Anglican Network In Canada (ANiC)
The Rt. Rev. Donald Harvey (Moderator and Chair)
Anglican Province of the Southern Cone
From the Scriptures
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 1:17-21 (ESV)
The Collect
O ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men: Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
“The Fourth Sunday after Easter,” The Book of Common Prayer (Canada, 1962; USA, 1928)
A Heritage Reflection
“What do you mean by the resurrection of the body?—That at the appointed time our souls shall be joined to our bodies, and that we shall be raised to be the same persons as we were before we died.
“Do we know how this can be?—No; it will be done by the same power with which Christ raised Himself from the dead. (Rom. Viii.11.)
“What may we learn from this festival?—To believe more firmly all the articles of the Christian faith, to rise from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness, and to set our affections on things above.”
Rev. William J. Deane
A Catechism of the Holydays as Observed by the Church of England (1886)
A Catechism of the Holydays as Observed by the Church of England (1886)
5 comments:
How perfectly the selections, the Scripture, the Collect and Heritage reflection speak to our time, our culture and the issues in the church.
Thank you...I come here to relieve the anxiety, anger and grief. It is always a place to find peace and joy in Jesus Christ.
My greatest desire and prayer for the Church has been and will continue to be for the reconciliation between Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant Christianity and all their various splinters.
Isaiah 62:1; Isaiah 62:6-7; Psalm 122:6-7
This is, I believe the prayer of the Lord of the Church. In John 17, John 17:11; John 17:21-23 and John 17:26
The Church was given the ministry of reconciliation...I pray it will begin now...as the world darkens with the spirit of the anti-christ...we will need each another.
God's grace, love and truth are more than sufficient for the task of reuniting His Church.
It is my belief that the differences between the Anglican orthodox can be overcome - the relatively slight ones between the CP and CCP as well as the greater ones between them and the Continuing Anglican groups.
It is only the stubbornness and smallness of human minds and hearts, the extraneous walls that we build, that stands in the way of Christian unity. [I am talking about those operating in Gospel Faith, Scriptural truth and Biblical morality...not heresy, apostasy, pluralism and syncretism...trying to fashion their own church, gods, worship and morality.]
Those who can truly and whole-heartedly pray the prayer of Jesus, known as the Lord's Prayer or the Our Father, can be one as The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are One.
May it be so, for it is certainly Thy will, Lord Jesus, that we may be one as Thou and the Father are one. Amen
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