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 wha...
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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 2018 From the Rector’s Desk I admit that I wrote the following four paragraphs two years ago. However, inasmuch as we have new people, and because it seems relevant and worth repeating, I include it again. Every year I urge you to resist the pressures of secular Christmas. I do not mean to say that you should make friends or family feel neglected, but that this is a time of year to remember the two sisters of Lazarus, Martha and Mary. Let us revisit that episode from the Gospel of L...
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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, 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 P...
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