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†   Today’s Collect for the 3rd Sunday in Advent makes a most thoughtful statement concerning Christ’s second advent & our acceptability before GOD. Here is that prayer: “O LORD JESUS Christ, who at Thy first coming, didst send thy messenger to prepare Thy way before Thee; Grant that the ministers and stewards of Thy mysteries…

†    “Mighty Word, GOD’s Spirit gave Man for heavenly life to save; Word through whose, all holy might, Man can and will do right. || Word of Life, most pure and strong, Word for which the Nations long; Spread abroad, until from night, all the world awakes to light.” (Book of Common Praise, #513)  The…

†    If you recall, during 2020-2023, the average life of most Americans (and most every person on the globe), saw a significant change in our daily habit. Folks did not go out much, except to those places deemed “essential” by local, state, and federal government officials. If I recall, in the early days of what…

† With only a cursory glance at today’s Epistle Lesson from the prophet Jeremiah, one might think salvation history is divided into distinct periods of benevolence; each different from the other in purpose and meaning; viz., the time in Egypt, the era of the Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, exile in the north country of Babylon,…

†    One could assume from today’s Collect that when the household of GOD, who is the Church, prays fervently for a virtuous outcome, the ALMIGHTY seizes upon that earnest desire and acts accordingly. That is, if we are given to good works, GOD will protect us, reciprocating our virtuous intentions with His keeping and protecting,…

†    It is very meet and right on this feast of all the saints of GOD in the Church, to recall the names of those Saints who have preceded us into Glory, and to pray that the LORD GOD will allow us to ‘follow their good examples, so that with them, we might be partakers…

†    If we have been walking with our fellow Anglicans, faithfully through the 1928 Book of Common Prayer Lectionary for the Daily Offices, we will know that during these latter weeks of Trinitytide, important readings from Job have been recommended to us. — In one of those readings, GOD ALMIGHTY says, “[Job], my servant ……

†    Today’s Prayer Book Feast Day is dedicated to focusing on and honoring the work and ministry of St. Luke the Evangelist. An evangelist is someone called by GOD to preach the full message of Christ’s salvation – the whole of the Good News of GOD – the Gospel. So confident and meticulous was Luke…

†    In St. Paul’s urging of the church in Ephesians 4.1-3, to “walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, and endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace,” the Apostle, the one ‘born out…

†    To the best of our understanding, the celebration of the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels is historically dated to the fifth century A.D. and was “especially popular in medieval England. The institution of the feast goes back to when a basilica was dedicated to St. Michael on the Via Salaria, a little…