Church Militant, Expectant, and Triumphant

THE SACRAMENTAL LIFE:  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 comes from a Latin word (sacrare) meaning holy.  Anglican definition of a Sacrament is: “The outward and visible…

We’re back with our annual yard sale and there is plenty to be had – including kitchen wares, house wares, bedding and linens, books galore and even lawn care equipment! The yard sale is being held this Saturday, May 15, 2021, from 8:00am to 12:00pm at St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church (St. Michael’s Anglican…

‘CONTINUAL GROWTH IN THY LOVE AND SERVICE…’ February 10th, 2022 by The Most Reverend Chandler Holder Jones, SSC In the 1928 American Prayer Book Eucharist, the Prayer for the Whole State of Christ’s Church contains this phrase of intercession for the Dead, which petition is absolutely unique to the revised American liturgy: ‘And we also…

Prelude Prelude on “Picardy”                      Jeanne E. Shaffer Offertory The Peaceable Things                    Clay R. Christiansen Postlude Postlude for Full Organ                  George E. Whiting Jeanne Shaffer (1925-2007) was chair of Visual and Performing Arts at Huntingdon College and organist-director at All Saints Episcopal Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Her composition on the folk tune from Picardy is a…

JUSTIN MARTYR Christian apologist, born at Flavia Neapolis, about A.D. 100, converted to Christianity about A.D. 130, taught and defended the Christian religion in Asia Minor and at Rome, where he suffered martyrdom about the year 165. Two “Apologies” bearing his name and his “Dialogue with the Jew Tryphon” have come down to us THE…

ON THE RELIGION OF  THE PRAYER BOOK The Rev’d. Stephan W. Heimann The Very Rev’d Richard E Backley   One of the marks of Traditional Anglicanism is our retention of the classical Book of Common Prayer, the latest version of a sequence of Prayer Books similar in style and content to those which have come…