THE BELL OF ATRI, a Grammar School Tale for 8 June 2018 Anno Domini St Andrews Anglican Parish Church, Alabama USA   “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have DOMINION over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over [...]

AN UNDENIABLE ANSWERTO PRAYER FROM the PAST, a Devotion for 7 June 2018 Anno Domini St. Andrews Anglican Parish Church   And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. Matt 21:22 (KJV)   The House of the Lord is a House of Prayer and Worship. “It is written, My house [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” John 9:4-5 (all scripture quoted is from the King James Version)   “But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, [...]