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Bible Study: Proper 24 (A) – 2017

October 22, 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? […]

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A message from the Episcopal Church Executive Council

October 27, 2011

[…] (DFMS) and Council’s report to the 77th General Convention, commonly referred to as the “Blue Book.” Also on the agenda were reports to General Convention from the D020 Task Force, […]

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Bible Study: Lent 1 (A) – 2014

March 9, 2014

[…] place. My experience as an Episcopalian leads me to conclude that pages 446-452 in the Book of Common Prayer, “The Reconciliation of a Penitent,” are seldom used by most of us. Perhaps they […]

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Inherit the Kingdom…, Christ the King (A) – 2008

November 23, 2008

[…] have been reading the Gospel of Matthew pretty much straight through. Ditto for several other books of the Bible, including Paul’s Letter to the Romans, one of the seminal works […]

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A Catholic Church for a Global World

January 9, 2019

[…] of Western Massachusetts, a former Young Adult Service Corps missionary, and the author of two books about mission and the world church: Grace at the Garbage Dump: Making Sense of […]

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Prescription Drugs: Far too Costly

July 14, 2021

[…] being renewed, she may bless your holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” – Book of Common Prayer, pg. 458 Prescription drugs are a miracle of modern medicine. We can treat and […]

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Bible Study: Easter 4 (B) – 2015

April 26, 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), […]

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Pillars of understanding

April 30, 2005

[…] who recite the Daily Office, but how many (except monastics) strive to follow the prayer book pattern of four offices a day? Morning Prayer, Noonday Office, Evening Prayer and Compline […]

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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 […]

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Recipe for Success, Proper 25 (B) – 2009

October 25, 2009

[…] include a reliance on a priest to connect us with God in worship although our Book of Common Prayer would actually suggest that we are all equal in this process. Total engagement with […]

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