Mid West Regional Network, AMiA
The Rev. William Beasley
Mid-West Region, FiFNA
Mid-Continental Convocation, ACN
The Rev. D. O. Smart
Special Prayer Petitions
Please pray for all AMiA, FiFNA, and ACN pilgrims as they prepare for GAFCON in the holy city of Jersusalem.
Pray for St. Bartholomew's Church in Tonawanda, NY (Fr. Art Ward, Rector) as it ministers to families, as well as for All Saints' Church in Woodbridge, VA (the Rt. Rev. John A.M. Guernsey, Bishop and Rector) and its Marriage Mentoring and Homebuilders ministries. Pray for continued growth at Church of the Word in Gainsville, VA (Rev. Robin T. Adams, Rector) and the baptisms, confirmations, and receptions of individuals and families there on June 1st by Bishop David Bena.
From the Scriptures
Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
I John 3:13-24 (NIV)
A Guiding Prayer
O LORD, who never failest to help and govern those whom thou dost bring up in thy stedfast fear and love; Keep us, we beseech thee, under the protection of thy good providence, and make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
“The Second Sunday after Trinity,” The Book of Common Prayer (USA, 1928)
A Heritage Reflection
“Offer to Him thy heart in a soft and tractable state, and preserve the form in which the Creator has fashioned thee, having moisture in thyself, lest, by becoming hardened, thou lose the impressions of His fingers.”
St. Irenaeus (d. c. 202)
Against Heresies
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