The following is a YouTube video of our recent clergy conference presentation by Bishop Chad Jones. ENJOY

Total devotional time is approximately three hours.  Prepared by Fr. Michael Cawthon Rector of St. Michael the Archangel Matthews NC 28105.  Meditation time in Church will be from noon til 3pm.  Read each section and then reflect upon questions that follow (around ten minutes total on three or four questions.)  Enjoy the quiet downtime!  …

 ON A REASONABLE, HOLY, AND LIVING SACRIFICE The Rev’d. Stephan W. Heimann   St. Paul writes to the Corinthians, “Christ our Passover is SACRIFICED for us; therefore let us keep the feast…” (1Cor.5:7). We respond in our Liturgy with a prayer that God would “mercifully accept this our SACRIFICE of praise and thanksgiving (cf.Heb.13:15). The…

Propers for Saint Michael and all Angels The Collect:  O EVERLASTING God, who hast ordained and constituted the services of Angels and men in a wonderful order; Mercifully grant that, as thy holy Angels always do thee service in heaven, so, by thy appointment, they may succour and defend us on earth; through Jesus Christ…

At the beginning of the sixteenth century the principal worship throughout England was the Mass, of which the Sarum Rite was the most widely used. The focal point was the elevation of the Host, not the act of Communion. The laity rarely communicated other than at Easter, and so they poured out their devotion to…