“I was glad when they said unto me, We will go into the house of the Lord.” Psalm cxxii. 1.

Wednesdays:  Summer Break Schedule, No evening activities until September.

Next Sunday August 2nd: Eighth Sunday after Trinity,  Morning Prayer at 9:30am; Choral Mass at 11am.

With the longer daylight hours of summer, many people are traveling or engaged in outdoor activities during the week, so we have decided to take a “summer break” from the Wednesday evening activities at St Ann starting Wednesday 24 June until September.  I will be spending Wednesday afternoons and evenings during July and August working with the Archbishop at St. Thomas’ in San Francisco, focusing on planning for St. Ann’s. I look forward to our resuming our Wednesday evening worship and Bible study in September.  Watch here for details.

On this past Sunday, July 26^th, we celebrated the Feast day in honor of blessed St. Ann, our patron Saint. Devotion to St. Ann has been popular in the East from the very early days of the Church.  Widespread devotion in the West began in the sixteenth century, and many shrines have developed since, all over the world. She was canonized in 1584 and her name means ‘gracious one.” She has been one of the most popular saints in the life of the church, the patron of child bearing women and matrons; and now in our dark times, the protector of the unborn. Her emblem in religious art is a doorway … a doorway to God. Can you see her in heaven gathering around her all those beautiful souls that couldn’t be born? Some of those babies weren’t born due to physiological mishaps and some were unwelcome and turned away. More and more today are turned away in a holocaust of death to innocents. And St. Ann is there to receive them into heaven where they go, unmarked by this fallen world. What a beautiful and moving picture of God’s Grace working all things for good; for surely the “holy innocents” will be protected by our merciful and just God.

A  Bible memory verse, St. Mark viii:

“So they did eat, and were filled”

“The Lord is in His Holy Temple: Let all the earth keep silence before Him,” Hab. ii. 20.

Wednesdays:  Summer Break Schedule, No evening activities until September.

Next Sunday July 19th, Sixth Sunday after Trinity (Comm. St. Anne), Morning Prayer at 9:30am; Choral Mass at 11am.

With the longer daylight hours of summer, many people are traveling or engaged in outdoor activities during the week, so we have decided to take a “summer break” from the Wednesday evening activities at St Ann starting Wednesday 24 June until September.  I will be spending Wednesday afternoons and evenings during July and August working with the Archbishop at St. Thomas’ in San Francisco, focusing on planning for St. Ann’s. I look forward to our resuming our Wednesday evening worship and study in September.  Watch here for details.

The inquiries keep coming in as to why don’t we of the APCK rush to join with the “new” ACNA (“Anglican Church of North America”) into a community of “traditional” Anglicans.

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“The Lord is in His Holy Temple: Let all the earth keep silence before Him,” Hab. ii. 20.

Wednesdays:  Summer Break Schedule, no evening activities until September.

Next Sunday, July 12th, Fifth Sunday after Trinity , Morning Prayer at 9:30am; Choral Mass at 11am.

With the longer daylight hours of summer, many people are traveling or engaged in outdoor activities during the week.  This is reflected in very low attendance at our Wednesday mass and Bible Study.  After discussion with Archbishop Provence, we have decided to take a “summer break” from the Wednesday evening activities at St Ann starting Wednesday 24 June until September.  I will be spending Wednesday afternoons and evenings during July and August working with the Archbishop at St. Thomas’ in San Francisco, focusing on planning for St. Ann’s. I look forward to our resuming our Wednesday evening worship and study in September.  Watch here for details.

Last letter (which I mislabeled as for the Second Sunday after Trinity, when it should have been the Third) we focused on the APCK’s strongly held position of continuing the Faith and worship handed down to us from the English Reformers and their faithfulness to the early Church Fathers. This perspective and pattern of worship (Anglo-Catholic) is as close as we can get to the Apostles’ teaching shaped by the first four Great Councils of the Church. Every Christian should want to worship and understand the Gospel from that pure and uncorrupted point of view.

All  of the claims to rework that understanding other than to return it back to its original forms are doomed to failure. God nor His Gospel will be “reworked”, contemporized” or mocked. Truth is truth. And we and our natures haven’t changed either. Not one bit. And central to our holding firm to the rock of the Gospel is our 1928 Book of Common Prayer. We can  truthfully be called Prayer Book Christians because we have a formulary that is sound and faithful to the Gospel. It has also been paid for in martyr’s blood. More on that later.   Treasure that Prayer Book.

A  Bible memory verse,  St. Luke vi.

“Be thou merciful, as your Father also is merciful.”

God bless you all.

Fr. Dillon

“The Lord is in His Holy Temple: Let all the earth keep silence before Him,” Hab. ii. 20.

Wednesdays:  Summer Break Schedule, no evening activities until September.

Next Sunday, July 5th, Fourth Sunday after Trinity , Morning Prayer at 9:30am; Low Mass at 11am.

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