Musical Notes – background and history Passion Sunday April 7 2019  St. Michael the Archangel Prelude Forty Days and Forty Nights        C. P. E. Bach Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714-1788), the fifth child of J. S. Bach, was a member of the orchestra for King Frederick the Great of Prussia and a composer of keyboard…

February 21st, 2019 by The Most Reverend Chandler Holder Jones, SSC The Bishops of the Anglican Joint Synods Churches released the following statement on the matter of abortion.  In 1973 the Supreme Court paved the way for legalized abortion in the United States in a landmark decision known as Roe v. Wade.  Four years later,…

March 19th MP – Fr. Michael and Fr. Allen

THE SACRAMENTAL LIFE: PART I Introduction:  Sacramental symbols draw on our salvation history and reflect the role of the Church as a Sacrament    of God’s presence in the world. God performs the Sacraments with ministers as God’s human agents.  Sacrament comes from a Latin word (sacrare) meaning holy.  Anglican definition of a Sacrament is “The outward…

Propers for The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity  The Collect: ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we 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…