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Volume 5, Issue 17 Lent 2012 A.D.
HE DIED FOR METHAT I MAY LIVE!
 
HCCAR NEEDS PRIESTS AND DEACONS WHO AREMEN OF GOD, EMPOWERED BY GOD’S WORD ANDWITH ZEAL FOR HIS KINGDOM. A GOOD FORMATIONENSURES GOOD MINISTRY. HOLY TRINITY ANGLI-CAN SEMINARY IS 501(c)3. YOUR CONTRIBUTIONSARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE. A MONTHLY DONATION OF$25 WILL GO A LONG WAY TO HELP GROW OUR SEMI-NARY. CONTACT YOUR RECTOR FOR DETAILS ONHOW YOU CAN HELP THIS MINISTRY.
SOUL CARE!
PHONE-LINE PRAYER CALL EVERYDAY!
 
When two or three are gathered together in His name, peti-tions are granted. Ask your Rector for the phone number and password. When-ever you can, join the prayer conferencein the rhythm of daily morning and eve-ning prayer. We have dedicated clergyand postulants faithfully hosting the prayer call daily at 7:00 am and 7:00 pmcentral time.
 In the Koinonia masthead, the circle with the cross in the center symbol-izes the paten and the diverse elements which form a whole. The Mosaicrepresents the great cloud of witnesses and the church tradition. The red in the letters represents the blood of Christ with the font comprised of indi-
vidual pieces of letters that are not joined until the blood unies them. Koi
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nonia is the ofcial publication of the Anglican Province of the Holy Cath
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olic Church-Anglican Rite (HCCAR) aka Anglican Rite Catholic Church. It is published quarterly at St. James Anglican Church, 8107 S. Holmes Road, Kansas City, MO 64131. Phone: 816.361.7242 Fax: 816.361.2144. Editors: The Rt. Rev. Leo Michael & Holly Michael, Koinonia header: Phil Gilbreath; email: koinonia@holycatholicanglican.org or visit us on the webat: www.holycatholicanglican.org cover picture: Hillside Shrine in Europe. Photo by Claire Kean.
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Editorial  
 
This Lenten issue of Koinonia focuses on sin, conscience, repentance and absolution in the Anglican parlance. This may sound very basic and yet it’s important that we do not forget the foundations of Anglicanism that’s built on Catholic doctrine, not necessarily Roman. The Sacrament of Absolution is something very Anglican,even though other reformers rejected it given the exigencies of Roman additions of indulgence, etc. Anglicanism believes in the traditional Catholic doctrine of Sin and  Absolution. Father Charles Rathnasamy, Phd in Biblical Theology and Dean of Holy Trinity Anglican Seminary dwells on the biblical concept of sin. Canon Owen Loftusin Holly Hill, South Carolina writes on conscience. Bishop Jayaraj examines the concept of “once saved, always saved.” Fr. Mark Rowe examines Psalm 51. Vaughn Trout reects on the Passover and Eucharist. Some wonderful contributions to this
issue.In continuing the theme of sin, we are also reprinting with permis-
 sion from Holy Cross Publications, NY, “How to make Confession - A guideto self-examination.” It was a desire of our dear Fr. Lawrence Kern of St.Gabriel’s Greeley, CO, to whose sacred memory we dedicate this issue, that 
our church members should have access to this pamphlet.The ultimate purpose of this issue is to enable us to come to terms
with sin in our own life, repent and receive the Absolution that is God or 
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dained, through the ministry of the Sacrament of Absolution. May we comeclose to the heart of God during this Holy Season of Lent!
 
 Also a great way of preparing for the upcoming synod in Casper Wyoming. We are grateful to Bishop Kinner and all the members of theChurch of the Holy Family for hosting this year’s synod! -Bishop Leo and  Holly, Editors.
 
T
he season of Lent is a time to
reect on our spiritual life. In
this issue I will explore what theBible teaches about sin and for-giveness. Most of us don’t give this subjecta great deal of thought. We acknowledgewe are sinners, but ignore dwelling on it.I hope, however, that our brief explorationinto this subject will help us see more clear-ly what sin is and how God views it.In the Bible, God says He alone
has the authority to dene sin. Hopefullythese reections will lead us to prepare our 
-selves to celebrate the paschal mystery of His Passion, Death and Resurrection.Lehman Strauss wrote,“Any treat-ment of Christian doctrine would be incom- plete if the biblical statement concerning sinwere omitted.” Yet, modern philosophy andmaterialistic science may deny the actualexistence of sin. Others who are not thinkersmay even go to the extreme of saying thatthe power of sin is only a ‘past feeling’ andit is more of the work of the inward spiritof God. Still, some deny the presence of sin by simply refusing to think about whether itis a reality or not. Such an attitude doesn’taffect them and they remain passive aboutsin.Thomas Whitelaw states in his work, “itis extremely doubtful whether any intel-ligent person whose moral intuitions havenot been completely destroyed and whosemental perceptions have not been largely blunted by indulgence in wickedness, cansuccessfully persuade himself, at least per-manently, that sin is a myth, an illusion of the mind, a creature of the imagination, andnot a grim reality.”Like many others, I too feel thatrefusal to admit the existence of sin canneither be controverted, nor challenged or obscured. The Sacred Scriptures (Old Tes-tament and New Testament) declare sin’sexistence and the human heart displays it.
Sin is not a myth. It is not a gment of the
mind. Sin is a fact and a reality. It is real aslong as the bond of permanent relationshipexists between God and Man and Man andSociety.
What is Sin?
In the Bible, there are numerousspecial terms to describe sin. Dr. CharlesRyrie has given at least eight. Hebrew ba-sic words: “ra, bad (Genesis 38:7); rasha,wickedness (Exodus 2:13); asham, guilt(Hosea 4:15); chata, sin (Exodus 20:20);avon, iniquity (I Samuel 3:13); shagag, err (Isaiah 28:7); taah, wander away (Ezekiel48:11); pasha, rebel (I Kings 8:50). How-ever the Hebrew word hattah which “liter-ally means ‘to miss the mark,’ is the mostfrequent word in the Hebrew Old Testa-ment translated into English as “sin.” After hattah, another common Biblical Hebrewword that connotes sin is pasha whose lit-eral meaning is to ‘overstep’ or to ‘rebel.’Like hattah, pesha is used in Scripture be-yond the context of moral wrongdoing.“The New Testament uses twelve basic words to describe sin. They are: Ka-kos, bad (Romans 13:3); poneros, evil(Matthew 5:45); asebes, godless (Romans1:18); enochos, guilt (Matthew 5:21); ha-martia, sin (I Corinthians 6:18); adikia, un-r ighteousness (I Corinthians 6:9); anomos,lawlessness (I Timothy 2:9); parabates,transgression (Romans 5:14); agnoein, to be ignorant (Romans 1:13); planan, to goastray (I Corinthians 6:9);paraptomai, tofall away (Galatians 6:1); and hupocrites,hypocrite (I Timothy 4:2). The New Testa-
ment Greek equivalent to hattah is άμαρτία
(hamartia) which is used frequently by NTwriters.These valuable and useful listingslead to certain conclusions about the na-ture and doctrine of sin found in the SacredScripture. Primarily, sin was conceived of  being fundamentally disobedience to God.Sin was not simply missing the right mark, but hitting the wrong mark. Sin may be also
dened as the willful transgression of a di
-vine moral precept. Thomas Aquinas iden-
ties sin as “nothing else than a bad human
act,” a voluntary contravention of “eternallaw.” However, the notion of sin in the Bi- ble is deeper than simply a violation of lawor a moral evil. In Scripture, sin entails arupture of relationship, either between hu-man beings or between the sinner and God.Sin is described in the Bible as transgres-sion of the law of God (1John 3, 4) and re- bellion against God (Deut 9, 7; Josh 1, 18).The breaking of the Covenant was another 
CONCEPT OF SIN & AN INVITATIONTO RECONCILIATION
 
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