Celebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
As we make our way through the Epiphany season, we are drawn into an ever-sharpening vision of the person of our Saviour, Christ the Lord, and in the course of that progress we also come to a clearer knowledge of our own life and identity as His disciples.
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The Bible witnesses to this responsibility within humanity for its own sadness. And it assigns this responsibility generally. It is not the stars under which we were born, but we ourselves, who are responsible for the mess we and the world are in.
Read moreThe season of Epiphany presents us with an unfolding account of our Lord’s character and identity, so that we may come to know more and more clearly the meaning of His Incarnation, the meaning of Emmanuel, of ‘God with us’.
Read moreThree simple words are before us today: Duty, Sacrifice, and Humility… it is these three things that we find in the Gospel portrait of our Lord’s youth… Jesus shows his sense of duty to his heavenly Father, while still giving due obedience to his earthly parents.
Read moreOur collect for today, the special prayer we use with our readings, would have us think about the journey of the wise men as the journey of our life… In our day and culture, pilgrimage is not primarily a religious thing, but we still make them.
Read moreAll this is a kind of parable for us, as we come to the manger and behold for ourselves ‘the Mystery’, and it teaches us how we should understand the consequences of Christmas, how we should know the fulfillment of our hope.
Read moreOur lessons for this Sunday mark the earliest events in our Lord’s earthly life… Christ was to live ‘under’, which is to say, subject to, God’s rule and order of righteousness, so that He might save those who were under the burden of the law’s condemnation.
Read moreThe Shepherds head out in the middle of the night to look for the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, with only this single and odd clue: “ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.”
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Louis Harris, a PBSC bursary recipient in 2017, chats about his own faith journey, about the attitudes of the millennial generation towards traditional Christian belief, and about the role of the BCP in the renewal of the church.
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The Revd. Don Aellen muses on the power of the BCP burial office in the context of a traditional commital, together with its healing effect on family and friends.
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