Today is the First Sunday After Trinity, when we begin this second half of the Church Year, in which the focus shifts from following in the footsteps of our Lord’s earthly life to growing in our faith. We’ll see the readings become more topical and less seasonal. We’ll see a focus on growing in virtue…
Editor’s note: this was our homily for the Holy Communion service on Ash Wednesday 2019, adapted from the first part of the Homily “Of Good Works and First of Fasting” in the Second Book of Homilies. The two Books of Homilies are the official sermons of the Church of England in the 16th Century, endorsed…
Week 3 of our study of the Catechism of the Diocese of the West, an adaptation of the traditional catechism from the classical editions of the Book of Common Prayer, in which we discuss the vows made at our baptisms, how we become Christians, and how we grow in the Faith. Unfortunately, we started late,…
Today is the 1st Sunday After Epiphany. Most years, because we usually celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany on the Sunday following the Feast Day proper, we don’t read today’s Gospel and Epistle. After all, like the Old Testament Feast of Tabernacles, Epiphany is an 8-day feast, or an Octave. You may recall that we…
January 8, 2019 Epiphany “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” -G. K. Chesterton I’m currently in Melbourne, Florida attending the Anglican Church in North America College of Bishops meeting from January 7-11. Please keep us in your…
Text: Jeremiah 23:5-9, 29:4-7 Today is the “Sunday Next Before Advent,” which is often informally called “Stir Up Sunday” in Anglican circles. The most obvious reason for this is today’s Collect, which begins with the phrase, “Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people.” But in England and some of…
Steven Wedgeworth’s articles referenced: Halloween: Its Creation and Recreation What Should Christians Think About Halloween?
Text: 2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 9:6-15 As I mentioned in the announcements, we are in the middle of our annual stewardship campaign, when we prayerfully make our pledges for the year as to how we will serve the Lord in this parish with our giving. In the Scriptures we see that the ultimate purpose for our…