Author Topic: Father Al Kimmel Joins Orthodox Church (Read 3399 times)

Augstine Baker · « **on:** August 03, 2011, 06:15:30 AM »

Brethren, according to the blog Titus One Nine, hosted by the Reverend Canon Doctor Kendall Harmon, Fr. Al Kimel, who once was an Episcopal priest, and then was received in the Catholic Church, has again moved and this time to Eastern Orthodoxy. Apparently he was ordained last Pentecost Sunday as a Western Rite priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). Father Kimel was a frequent commentator and a guest writer here in Vivificat,and once had his own, highly-regarded blog. The news comes as a shock to many of his admirers, Catholic as well as Episcopalian. (I am also shocked to learn that the ROCOR has Western Rite parishes, but that’s another subject). I hope that Fr. Kimel let us know his reasoning in the future by whatever means he chooses. I wish him well, pray that he has found what he was looking for, and mourn his exit from the One,Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church built over Peter and his unique successors in the Roman See.

Read more: http://vivificat1.blogspot.com/2011/06/father-al-kimel-joins-orthodox-church.html#ixzz1TxnT5gy4

H/t Bill

Caraffa · « **Reply #1 on:** August 03, 2011, 06:46:00 AM »

This was the priest who ran the Pontifications blog and if I recall correctly this move has been a couple of years in the making.

Augstine Baker · « **Reply #2 on:** August 03, 2011, 06:51:37 AM »

Quote from: Caraffa

This was the priest who ran the Pontifications blog and if I recall correctly this move has been a couple of years in the making.

One of my room mates at prep school was a descendant of the Caraffas.... certifiable genius intellect.

Augstine Baker · « **Reply #3 on:** August 03, 2011, 06:52:41 AM »

Quote from: Caraffa

This was the priest who ran the Pontifications blog and if I recall correctly this move has been a couple of years in the making.

This is all new to me. I think Orthodoxy is just a cultural dimension of Roman Catholicism and as any old calendrist knows, they are, after all, "Romaoi"

TKGS · « **Reply #4 on:** August 03, 2011, 03:11:07 PM »

I have never heard of Father Kimmel before nor do I really have any interest in him now, except that I actually do wonder which Western Rite he celebrates as a Western Rite Orthodox priest.

Sigismund · « **Reply #5 on:** August 03, 2011, 06:00:58 PM »

The western rite in Orthodoxy follows something they call the St. Tikhon's Missal. It is essentially the TLM with a more explicit epiclesis added to the canon. It is generally said in the vernacular. They also are required to use leavened bread, I believe, but often press it flat to look like unleavened hosts.

Darcy · « **Reply #6 on:** August 03, 2011, 09:16:50 PM »

The Orthodox churches, though magnificently beautiful do not believe in Papal authority, I was under the impression.

This guy is just going round in circles.

JPaul · « **Reply #7 on:** August 04, 2011, 02:07:13 PM »

Quote from: Darcy

The Orthodox churches, though magnificently beautiful do not believe in Papal authority, I was under the impression.

This guy is just going round in circles.

he's out.....he's in.....oooops ...he's out :scratchchin: