VI Easter

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693510793028844965.post-68381502670050573562008-04-26T15:10:00.008-04:002008-04-26T15:39:35.330-04:00VI EasterLet Us Pray For... Western Region, FiFNA Western Convocation, ACN Fr. William Thompson Special Prayer Petitions Please continue to pray for FiFNA's national Assembly at Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville, IL on June 11. Forward in Faith NA welcomes all of its Common Cause Partners to the 2008 Assembly in the suburb of Saint Louis. On Wednesday, June 11th, representatives will gather from across the USA and Canada for three days at Our Lady of the Snows retreat center in Belleville, Illinois, for renewed Christian witness and mission in this new climate of cooperation. The featured speakers will be the Reverend Canon Keith Roderick addressing the Imperiled Christians of the Middle East and Carrie Boren on Evangelism. The Assembly will hear from world church leaders, and leaders from many parts of the Anglican Church in the USA and Canada. The annual gathering will include noted preachers Right Rev. Donald Parsons, and Rev. Dr. Arnold Klukas, both of whom are professors at Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin; the Right Rev. John Broadhurst from the UK will give an update on the English front; and education sessions by Lay Teachers Sister Mary Charles, All Saints’ Sisters of the Poor, and Mr. John Witt, a former city attorney of San Diego. The three day Assembly will focus on moving “forward together in mission: celebrating Common Cause” cooperation in working for the renewal of Christian witness to Gospel of Jesus Christ and upholding the Faith and Order of the Undivided Church.Please continue to pray for the Anglican Communion Network. According to Network Moderator Bishop Robert Duncan, "The diocesan bishop of every Network diocese, as well as a dean representing all the Network convocations, met together in Chicago on April 24. It was an extraordinarily productive meeting. As has happened so many times before in the Network’s five year history, deepened understanding and deeper unity, despite remarkably different contexts and strategies regarding the Episcopal Church, were the fruit of the meeting. The Network’s vision of a biblical, missionary and united Anglicanism was again affirmed and embraced." From the Scriptures The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.Psalm 27 (KJV) A Guiding Prayer O Lord, from whom all good things do come; Grant to us thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that are good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same; through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. <div style="text-align: right;font-family:times new roman;">"The Fifth Sunday after Easter, commonly called Rogation Sunday," The Book of Common Prayer (USA, 1928) </div> A Heritage Reflection "Understand now and bless this: many are one bread and one body in Christ. He is our head, and we are his members. Bread does not consist of one grain but of many and wine not of one grape but of many. Thus we must have unity in our Lord, just as it is written about the faithful host, that they were in as great a unity as if they were all one soul and one heart." <div style="text-align: right;font-family:times new roman;">Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham (955?-1020?) "On the Sacrifice of Easter" </div> WHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619590831046281804noreply@blogger.com