Meditations
Faith Like An Orange Tree?
In 1998 we moved to Orlando, Florida in order for me to serve as a Canon to the Cathedral Church of St. Luke. One of the things I fell in love with after arriving in Central Florida was fresh Read more…
History
The Building-less Early Church
The early Church was building-less, an attribute that is becoming more familiar in the modern Church in the West and has long been a reality in places where Christians are still persecuted. The view of the modern Church is Read more…
Meditations
Lent Is For Re-tuning The Piano Of Our Hearts.
Last week, I was talking to my daughter on the phone. As she was entering home, she heard the melodic sound of a piano. It was being played by a man who had finished tuning a piano she and Read more…
Liturgy
Collect: Third Sunday In Lent
The collect for the Third Sunday in Lent asks the Lord to quickly come and protect, both physically and spiritually, from the works of Satan. In Lent we remember Christ’s wonderings in the desert and His temptation to sin. Read more…
Liturgy
Collect: Second Sunday In Lent
This week’s collect stems from Gallicanum (from Gaul), Gelasian (relating to Pope Gelasius), and Gregorian (10th century, but misattributed to Pope Gregory the Great) liturgical books as prayers for those who were heretics and schismatics to be brought to Read more…
Meditations
Lent: A Time For Restoring Our Spiritual Fitness
You may not realize that I majored in Health and Physical Education in College. In fact, I have both a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree in that field of study. As you may expect, I have heard Read more…
Liturgy
“Could You Not Watch With Me Even One Hour?” Reawaken The Maundy Thursday Prayer Watch.
The state of the current Anglican body in the United States is one that finds itself worshipping in schools, office buildings, homes, or during evenings in another church’s building. Many churches that left old Episcopal properties also lost all of Read more…
Liturgy
Collect: First Sunday In Lent
There was a prayer for the First Sunday in Lent in Gregory the Great’s 6th Century service book (“sacramentary” or “missal”). However, Thomas Cranmer (Archbishop of Canterbury 1533-55) created a new prayer that was more rooted in the Sunday’s Read more…
Meditations
LORD, Lord, lord; What’s The Difference?
Have you ever wondered why sometimes your Bible says “LORD” in all capital letters, other times it has the standard capitalization for a proper noun “Lord”, and occasionally you will find an all lower case “lord”? Be still Read more…
Liturgy
Collect For Ash Wednesday
With it’s roots dating back to the time of Pope Gelasious I in the 5th Century, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer wrote a new prayer in 1549 that placed more emphasis on penitence rather than upon the fast like than the Read more…