“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 30th: Twelfth Sunday after Trinity,  Morning Prayer at 9:30am; Choral Mass at 11am.

We are taking 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.

From our Gospel last Sunday, we have the very convicting parable of the Pharisee and the Publican. Convicting because it speaks directly to us who are privileged to be worshipping within our glorious Anglo-Catholic liturgy that can seem so far “above” and even “superior” to other Christians forms of worship. Only God knows and He loves us all. Our danger is the temptation to be prideful and smug, thus deadening God’s ear because He is seeking the broken and contrite heart. You might say the beautiful “truth” or completeness of our worship (and our preoccupation with it) can obscure the “spirit” or deep heart attitude we are to bring before God. “In spirit and in truth” is how Almighty God calls us to approach Him. One of the great Anglican emphases is that of maintaining our balance; staying Scripturally grounded, being faithful to two millennia of Christian tradition, and using our God given reason or common sense. Narrow is the way … but great is the adventure and reward.

A  Bible memory verse, St. Luke xviii:

“Smote his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.”

“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 23rd: Eleventh Sunday after Trinity,  Morning Prayer at 9:30am; Choral Mass at 11am.

We are taking 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.

In our Gospel from this past Sunday we get the powerful picture of Our Lord driving the money changers from the Temple declaring they had made the holiest place “a den of thieves,” when it was it was supposed to be “a house of prayer.”

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“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 16^th: Tenth Sunday after Trinity,  Morning Prayer at 9:30am; Choral Mass at 11am.

The great Parables such as the Prodigal Son, from our Trinity Nine Gospel, are stories that function like philosopher’s stones –great unlocking  keys of the Creator’s plans and instructions for us.

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“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 9^th: Ninth 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.

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