The Rev. Matthew S.C. Olver, Ph.D., is the Executive Director and Publisher of the Living Church Foundation, Senior Lecturer in Liturgics at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, and a scholar of early Christian liturgy.
Fr. Cayce Ramey’s decision to abstain from Holy Communion is incompatible with the priesthood and is a sign of several systemic failures in our church.
We have need of you, my brothers and sisters in the Lord. With you, we strive “to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.”
In this second part of a two-part essay on the disciplining of Fr Ramey who declined to celebrate the Eucharist for three years, we explore the theology of the priesthood.
The Rev. Cayce Ramey, a Virginia rector, abstained from celebrating the Holy Eucharist for three years and was disciplined. What theological lessons might be learned?
What do we make of "Ashes to Go?" Is it cheap grace? Is it a gimmick detached from both penance and Gospel hope? Or is it an inspired example of creative evangelism?
