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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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 ...
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