What Christians Believe, Part 1: Introduction

The Lords Prayer:   Pope Francis has acted to change the words of the Lord’s Prayer from that which most of us learned when we were very young.  This seems an unnecessary act that is controversial even within the Roman Church and once again confusion has been created where there has not been confusion, and…

Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed follows the reading of the Gospel. After hearing the readings from the Scriptures the people of God confess their faith. “Our earliest record of the creed said during the liturgy tells that it was introduced by the Patriarchs Peter the Dyer at Antioch (470-488) and Timothy I of Constantinople (511-518)… In the west…

The Eucharist as Refreshment For us as we approach the Fourth Sunday in Lent… – Mid Lent Our Lord Jesus Christ calls us, beckons us, to refreshment this day as we take a hopefully well-deserved pause from our Lenten discipline, and lighten the mood with the festal vestments and colour of rose.  It is time…

Prelude Prelude on “Picardy”                      Jeanne E. Shaffer Offertory The Peaceable Things                    Clay R. Christiansen Postlude Postlude for Full Organ                  George E. Whiting Jeanne Shaffer (1925-2007) was chair of Visual and Performing Arts at Huntingdon College and organist-director at All Saints Episcopal Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Her composition on the folk tune from Picardy is a…