Habits of Grace, April 20, 2020: God Hears Our Prayers
[…] believe and pray a new future into being.” None of us know the mystery of prayer and how it works. I don’t know the intricacies of prayer’s mysteries. What I […]
Bulletin Insert: Prayer at Lambeth – July 17, 2022
[…] of Global Partnerships, introduces readers to Lambeth and what they can expect from the conference. Prayer is one of the main components of the Lambeth Conference and praying together is […]
Bulletin Insert: Pentecost 3 (B) – Meet Our Religious Communities: The Community of St. Mary, Southern Province – June 13, 2021
[…] fervent ‘yes’ to God by responding to the temporal and spiritual needs of our society through daily worship and prayer, the nurture of spiritual growth and the practice of responsible stewardship.”
News from You!
[…] share. Help our compassion to shine forth in kindness to all we meet in our daily lives, supported by our savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Prayer Provided by Judy Lovegren Week […]
Episcopal Presiding Bishop, ELCA Presiding Bishop joint statement: For Such a Time as This: A Call to Prayer, Fasting, and Advocacy
[…] of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) have issued a joint statement calling for prayer, fasting and advocacy. The statement, For Such a Time as This: A Call to […]
The Presiding Bishop’s Easter Season 1999 Message
[…] therefore, with the Gospel reading which sets before us a portion of Jesus’ high priestly prayer: The words are familiar, almost too familiar. They make their way annually into numerous […]
Statement of Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Curry regarding prayers for the President
[…] discussion, and some controversy, about the appropriateness of the Washington National Cathedral hosting the Inaugural Prayer Service this year, and of church choirs singing at inaugural events. Underneath the variety […]
Habits of Grace, July 27, 2020: Prayer into action
[…] I was preparing a very brief meditation for a kind of public service announcement on prayer in the time of pandemic. And as I was preparing, something dawned on me […]
A Reflection on Attitude, Proper 25 (C) – 2001
The parable in today’s Gospel (Luke 18:9-14) sheds some light on our attitude in offering prayers to God. The Pharisee, a righteous man in the eyes of the community, and […]
Morning of Prayer Friday, August 1, 2003
[…] sights beyond ourselves and look to the world around us where thousands of children die daily of starvation while we search for the perfect diet. Reconciliation is global in scope, […]
Great Litany, The
An intercessory prayer including various petitions that are said or sung by the leader, with fixed responses by the congregation. It was used as early as the fifth century in […]
Ordinary Time
[…] of Christ’s resurrection in ordinary life. The term “ordinary time” is not used in the Prayer Book, but the season after Pentecost can be considered ordinary time. It may be […]
A letter from the Presiding Bishop regarding a day of prayer for people with HIV/AIDS
[…] the earliest responses of the Episcopal Church to the AIDS crisis was to engage in prayer for those infected and affected. We proclaimed national days of prayer. Yet in the […]
A message from Lambeth Palace: Resources from Thy Kingdom Come to help all pray for more people to come to know Jesus Christ
Episcopalians are invited to join with other Anglicans in prayer from May 21st to May 31st. 2020. Thy Kingdom Come is a global prayer movement that invites Christians around the world […]
Shoemaker, Helen Smith
(Mar. 16, 1903-Jan. 29, 1993). Co-founder of the Anglican Fellowship of Prayer. She was born in New York City. Shoemaker was educated privately and then studied art in New York […]
Epiphany 2021: A Call to Prayer for our Nation from Presiding Bishop Curry
[…] will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. […]
25th anniversary of Leo Frade's consecration
[…] didn’t get to go to Washington for the inauguration, but I was there for the prayer service the next day. The prayers of this last week reached out to and […]
Epiclesis
The invocation of the active presence of the Holy Spirit in the eucharistic prayer so that the bread and wine may become the body and blood of Christ. The presider […]
Join the Episcopal Church’s June 21 Prayer Vigil for Family Unity
[…] children are separated from their parents is too long. The day will begin with Morning Prayers at 8 a.m. as we gather with interfaith leaders to pray and reflect until […]
Rite 1, Rite 2
The 1979 BCP provides the services of Morning and Evening Prayer, the Holy Eucharist, and the Burial Office in both traditional language and contemporary language rites. The traditional language rites […]