June 30 Pondering, Reading, Morning Prayer

 ON THE BIBLE, THE CHURCH, and MARY The Rev’d. Stephan W. Heimann   Anglicanism has always had a sort of “split personality” when it comes to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There have been a number of well-known Anglican writers, especially among the theologians of the seventeenth and…

  The Full Gospel According to the Church’s Calendar As Presented in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Click Here A multi-year project by Fr. Allen Fischer who will be joining St. Michael the Archangel on May 1st.  His scholarly work will be a blessing to our Church.  We are excited by the arrival of…

Propers for The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity The Collect: LORD, we beseech thee, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil; and with pure hearts and minds to follow thee, the only God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle: 1 Corinthians i. 4.  I THANK…

A different Lessons and Carols – Done Saint Michael’s Way – a very moving service which even made the people emotional of the presentation. Total service lasts about an hour and a half…take a few moments and take in all the beauty of reverent worship. Just click below. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=367145308506081&id=100023556618640        

ADVENT The Rev’d. Stephan W. Heimann The Very Rev’d Richard E Backley   The Season of Advent, which begins our Christian Year, has an interesting history. We have to understand, first of all, that the very early Christian Church did not put the emphasis on Christmas that we do today. The principal celebration of this…

The Wall Street Journal By  CLARE ANSBERRY  March 3, 2015 1:08 p.m. ET Many people change faiths, but not like Brad and Chad Jones. Identical twins, the brothers grew up in Elkin, N.C., a small town in the Bible Belt, the only children of devout Baptists. As boys, they attended the First Baptist Church of…