solemn High Mass The Society of the Holy Cross, (SSC) is a priestly society founded in 19th Century England to defend and strengthen th...

Walked about Camp Crucis yesterday and heard the distant sound of gunfire, so I went to the source and found the SSC Provincial Secretary fi...

SSC Cross At 'Camp Crucis' outside Granbury, for the annual SSC (Society of the Holy Cross) Chapter retreat. Its a good society, who...