Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s opening remarks for Executive Council: June 25, 2021
The following is a transcript of the opening remarks of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry at the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, currently meeting virtually through June 28.
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), […]
What makes us Anglican?
[…] is English, rather than Latin or Greek, the two earlier, “official” languages of Christianity. Yet the Book of Common Prayer has been translated into many languages, so that those Episcopalians who do not speak […]
TREC issues letter to The Episcopal Church
[…] love for our Church and its unique way of creating Christ-centered community and mission. The Book of Common Prayer and the beauty and mystery of our liturgy bind us together across ages, geographies […]
Bishop Griswold addresses General Convention
[…] of it and to the sea of paper I had to organize in my note book. I was made a sergeant at arms which meant I was to discipline unruly […]
Good Friday Comes Every Year…, Good Friday – 2010
[…] but also for the whole world â for all who seek the truth, as our Book of Common Prayer says. Once again on this Good Friday we feel the universal embrace of Godâs […]
Hart, Samuel
[…] he was the third dean of Berkeley. Hart became the third custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer in 1886, secretary of the House of Bishops on Oct. 24, 1892, and the […]
EPPN Creation Care Series: Environmental Racism
[…] serve you in harmony around your heavenly throne; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Book of Common Prayer, For the Human Family, pg. 815 For the Oppressed Look with pity, O heavenly […]
Do Friendships Matter?
[…] Clinic, matched with promises from the Baptismal Covenant as found on pages 304-305 of the Book of Common Prayer. During the rite of baptism, as we are asked to make the promises shown […]
Bible Study: Proper 24 (A) – 2020
[…] 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? […]
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 […]
Inherit the Kingdom…, Christ the King (A) – 2008
[…] have been reading the Gospel of Matthew pretty much straight through. Ditto for several other books of the Bible, including Paulâs Letter to the Romans, one of the seminal works […]
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: Lent 1 (A) – 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 […]
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.
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), […]
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 […]