Franklin of Anselm: Updates from Living in God's Time
My Year With The Community of St. Anselm, A Choose Your Own Adventure Story…Where God's in Charge
Last Sunday, the Community gathered on Zoom for a nighttime service meant to bring the immersive and integrated members together, to celebrate Pascha alongside the Orthodox churches, and to continue the story of the Resurrection, which continues to inspire and instruct us throughout Eastertide. Anna, the Integrated member from Zimbabwe, and I planned the service: … Continue reading Paschal Compline
Maundy Thursday Months ago, when The Community of St. Anselm hosted a teacher at the Palace every week, we welcomed an endearingly prickly, quirky theologian who taught us about the Eucharist. Perhaps teaching a bit above our collective understanding of Communion (we were just expecting an overview of different traditions: high, low, and so on,) … Continue reading Re-membering a Community
In the Community of St. Anselm, we end up designing a lot of prayer stations — we made a big effort for the House of Bishops and an Ash Wednesday Retreat, especially — but for the first time, this Holy Week, some of us actually asked to set up a round of prayer stations. Before … Continue reading Intercessions in Isolation
Every Friday, Community members design and lead a Vespers service, reflecting our interests, traditions, or concerns during our time at Lambeth. Last week, I led our service remotely, via Zoom, and tried to incorporate a lot of technology and a lot of humanity at the same time. I figured out how to screen-share the few … Continue reading Consider the lilies…
Franklin of Anselm: Updates from Living in God's Time 