I Christmas

Let Us Pray For…

Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC)
The Rt. Rev. Donald Harvey (Moderator and Chair)
Anglican Province of the Southern Cone


Prayer Petitions
Let us give thanks for the Anglican Network in Canada’s role in the formation of the Anglican Church in North America. Let us pray for ANiC clergy and congregations as they face tribulations in the coming weeks and months. May their witness inspire other orthodox Anglicans to stand for the faith once delivered. May God continue to bless and expand the ministry of ANiC.

WHS

From the Scriptures
I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

Galatians 4:1-7 (ESV)

A Guiding Prayer
ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us thy only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure virgin: Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace. may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit ever, one God, world without end. Amen.

“The First Sunday after Christmas Day,” The Book of Common Prayer (USA, 1928)

A Heritage Reflection
“And so have we here now in one both twain His natures. ‘God sent His Son’—there His divine; ‘made of a woman,’—here His human nature….And here now at this word, ‘made of a woman,’ He beginneth to concern us somewhat. There groweth an alliance between us; for we also are made of a woman.”

Bishop Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)
Sermons, Vol 1