Trinity 9 August 18 (Fr. Allen)

ON THE RELIGION OF  THE PRAYER BOOK The Rev’d. Stephan W. Heimann The Very Rev’d Richard E Backley   One of the marks of Traditional Anglicanism is our retention of the classical Book of Common Prayer, the latest version of a sequence of Prayer Books similar in style and content to those which have come…

February 21st, 2019 by The Most Reverend Chandler Holder Jones, SSC The Affirmation of Saint Louis (1977) is the foundational document of the Continuing Church.  The Affirmation distinguishes the Continuing Churches from earlier Anglican bodies, such as the Episcopal Church prior to 1976, which were vaguer and deliberately more ‘comprehensive’ in their doctrine and moral teaching than are…

Prelude                                Rhosymedre                      R. Vaughan Williams The tune of the Gradual Hymn (#504) was written by the Welsh Anglican priest John David Edwards, who named the tune after the village of Rhosymedre in the County Borough of Wrexham, Wales, where he was the vicar (1843-1885). Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), English composer of orchestral and choral music,…

MUSIC NOTES: Prelude                                                                                                                    C. S. Lang Introit (Psalm 44:23-26) Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord: arise, cast us not off forever. Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face: and forgetest our affliction? Our soul is bowed down to the dust: arise for our help and redeem us. (Psalm 44:1) We have heard with our ears, O…

Article from Christianity Today: Justin Martyr (100 – 175AD).   hen Justin was arrested for his faith in Rome, the prefect asked him to denounce his faith by making a sacrifice to the gods. Justin replied, “No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.”.   It was in one sense an easy answer…