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        T H E     B E N E D I C T I O N Newsletter of St. Benedict’s Anglican Catholic Church   O  WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS Our parish, which was founded in 1979, has maintained the Liturgy of the traditional Book of Common Prayer. Our preaching and teaching draw on the Holy Scriptures in light of the Tradition of the Church from the earliest days.   Passiontide and Easter 2024   FROM THE RECTOR’S DESK Imagine it is one year after the time when Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah long awaited, had died on a Roman Cross and had risen from the dead. You are in Jerusalem, part of the infant Church with the Apostles themselves present. And along with the Apostles are many other eyewitnesses to whom the risen Christ, in transformed human nature that is now immortal, completely free from even the possibility of death, had appeared and proved himself alive again “by many infallible proofs.” And what a year it has been. Before you met them Peter, James, and John
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ADVENT, CHRISTMAS, AND EPIPHANY 2022-3

          T H E    B E N E D I C T I O N Newsletter of St. Benedict’s Anglican Catholic Church   O   WORSHIP   THE   LORD   IN   THE   BEAUTY   OF   HOLINESS Our parish (founded in 1979) has maintained the Liturgy of the traditional Book of Common Prayer. Our preaching and teaching draw on the Holy Scriptures in light of the Tradition of the Church from the earliest days.   Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany 2022-3 From the Rector’s Desk The meaning of Christmas   The humility of God is a staggering fact that leaps off the pages of the Gospels. For we see the Son, equal with God, deem to be made human for the sake of all people who were lost in sin and death; to take upon Himself our very nature, to be found in fashion as a man, to take upon Him the form of a servant, to be obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, as written in Saint Paul’s famous passage to the Philippians. This obedience unto death is a service that would be quite remarkable from someone who
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Holy Week and Easter 2022

  T H E     B E N E D I C T I O N Newsletter of St. Benedict’s Anglican Catholic Church   O   WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS Our parish, which was founded in 1979, has maintained the Liturgy of the traditional Book of Common Prayer. Our preaching and teaching draw on the Holy Scriptures in light of the Tradition of the Church from the earliest days.   Passiontide and Easter 2022   FROM THE RECTOR’S DESK The most dramatic and moving services of the year are about to take place at Saint Benedict’s and all over the world. There is a definite emotional contrast that we move into in those few days of Holy Week and Easter. Compared, of course, to what the original disciples experienced, our experience can be only mild. They really suffered the distress of knowing that Jesus, their Rabbi, had been flogged and crucified. With him died their hope. All was lost.           The problem was magnified because they had been unable to hear him the several times he foretol
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SEPTUAGESIMA 2021

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STATE OF THE PARISH 2021

STATE OF THE PARISH For the Annual Meeting of St. Benedict’s ACC in 2021. Fr. Hart, Rector.     To speak of the State of St. Benedict ’s Parish during this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is like firing a shot in the dark. No clergyman was ever trained for what we have been going through. No normal protocols are in place for it, and no handbook was ever written for it. I have no interest in every armchair quarterback’s expertise on masks or vaccines, or even on the disease itself. For understanding the virus as much as possible, this parish has a physician with Duke University Hospital , and it is my personal policy to listen to Dr. Karen St. Claire more than any other member of this parish when it comes to medical matters. It is my personal policy also to listen in the same way to Dr. Gordon Ibeanu on the subject of the vaccines.           However, when it comes to the effect of the pandemic on the parish, we have to take into account perception. Perception affects us as much
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T H E B E N E D I C T I O N

Newsletter of St. Benedict’s Anglican Catholic Church   O   WORSHIP   THE   LORD   IN   THE   BEAUTY   OF   HOLINESS Our parish (founded in 1979) has maintained the Liturgy of the traditional Book of Common Prayer. Our preaching and teaching draw on the Holy Scriptures in light of the Tradition of the Church from the earliest days. Advent and Christmas 2019 From the Rector’s Desk Advent is the first season on the Church calendar. I ask each of you to resist the pressures of the world. The world says that the time between Thanksgiving Day and the Feast of St. Stephen is Christmas, and then it is all over (because the next big money maker is Valentine’s Day – a day in which that saint and martyr himself is forgotten, of course). But, the Church says that when Christmas Day comes then it will be Christmas for twelve days, and until then it is Advent. Advent is older than Christmas, as feasts and fasts go. The real emphasis is not to prepare for Christmas, but to prepar
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NATIONAL DAY OF REMEBRANCE FOR ABORTED CHILDREN

NA NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR ABORTED CHILDREN to be held Sept 14. , 2019 Adapted from The burial of a Child, book of Common Prayer, 1928 I AM the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die. J ESUS called them unto him and said, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God . H E shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arms, and carry them in his bosom. ¶  When they are come into the Church, shall be said the following Psalms; and at the end of each Psalm shall be said the Gloria Patri; Hymn 471   (Toplady)     Rock of Ages Dominus regit me . Psalm xxiii. T HE Lord is my shepherd; * therefore can I lack nothing.     He shall feed me in a green pasture, * and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort.     He shall conver
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