
Young Adults
For Young Adults A Way of Love Companion to An Outline of the FaithA guide that explores the Way of Love in conversation with the catechism in the Book of Common Prayer. Users explore how each of the seven practices correspond to topics like “Human Nature”, “The Christian Hope”, and “Sin and Redemption”. Created by […]

Adults
For Adults A Way of Love Companion to An Outline of the FaithA guide that explores the Way of Love in conversation with the catechism in the Book of Common Prayer. Users explore how each of the seven practices corresponds to topics like “Human Nature”, “The Christian Hope”, and “Sin and Redemption”. Created by the […]

About Us
About Sermons That Work Welcome to Sermons That Work! The Episcopal Church welcomes many different points of view, and sermons offered during an Episcopal service may vary greatly from congregation to congregation. Although there is no “typical” or one-size-fits-all sermon for Episcopal congregations, the sermons in this series are selected for their universal qualities so that […]

Anglican Diocese of Brasilia in Solidarity for #BlackLivesMatter & #IndigenousLivesMatter
On June 8th, twenty days after the murder of João Pedro Motta (14 years old, shot on the back during a police operation in his place; he was just playing with his cousins), one week after the death of Miguel Otávio Santana da Silva, just a boy (5 years old, son of a black maid […]

May Webinar Series: Grace and Gratitude in Our Liturgical Life
Please join us on Tuesday, May 12, and Tuesday, May 19, at 7 p.m. Eastern time for a course on liturgy and gratitude! I highly recommend this class for anyone who has ever heard that all Episcopalians are grateful because our common life is rooted in the Eucharist/The Great Thanksgiving but isn’t sure what that […]


The Paradox of Judas, Wednesday in Holy Week – 2020
The Paradox of Judas: ultimate betrayer or player in the cosmic drama of salvation? Today’s gospel passage begins, “After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared ‘Very truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me.’” Looking back to what Jesus has just said, we hear these words, spoken after he has […]

Extravagant Love, Monday in Holy Week – 2020
[RCL]: Isaiah 42:1-9; Psalm 36:5-11; Hebrews 9:11-15; John 12:1-11 Now the green blade riseth from the buried grain, wheat that in dark earth many days has lain; love lives again, that with the dead has been: Love is come again like wheat that springeth green. This is the first verse of hymn 204 in our […]


Episcopal Church House of Bishops March 2020: Presiding Bishop’s opening message, March 10, 2020
Release of this statement was intentionally delayed, providing space to share Bishop Curry’s messages related to COVID-19.

Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations releases Public Health and Policy Advocacy Document related to the coronavirus
In response to the spread of the coronavirus in the United States and around the world, The Episcopal Church’s Office of Government Relations has released a Public Health and Policy Advocacy document. An overview follows. Public Health Christians have an obligation to care for people who are poor, sick, in prison, or strangers (Matthew 25: 34 […]

A message from Presiding Bishop Curry related to worship changes during a public health emergency
Statement of the Presiding Bishop to the House of Bishops

OGR Statement and Recommendations on COVID-19
Christians have an obligation to care for people who are poor, sick, in prison, or strangers (Matthew 25: 34 – 46) and in times of great crisis, the federal government is an important resource to help meet a community’s needs. In response to the coronavirus COVID-19, The Episcopal Church encourages everyone to adhere to the […]

Charity, Ash Wednesday – 2020
[RCL]: Joel 2:1-2,12-17 or Isaiah 58:1-12; Psalm 103 or 103:8-14; 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10; Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 Dear People of God: I invite you to the observance of a holy Lent, a time to renew our repentance and faith, by prayer, fasting, and self-denial, and by reading and meditating on God’s holy Word (paraphrased from the Book […]

Music & Liturgy
Music & Liturgy Liturgy is the term for the church’s sacramental rites and texts used in public worship. In An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church (Church Publishing, 2000), Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum explain that “liturgy expresses the church’s identity and mission, including the church’s calling to invite others and to serve with concern for […]

Baptismal Covenant
Baptismal Covenant The baptismal covenant, found on p. 304-5 of The Book of Common Prayer, is a small catechism for use during the rite of initiation into the Church. Armentrout and Slocum, in their An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, note that the baptismal covenant “is widely regarded as the normative statement of what it means to […]

Communion
Holy Communion It goes by several names: Holy Communion, the Eucharist (which literally means “thanksgiving”), the Lord’s Supper, the Mass. But whatever its formal name, this is the family meal for Christians and a foretaste of the heavenly banquet. As such, all persons who have been baptized, and are therefore part of the extended family […]

Baptism
Holy Baptism In the waters of baptism, we are lovingly adopted by God into God’s family, which we call the Church, and given God’s own life to share and reminded that nothing can separate us from God’s love in Christ. Holy Baptism, which can be performed through pouring of water or immersion in it, marks […]

The Sacraments
The Sacraments Our Anglican tradition recognizes sacraments as “outward and visible signs of inward and spiritual grace.” (The Book of Common Prayer, p. 857) Holy Baptism and the Eucharist (or Holy Communion) are the two great sacraments given by Christ to his Church. In the case of Baptism, the outward and visible sign is water, in which the person […]