CHAPTER 4 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER (1928)     THE SACRAMENTAL LIFE: PART I BAPTISM AND HOLY EUCHARIST   Introduction: Sacramental symbols draw on our salvation history and reflect the role of the Church as a Sacrament of God’s presence in the world.  God performs the Sacraments with ministers as God’s human agents.  Sacrament…

ANGLICANISM AND EASTERN ORTHODOXY – HISTORICALLY SPEAKING May 3rd, 2022 by The Most Reverend Chandler Holder Jones, SSC On the eve of the Great and Holy Council of the Eastern Orthodox in June 2016, the first general meeting of the majority of Eastern Orthodox Patriarchs and hierarchs in many centuries, it should be beneficial take a moment…

Article from Christianity Today: Justin Martyr (100 – 175AD).   hen Justin was arrested for his faith in Rome, the prefect asked him to denounce his faith by making a sacrifice to the gods. Justin replied, “No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.”.   It was in one sense an easy answer…

  Propers for The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity   The Collect and Lessons The Collect: O GOD, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee; Mercifully grant that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle Ephesians iv. 17.  THIS…

Excellent synopsis of the 1928 American Prayer Book Eucharistic Rite by Father Victor E. Novak… THE 1928 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER – for people who really want to know! The Book of Common Prayer has a history of more than four and a half centuries of daily liturgical use and is in direct and organic…