Anglican Relief and Development Fund
Canon Nancy Norton (Director)
Board of Foreign Missions, REC
The Rt. Rev. Royal V. Grote, Jr. (President)
Christian Formation Ministries
The Rev. Canon William E. Blewett
Canon Carolyn C. Fouse
Special Prayer Petitions
from Nancy Norton of the Anglican Relief and Development Fund
Please pray for our upcoming Trustees meeting November 10-12 in Vero Beach, Florida, for the Holy Spirit's presence to guide us in our decisions for the future of ARDF.
From the Scriptures
Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel….
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?” I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
“Therefore they are before the throne of God,
and serve him day and night in his temple;
and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;
the sun shall not strike them,
nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,
and he will guide them to springs of living water,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
Revelation 7:2-4, 9-17 (ESV)
A Guiding Prayer
O Almighty God, who hast knit together thine elect in one communion and fellowship, in the mystical body of thy Son Christ our Lord; Grant us grace so to follow thy blessed Saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those unspeakable joys which thou hast prepared for those who unfeignedly love thee; through the same thy Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
“All Saints’ Day,” The Book of Common Prayer (USA, 1928)
A Heritage Reflection
“As there is a perfect union betwixt the glorious Saints in heaven, and an union, though imperfect, betwixt the Saints on earth, so there is an union, partly perfect and partly imperfect, between the Saints in heaven and the Saints below upon earth, perfect in respect of those glorified Saints above, imperfect in respect of the weak returns we are able to make to them again.”
Bishop Joseph Hall (1574-1656)
A Treatise of Christ Mystical; or the Blessed Union of Christ and His Members
A Treatise of Christ Mystical; or the Blessed Union of Christ and His Members
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