There Was Once a Time…, Proper 9 (A) – 2002
[…] A version of this is still provided in the Rite One Holy Eucharist of today’s Book of Common Prayer. Those of us who are old enough, and have been Anglican communicants long enough, […]
Pentecost – Westover Episcopal Church
[…] with you! Psalm 23:5-6 Andrew Atherstone, Archbishop Justin Welby: The Road to Canterbury. Forthcoming from Morehouse. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/christian-leaders-seek-to-overcome-polarization/2013/05/15/1bfe9000-bda4-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html Collect for Proper 28, Book of Common Prayer, p 236. Book of Common Prayer, p 308.
Today’s Gospel Picks Up…, Proper 10 (B) – 2000
[…] a few minutes sometime this week to look at pages 304 and 305 in our Book of Common Prayer. If Jesus were commissioning us today as he commissioned the Twelve Apostles, he just […]
Fourth season of The Way of Love with Bishop Michael Curry podcast continues with guests Kory Caudill and Wordsmith
Season 4 of The Episcopal Church’s podcast The Way of Love with Bishop Michael Curry, is now available. In this episode, Bishop Curry talks with Kory Caudill and Wordsmith, two […]
Episcopal Church Executive Council: opening remarks from the Presiding Bishop
[…] year; emerging faith communities in Italy rooted in the native language worshipping according to the Book of Common Prayer; as well as more ancient ones in rural Mississippi and Illinois, celebrating 150 or […]
The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion
[…] has ultimate legislative authority. It authored (and continues to amend) the Church”s Constitution, establishes the Book of Common Prayer, sets out rules for the ratification of bishops, and through its canonical actions sets […]
We’ve All Probably Heard…, Proper 12 (C) – 2001
[…] A life that looks to God through praying together and reading the Scriptures, through our Book of Common Prayer, and through our sharing in the Eucharist. It’s not an easy life, but as […]
An intimacy with Scripture
[…] it was. The following year I was confirmed, and thus begin a relationship with the Book of Common Prayer that opened the way to a whole new world. During a recent conversation, a […]
Food That Endures, Proper 13 (B) – 2021
[…] filling this void. The Daily Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer as found in the Book of Common Prayer are a wonderfully enriching daily devotion. When praying in this way, together with the […]
Bible Study: Christmas 1 – 2014
[…] 147 Laudate Dominum Psalm 147 makes up part of a quintet of praise psalms (Laudate Dominum, Book of Common Prayer, p. 804), starting with Psalm 146 and ending with Psalm 150. The praise psalms […]
Jubilee Morning Meditation
[…] one of the great sins of the church. And here, too, we have in the book of Revelation Satan presented to us as the accuser who accuses our comrades night […]
For the House of Bishops
[…] direction of the General Convention and its call to engage God’s mission, which our Prayer Book describes as restoring all people to unity with God and one another in Christ. […]
Triduum: Until he comes again
[…] by him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” Prayer for the Mission of the Church, from Good Friday, The Book of Common Prayer 1979, The Episcopal Church
Bishops Accept “Statement of Clarification” about Marriage
The 78th General Convention approved two marriage liturgies for trial use, along with a revision of the marriage canon, allowing same-sex couples to be married in The Episcopal Church beginning […]
Bulletin Insert: Day of Pentecost – June 5, 2022
[…] of the earth—witnessing to the risen Christ. The Day of Pentecost is identified by the Book of Common Prayer as one of the feast days “especially appropriate” for baptism (Book of Common Prayer, […]
Bible Study: Lent 3 (B) – 2015
[…] liturgy; it appears as an optional opening to the Liturgy of the Word in the Book of Common Prayer (p. 324). When was the last time you recited the Decalogue? Perhaps as part […]
Bible Study: Lent 3 (B) – 2021
[…] similar to that of the Psalmist? How is Psalm 19 similar or different from the Book of Common Prayer’sconfession? 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 What standards do we use to evaluate humanity? Better yet, what […]
Episcopal Presiding Bishop: “I ask President Trump to continue the powerful work of our refugee resettlement program without interruption”
[…] not to ban those who come from countries most in need of our assistance. Our Book of Common Prayer asks for God to “look with compassion on the whole human family;” to “break […]
Opening Eucharist of the Meeting of the House of Bishops
[…] justice, prompting Christians to get out of churches and into the streets. One of his book chapters is titled The Church Is Not a Movement but a Mob. He took […]
What Do They Like?
[…] who are at a worship service. Some like it simple and plain and from the book, and some like it to be a free flowing and expansive spiritual exercise with […]