A Lenten Reflection on Repentance
[…] with sincere hearts believe his holy Gospel.” – The Absolution in the Ash Wednesday rite, Book of Common Prayer, page 269 I suspect that for many modern Christians, “repentance” is a notion […]
Psalm 23 & Peace: Advent Meditation, 12/5/2012
[…] him who calls us each by name, and follow where he leads; who, with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen ( Book of Common Prayer, p. 173).
Bulletin Insert: Advent 2 (C) – Second Week of Advent: Journeying with Family and Friends – December 5, 2021
As we continue our Advent walk, we invite you to see the Way of Love as a journey that can expand to include family and friends. Mary said “yes” to […]
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Reconciliation of a Penitent
[…] sign or penitence and act of thanksgiving. The 1979 BCP is the first American Prayer Book to provide forms for the Reconciliation of a Penitent as a separate office. Form […]
The Episcopal Church Grant Report: SewGreen@Rochester Encounters Success (Part 3)
[…] is to represent Christ and his Church, particularly as a servant to those in need” (The Book of Common Prayer, 856). Whether talking with, reading from, or otherwise interacting with Deacon Carney, it becomes […]
Task Force on Study of Marriage issues report of work
[…] This paper will also unpack the theology as expressed in the marriage rite of The Book of Common Prayer, especially tracing the arc that moves from creation, through sin and redemption, to the […]
Presiding Bishop’s statement on the life and witness of Coretta Scott King
[…] with your saints, where sorrow and pain are no more, neither sighing, but life everlasting.” The Book of Common Prayer The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold Presiding Bishop and Primate The Episcopal Church, USA
EPPN Creation Care Series: Renewable Energy
[…] A. From the beginning, human beings have misused their freedom and made wrong choices. The Book of Common Prayer, The Catechism, Human Nature, pg. 845 The Episcopal Church, through the Catechism, teaches […]
Today We Reflect On the Story…, The Transfiguration – 2010
[…] that good news. After the Eucharist we will say the prayer of thanksgiving from the Book of Common Prayer: Eternal God, heavenly Father, you have graciously accepted us as living members of your […]
House of Bishops Daily Account for Sunday, March 27, 2011
[…] Communion in the Kanuga Chapel. The Liturgy for Christian Unity was taken from the Moravian Book of Worship. The Bishops of the Moravian Church participating in the service were: The […]
Be Faithful, Keep Planting, Proper 6 (B) – 2018
[…] we share in his resurrection. Through it we are reborn by the Holy Spirit” ( Book of Common Prayer, p. 306). It tells the candidates to bury their past lives after baptism. This is […]
Bulletin Insert: Epiphany 5 – Global Partnerships Lectio Divina: The Diocese of New York and the Diocese of Central Tanganyika – February 6, 2022
This week’s lectio divina features Mr. Patrick Kidd, chair of the Diocese of New York’s Global Mission Commission, Canon Ernest Ndahini of the Msalato Theological College, Central Tanganyika Diocese, in […]
Presiding bishop offers pastoral word on church safety, accountability
[…] the hands of God. And I fervently believe that as we do this, as the Book of Common Prayer says, “the whole world see and know that things which were cast down are […]
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Days of Optional Observance
[…] The days of optional observance, the “lesser feasts,” are sometimes called “Black Letter Days,” from the English Prayer Book style of listing principal festivals in red and lesser festivals in black.
God Is Light, Easter 2 (B) – April 7, 2024
[…] the days immediately following his death and resurrection, to the early believers described in the Book of Acts, to the Johannine community at roughly the end of the first century. […]
Hunger for the Word, Lent 1 (C) – 2022
[…] to us in Scripture. In The Episcopal Church, we have the additional treasure of the Book of Common Prayer. They come to us, these ancient words, echoing through the centuries, tried and blessed, […]
Bible Study: Easter 4 (B) – 2018
[…] 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), […]
Brownell, Thomas Church
[…] Sept. 20, 1852, he became Presiding Bishop and served until his death. Brownell published more than ten books, the most important being Commentary on the Book of Common Prayer (1843). He died in Hartford.
Bulletin Insert: Advent 3 (C) – Third Week of Advent: Journeying with Community – December 12, 2021
As we continue our Advent walk, we invite you to see the Way of Love as a journey that includes the community. The witness of Zechariah and Elizabeth who bring […]
Bulletin Insert: The Nativity of St. John the Baptist – June 19, 2022
[…] of the oldest Christian festivals, dating back to 506, and was first included in the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. It was decided to observe this feast six months before Christmas because […]