Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide Office of the Bishop PO Box 128 - Statesville, N.C. 28687 E-mail: aocworldwide@gmail.com Phone 704-873-8365 31 March 2016 Anno Domini “…For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.”—1 Corinthians 5:7* According to Juliet in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo & Juliet, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by [...]

30 March 2024 Anno Domini “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.  2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers [...]

Devotion for 27 March 2024 Anno Domini the Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide   “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” (John 15:5; all scripture quoted is from the Authorized King James Bible) [...]

24 March 2024 Anno Domini, THE Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide   “Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. 16 And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas. 17 Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto [...]

22 March 2024 Anno Domini, the Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide   “I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. 3I will call upon [...]

Hymn Devotion for 20 March 2024 Anno Domini the Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide  “And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines. 8And the children of [...]

17 March 2024 Anno Domini, the Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide The Collect Fifth Sunday in Lent (Passion Sunday) WE beseech thee, Almighty God, mercifully to look upon thy people; that by thy great goodness they may be governed and preserved evermore, both in body and soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.               The Prayer COLLECT [...]

Devotion for 15 March 2024 (Ides) the Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 11As the [...]

Hymn Devotion for 12 March 2024 Anno Domini, the Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide “Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: [...]

5 February 2024 Anno Domini , the Anglican Orthodox Communion Worldwide (reprint from 7 June 2016)   “My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. 11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks arebushy, and black as a raven. 12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. 13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, [...]