Links to prayer resources:
Mission St. Claire, Episcopal daily office site
Oremus, Non-denominational prayer site
Book of Common Prayer, online version of the Episcopal Church’s prayer book
St. Gregory’s Abbey, Episcopal monastery
Society of St. John the Evangelist, Episcopal monastery
Community of the Resurrection, Anglican monastery
Order of the Holy Paraclete, Whitby, Anglican convent
The Iona Community, Non-denominational religious community
6th Easter 2017 ~Fr. Michael May the words of my mouth and the meditations of all our hearts be ever acceptable in thy sight oh Lord my strength & my redeemer. How many of us when we were children heard our parents say that if we were good kids and loved them, then we would…
Into Greater Silence ~Fr. Michael The Hebrew word “Selah” has no direct English translation. It is often completely omitted from English translations. It occurs mostly in our Bible in the Book of Psalms, which we know was a worship book used in the Jerusalem Temple and Jewish Synagogues of Jesus’ time and beyond. It is likely that it is…
The Society of Ordained Scientists ~Fr. Michael This past month, I was admitted into a group which is at the vanguard of one of the most important conversations in the world: the Society of Ordained Scientists. The group was founded in the early 1970s in the UK by Professor Arthur Peacocke, a luminary in the…
How to Be an Evangelist Everyday ~Fr. Michael There’s a lot of talk these days about how the church needs to evangelize the world around us better if the church is going to survive. Books get written about it and we have conferences where we are told how badly its needed, and maybe get some…
Silence in the Church from a tract at Durham Cathedral ~Fr. Michael As a child I was taught always to whisper or speak quietly in church, except when joining in acts of public worship, and only to speak at all other times when absolutely necessary. The church building was a holy place, where people came to…
The Gift of the Kingdom ~Fr. Greene There is only one simple qualification for being a disciple of Jesus: give up everything. That’s a pretty insurmountable obstacle. So hard is this qualification that earnest Christians have thought of many ways to soften Jesus’ words without washing all meaning and challenge out of them. It is often…
