Celebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
In her masterful 19th century metrical rendering of the ancient Irish hymn ‘St. Patrick’s breastplate’, Cecil Alexander recounts our Lord’s Resurrection with this remarkable line: “His bursting from the spicèd tomb.” The verse captures, with a profound clarity and depth, the sense and significance of this day…
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The royal procession of Palm Sunday leads to a cross… We follow Jesus today, and we are reminded that to follow him means to receive his example, which is one of inward humility and outward patience.
Read moreAll things here, in this silent hour, are reduced to their simplest, and their most profound, for all things are here described only by hope and faith and charity…
Read moreCome and see, see how gracious is His love for us, and see too, how willful and wretched is our disobedience, our selfish disinterest in love; and be changed by the vision. Be loved.
Read more“This is my body, given, this is my blood shed, for you.” In this way He fulfills the Father’s goodness, and reveals the meaning of His Passion: it is not merely a murderous scheme, perpetrated upon the innocent, patiently suffered; it is His free gift of himself, precisely in spite of the violence, because of His love for us.
Read moreYou are free children, not bound servants. In Jesus Christ, God has redeemed you from slavery and adopted you as his children. This is the Gospel of the Incarnation, Death and Resurrection of the Son of God…
Read moreThere is in all and each of us a hunger and a thirst, which nothing in this world can satisfy. The things of this world will either disappoint or addict us.
Read moreWe are confronted this morning by another hard saying of our Lord: Whoever is not with me is against me. Jesus equates mere tolerance of himself, and his work and mission, as open opposition. Neutrality is effective opposition…
Read moreJesus is indeed healer, and teacher, and the very image of heaven, but He is more than these: He is truly, utterly, and profoundly, with us. He is the teacher who also has pity and compassion, and who provides for the life of His disciples out of His own substance.
Read moreWe live in a time and place which winks at sexual sins on the false pretense of Christian charity… Someone once suggested that the State has no place in the bedrooms of the nation, and we have come now to presume, that neither does the Church have any business in the bedrooms of her faithful…
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