LORD OF ALL HOPEFULNESS (#363), a Hymn Devotion for 5 June 2018 Anno Domini St. Andrews Anglican Parish Church, Alabama USA “I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.” Psalms 4:8 (all scripture quoted is from the King James Version) “Lead me in [...]
Today was The First Sunday after Sunday, the first real Green Sunday and the beginning of the Endless Green Season. On Point Someone asked, where do the quotes come from? The answer is from the people who uttered them. But, how did you find them? Oh, that. Some from Bishop Jerry, many from Rev [...]
COLLECT O GOD, the strength of all those who put their trust in thee; Mercifully accept our prayers; and because, through the weakness of our mortal nature, we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping thy commandments we may please thee, both in will and [...]
GRACE DARLING, a Devotion for 1 June 2018 Anno Domini St Andrews Parish Church, Alabama “ Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I [...]
Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide Communion Trinity Sunday Memorial Day AOC Sunday Report Tomorrow is Memorial Day, the day set aside to remember and honor those whose lives bought our freedom and their families who remain behind. Today is Trinity Sunday, the beginning of the Endless Green Season, the liturgical color is white, thus the [...]
CORNELIA’S JEWELS, a Short Story Devotion of James Baldwin for 31 May 2018 Anno Domini St. Andrews Parish Church ALABAMA “She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with [...]
AS NOW THE SUN’S DECLINING RAYS, a Hymn Devotion for 29 May 2018 Anno Domini “Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.” Luke 24:29 (KJV) This is an ancient hymn whose origin is shrouded in antiquity; however, Charles Coffin [...]
COLLECT Trinity Sunday ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hast given unto us thy servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Unity; We beseech thee that thou wouldest keep us stedfast in this faith, and [...]
PERSEVERANCE, a Devotion for 24 May 2018 Anno Domini taken from a Fourth Grade Reader “THE BOYS' AND GIRLS' READERS - FOURTH READER By EMMA MILLER BOLENIUS (1919) BISHOP’S NOTE: Today’s story is intended to evoke an attitude of perseverance in the young reader of the early last century – thereby perhaps contributing to [...]
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one [...]