THE BREAD THAT WAS CAST UPON THE WATERS, a Story Devotion for 24 August 2018 Anno Domini “Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.” Ecclesiastes 11:1-2 (KJV) [...]
THE LAST CLASS, a Devotional Read for 23 August 2018 Anno Domini, by ALPHONSE DAUDE. (taken from the Child’s World, fifth grade Reader - 1917) THAT morning I was very late in going to school, and I feared a sound scolding, especially as M. Hamel had told us that he would question us on [...]
ANYONE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL, a touching story from my old elementary school reader for 22 August 2018 Anno Domini NOTE FROM J. OGLES: I am impressed at the kind emotions and love that permeated the stories in the earlier textbook readers of America, and the high character of both students and teachers of those [...]
LOVE LIFTED ME, a Hymn Devotion for 21 August 2018 Anno Domini St. Andrews Anglican Church “My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.” (Psalm 119:48: all scripture quoted is from the King James Version) “As the Father hath loved [...]
Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide Communion Twelfth Sunday after Trinity Sunday Report Today we celebrated the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity Sunday. 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 [...]
The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. The COLLECT ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we are to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire, or deserve; Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving [...]
TREASURES OF THE DEEP, a Devotion for 17 August 2018 Anno Domini St. Andrews Anglican Parish Church “UNTO Almighty God we commend the soul of our brother departed, and we commit his body to the deep; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection unto eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose [...]
WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, a Devotion for 16 August 2018, St. Andrews Anglican Parish Church “For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not [...]
A SONG IN HIS HEART, a Devotion for 15 August 2018 Anno Domini St. Andrews Anglican Parish Church “Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune [...]
SHEEP MAY SAFELY GRAZE, a Hymn Devotion for 14 August 2018 Anno Domini, St. Andrews Anglican Parish Church “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness [...]