Holy Eucharist Whitsunday Pentecost June 9 2019

Yes, Christians can have good, clean fellowship even during Lent.  On March 9th our St. Michael’s family gathered in Christian Fellowship to admire the work of one of our wonderful Parishioners.  From December 2020 through February 2021, our Cristina Jensen was in California directing a play (synopsis below.)  We watched a production of the play…

Prelude                                Rhosymedre                      R. Vaughan Williams The tune of the Gradual Hymn (#504) was written by the Welsh Anglican priest John David Edwards, who named the tune after the village of Rhosymedre in the County Borough of Wrexham, Wales, where he was the vicar (1843-1885). Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), English composer of orchestral and choral music,…

Musical Notes – background and history Passion Sunday April 7 2019  St. Michael the Archangel Prelude Forty Days and Forty Nights        C. P. E. Bach Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714-1788), the fifth child of J. S. Bach, was a member of the orchestra for King Frederick the Great of Prussia and a composer of keyboard…

The Order for The Administration of the Lord’s Supper Or Holy Communion  According to the 1928 Book of Common Prayer with Scriptural proofs and explanatory notes  St. Michael the Archangel Matthews, NC 28105 stmichaelsanglican.org  PREPARING FOR OUR SERVICE OF WORSHIP  As a rule, a person’s attention is broken into a thousand fragments by a variety…

Nature of Anglicanism Class – bible study (rough draft) for 11-14-2018.  We continue: Our Reading of Scripture within the Community of Faith: Within the community shaped by our common worship, we also carry forward the old tradition of meeting for the purpose of reading and coming to terms with scripture.  There we learn the power…