Celebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
Taken together, today’s lessons recall both the foundation of our Christian life, in the redeeming event of Christ’s Incarnation and Passion… and also the means whereby we come to enjoy the fruits of that Redemption…
Read moreOur lessons this Sunday direct our thoughts and prayers towards the good outcome of our faith, summed up in St. Paul’s wonderful phrase, “the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man for the common good.”
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This Christian believing, this Christian confessing and this Christian living are only possible by the gift and power, the influence and inbreathing of the Holy Spirit…
Read moreBut we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord…
Read moreIn Revelation we are told of the life of heaven, And they shall see his face (Rev. 22.4) and St. Paul says that while here we see but dimly, our end is that full and intimate knowledge of Jesus, Now we see in a glass darkly; but then face to face…
Read moreThis image of steward is meant to remind us that we are caretakers, not owners, of all that God has entrusted to us. That includes our lives, our allotted time, our bodies and minds, our health and strength, our talents and abilities, as well as our money, education, and opportunities.
Read moreThis week, we find the same theme from last Sunday—our calling to obedience, and the spiritual fruit our faithfulness ought to bear—now spelled out in the practical example of Israel in the desert: “they did all eat the same spiritual food, and did all drink the same spiritual drink…
Read moreOur journey of conversion, which is the growth and deepening of our Christian faith, gradually makes its way towards the goal of heaven; and that spiritual journey is the earthly meaning of our calling to be God’s people, to be here and now the citizens of His kingdom.
Read moreThe story of our salvation is told best in terms of our adoption and forgiveness. St. Paul speaks in both Galatians and Romans of the mission of the Son and the Spirit, in exactly these terms…
Read moreThe lections for the eighth Sunday after Trinity direct us toward the new character of life that comes from our conversion to Christ, and the way of faith which that conversion entails…
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