THE PILGRIMS OF 1620, a Story for 3 October 2018 Anno Domini The Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide   NOTE: Today’s story is taken from ‘THE HEATH READERS, Sixth Reader” and the Story is by Edward Everett. Everyone of fifty years or above may be very familiar with the history of the pilgrims coming to America [...]

HOLY GOD, WE PRAISE THY NAME (273), A Hymn Devotion for 2 October 2018 Anno Domini The Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide   This richly spiritual hymn is most often used as a recessional hymn. The 1940 Hymnal makes significant changes in the original text which, to me, is disappointing. The original seems far more powerful [...]

 “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the [...]

FIFTY-SEVEN CENTS THAT BUILT A CHURCH, a Devotion for 20 September 20, 2018 Anno Domini The Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide   “And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.  And there came a certain poor widow, and she [...]

FROM EVERY STORMY WIND THAT BLOWS (#421), a Hymn Devotion for 18 September 2018 Anno Domini,   The Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide   “As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.” Proverbs 10:25 (All scripture quoted is from the king James Version) “Behold, a whirlwind of the [...]

DEW OF HEAVEN, a Devotion for 19 September 2018 Anno Domini, the Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide       (this devotion was Mrs. Betty Hoffman’s favorite, published about 16 years ago) “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the [...]

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, from an Article in Jones 5th  Grade Reader, 14 September 2018 Anno Domini The Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide Some may scoff at the presentation of material from fifth grade readers which I share often; but I believe these stories and values are worth remembering –  more so, worth repeating and re-instituting in our [...]

NISAN 17, a Devotion for 13 September 2018 Anno Domini, The Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide “And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,  This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.  Speak ye unto all the [...]

O GOD, BENEATH THY GUIDING HAND, a Hymn Devotion for 11 September 2018 Anno Domini The Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide   This moving hymn was first written as a centennial anniversary hymn for the State of Connecticut and later amended by its author, Leonard Bacon (1802-1881) as an American Anniversary hymn in 1833. The musical [...]

WE ARE SALMON PEOPLE (Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum), a Devotion for 7September 2018 Anno Domini The Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide   “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 9 By faith he sojourned in the [...]