In this Sunday’s Collect of “Sunday Next” we are urged to stir up our wills and bring forth plenteously the fruit of our good works so that we may be plenteously rewarded by God. It’s time to ponder and pray how we are to tithe to support our part of the Bride of Christ, St Ann Chapel. Appended below is our Pledge Letter which we send to all donor members at this time of the year so that we can responsibly budget for the year ahead. St. Ann in its short life has always slipped by on the thinnest of operating margins; and this year it appears we  are dropping below that and possibly face cuts in the choir and clergy budgets. So I am urging us all, who love St. Ann Chapel and the faithful and true Anglo-Catholic liturgy and doctrine, to stir ourselves to pray and seek Our Lord’s guidance about how we should each respond to her need. For those of you who worship here occasionally I’m asking you to consider a small pledge to add to the others and thereby in communion with each other help lift her backup into comforting solvency. These outposts of the “faith once delivered” such as St. Ann are important to so many remnant folk that it’s a holy cause to keep them there and viable. So please do what you can. THANK YOU!

“Repent ye; for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

A  Bible memory verse: Jeremiah xxiii,

“The Lord liveth”

Wednesdays: Evening Prayer 5:45, Low Mass 6pm, and Bible study 6:45 on the Gospel of St. John (picking up at John 2:13)

Thursday November 26th, Thanksgiving Day, Low Mass 10am.

Next Sunday November 29th, First Sunday in Advent,  Morning Prayer at 9:30am; Choral Mass at 11am.

Where is our citizenship? I think most of us most of the time don’t really know and it can be quite a shock “to have your papers checked”, as it were. This is a very good thing to figure out before that final papers check at the departure gate. What does your passport say? (more…)

“Seventy times seven”?! When Jesus, the author of all moral principles, tells Peter to never give up forgiving his brother, he’s laying out a hard truth for him and the other disciples as He is describing what the Kingdom is like. But why do we have this hard saying, this impossible requirement laid upon us  too? Two reasons. One about us and the other about God. (more…)

This Holy Sunday, we moved from one of the latest feasts to be established in Catholic observance, Christ the King, to what is probably the earliest, the Feast of All Saints. By the time of St. Polycarp in the second century, a disciple of St. John Apostle, there had arisen the holy and very human custom of celebrating the lives of exemplary Christians martyrs. (more…)