Celebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
In the course of our growth in faith, we come to find that salvation is not only a matter of how the “sin which so easily besets us” has been overcome in the humility of our Lord’s Passion; salvation is also our direct experience of Jesus meeting us in our immediate and personal need and brokenness…
Read moreSuch an encounter with the divine goodness will only be a measure of our fallen distance, our sinful shortfall from heaven, and so at best it will be a cause for our hope, that God will show us how we ought to live, in spite of our failings…
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The Lord Jesus himself would restore us, he would reconcile us to God and, in himself, to one another. He would restore us to communion, communication with God and one another. So he comes to open us up, to open our minds and hearts, to open our ears and our lips…
Read moreToday Paul wants us to see more clearly the true depth and significance of our calling, first by way of a summary of the Gospel, and then by the example of his own experience…
Read moreJesus spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others. And today, he does the same!
Read moreTaken 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.”
Read moreThis 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…
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