Propers for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. The Book of Common Prayer 1928. The Collect. LORD, we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle....

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Today is the commemoration of St. Francis of Assisi, one of the most beloved of non-Biblical saints, revered for his love of the poor and of Creation. The son of a prosperous cloth-merchant of Assisi (located in the upper third of...

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, As we prepare for our Sunday service of Holy Communion tomorrow, October 2nd, 2022, let us remember in our prayers all those who have been affected by Hurricane Ian, particularly in Florida, where the worst damage is, but elsewhere...

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Remigius is one of the three great national saints of France: the others are Denis (Dionysius) of Paris and Joan of Arc, or Joan the Maid (Jeanne la Pucelle). He was born about 438 and became bishop of Rheims about 460, at the...

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I apologize for the lateness of this – for which the fact that I am still on break is but partial extenuation – but I did not want to let this significant Prayer Book (although of course it far predates The Book of Common Prayer)...

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I hope that you will join me in praying for the people of Iran (formerly Persia), that they may be freed from the oppression they have experienced under the theocratic dictatorship of the Ayatollahs since the Islamic Revolution in...

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Here are the Collect and Lessons for this coming Sunday – September 25th, 2022, and the Fifteenth Sunday after the Feast of the Holy Trinity. Also included are the announcements for the week of XV Trinity. I am on a brief vacation,...

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Here are the Collect and Lessons for this coming Sunday – September 18th, 2022, and the Fourteenth Sunday after the Feast of the Holy Trinity: we are now entering the second half of Trinity season, counting down toward the...

The Propers for the Twelfth Sunday After Trinity.The Book of Common Prayer 1928.   The Collect. ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we de sire or deserve; Pour down upon us the...

The Propers for the Eleventh Sunday After Trinity.The Book of Common Prayer 1928.   The Collect. O GOD, who declarest thy almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity; Mercifully grant unto us such a measure of thy grace, that we, running the way of thy...