O God of compassion, you opened the eyes of your servant Thomas Bray to see the needs of the Church in the New World, and led him to found societies to meet those needs: Make the Church in this land…
Continue ReadingAlmighty and everlasting God, by the power of the Holy Spirit you moved your servant Cyril and his brother Methodius to bring the light of the Gospel to a hostile and divided people: Overcome all bitterness and strife among us…
Continue ReadingSet us free, heavenly Father, from every bond of prejudice and fear; that, honoring the steadfast courage of your servant Absalom Jones, we may show forth in our lives the reconciling love and true freedom of the children of God,…
Continue ReadingOur rector’s, Fr. Eric Funston’s, sermon for Sunday, February 12, 2012, the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany is now on line. The reading from the Hebrew Scriptures today is the story of Naaman, a general from the country of Aram (modern…
Continue ReadingO God, the blessed assurance of all who trust in you: We give you thanks for your servant Fanny Crosby, who, though blind from infancy, beheld your glory with great clarity of vision and spent her life giving voice to…
Continue ReadingNot found on our Episcopal Church calendar, but venerated by our brothers and sisters of the Greek Orthodox Church is the martyr Haralambos who lived at the time of the Emperor Septimus Severus (194-211) in the city of Magnesia. In…
Continue ReadingNot found on our Episcopal Church calendar, but venerated today (Feb 9) by our Anglican brothers and sisters in the Church in Wales is St. Teilo of Llandeilo, an early saint of Christianity in Wales. An appropriate prayer for his…
Continue ReadingNot on our Episcopal Church calendar, but venerated in the Roman tradition and in some parts of the Anglican Communion today is St. Cuthmann the Builder, to whom this prayer is attributed: Father Almighty, you have brought my wanderings to…
Continue ReadingO God, by your Spirit you called Cornelius the Centurion to be the first Christian among the Gentiles: Grant to your Church such a ready will to go where you send and to do what you command, that under your…
Continue ReadingO God our Father, source of strength to all your saints, you brought the holy martyrs of Japan through the suffering of the cross to the joys of eternal life: Grant that we, encouraged by their example, may hold fast…
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