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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 ...

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...

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 ...

St. Benedict's Benevolence For poor families who call the church in need of immediate assistance. Regular calls include turn off notices for water bills and electric bills, or a need for food when a family has nothing to eat, or a need for medicine. This includes a woman with two teenage sons currently in a state of medical and financial crisis, who needs medicine she cannot afford, for which she is not covered by any insurance or program while her S.S.I. case is delayed in what has been a lengthy appeal process with no end in sight. I, the Rector, have a discretionary fund, but we are a small church and the money simply does not go far enough. This is about poor people who call churches because they fall through the cracks, or they are waiting for the process to be completed for Social Services or the Social Security Administration, but face turn-off notices, food shortage, and an immediate need for medicine. They need help NOW, not when the system finally (if ever) provides....

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. Easter 2019 A prophecy of Christ’s triumph over death is in the 25th chapter of the Book of Isaiah  (vs. 6-8): “And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.” Christ’...

       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...