If Jesus were preaching the Sermon on the Mount today, instead of advising us to pray by going “…into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret” (Matthew 6:6), He might have urged u
united together, as children of the Father, through Jesus Christ. Our brothers and sisters who have gone to heaven before us are not a different family. We are one and the same family. This is why, in the Apostles Creed, we profess a belief in the “communion of saints.” There cannot...
May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen. Prayer for the Dead #2 May the Angels lead you into paradise; may the martyrs greet you at your arrival and lead you into the holy city, Jerusalem. May the choir of Angels greet you and like Laz...
Would that a faithful record had been kept of God's faithfulness in answering prayer! Our strength as a mission and as individuals, during those years so fraught with dangers and difficulties, lay in the fact that we did realize the hopelessness of our task apart from divine aid. The ...
The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) has had an illustrious and checkered career since Archbishop Thomas Cranmer first introduced it to the Church of England back in 1549, almost five hundred years ago. If you've ever pledged to be faithful to someone "till death do us part," mourned to ...
An icon, much like sacred scripture, is a vessel of divine revelation. In the same way that words in liturgy guide the faithful toward deeper understanding, icons serve as instruments of knowledge and communion with God. They are not decorations; they are theological expressions rendered in color...