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.
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 […]
Bible Study: Proper 24 (A) – 2017
[…] the King James Version reads “for it is holy.”) How do those translations, and the Book of Common Prayer’s “he is the Holy One,” add to or detract from your understanding of God? […]
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 […]
Bible Study: Easter 4 (B) – 2015
[…] I cannot think of a better-known psalm, one that is recounted by heart. In the Book of Common Prayer we have the opportunity to recite this psalm in the Daily Devotion (p. 143), […]
What Is an Acceptable Sacrifice…, Lent 2 (C) – 2001
[…] despise.” The Litany of Penitence that follows Psalm 51 begins on page 267 in the Book of Common Prayer. Taking the words of this litany into our hearts is a way to repent […]
High Mass
[…] familiar low mass, used that style as the basis for its communion service. Subsequent Prayer Books followed the pattern of the 1552 BCP, which presupposed the priest-celebrant as the single […]
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 […]
Repeatedly Lost, Repeatedly Found, Proper 19 (C) – 2013
[…] of a priest, whether at a time of crisis or as a regular practice. The Book of Common Prayer makes provision for this form of reconciliation, even as it also recognizes that “the […]
For All the Saints, All Saints’ Day (A) – 1999
[…] has been restored to a place of honor in our own liturgical calendar by the Book of Common Prayer, 1979. There is an emerging pattern, in some churches, of celebrating the feast of […]
Obedience, Not Ritual, Proper 17 (B) – 2012
[…] obey. Our rituals in the Episcopal Church are so beautiful, so full of meaning. Our Book of Common Prayer is filled with exquisite prayers. And then we leave church and go back to […]
A Witness for the Lamb of God, Epiphany 2 (A) – 2002
[…] that takes away the sin of the world, have mercy on us/grant us peace ( Book of Common Prayer, pp.337/407). These words are more than something said or sung. In them we give […]
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 […]
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, […]
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
Christ’s Own for Ever, Epiphany 1 (B) – 2018
[…] include opera, fine dining, and boating. Sermon-English-Epiphany-1B-2018Download From the Thanksgiving over the Water in The Book of Common Prayer . Daniel V. Stevick, Baptismal Moments; Baptismal Meanings (New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1987), […]
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 […]
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 […]