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
At the heart of daily Christian devotion is the communal practice of praying together every day. At the Cathedral we follow the Anglican/Episcopal tradition of the Daily Office, which consists of Morning and Evening Prayer, with occasional use of Noonday Prayer and Compline (bedtime prayer). This has been adapted from centuries old monastic practice and…
January 6, 2012 • The Epiphany A few of us talked back and forth about having a Christmas Pageant tonight. And while I find them to be wonderful ways to get kids involved and to learn the fundamentals of the Christmas story, they also make me a little uncomfortable. No, I wasn’t traumatized too badly…
A hundred deep breaths….. ~Fr. Michael Christmas is nearly here, and Advent is upon us. Every year we are challenged by the church’s call to keep a time of penitent, joyful expectation, especially as the world around us has no place for waiting or expectation. Perhaps it feels a little difficult to try to be…
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…
April: Fools for Christ ~Fr. Michael April has a peculiar tradition. We make jokes and play pranks on April first, because it’s “April Fool’s Day”. Most people suppose this is just a silly recent phenomenon, maybe something that some joke shop somewhere invented to increase sales. But, it’s actually very old, and like many things…
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…
