Advent - the Disappearing Season?

I sometimes think that Advent is in danger of disappearing as a season. The radio starts playing Christmas Music on Black Friday, and the chances are that the grocery store started before that. Generic Evangelicals tend to ignore Advent altogether, and seem, if the local big box churches are anything to go on, to observe Christmas on the Third Sunday of Advent, so as to not interfere with "family time." For better or worse, I was got at by an older generation where Advent

Dec 5, 20252 min read

Transfiguration - the Wandering Feast

The Transfiguration - Byzantine icon. In the Anglican world, we are used to celebrating this feast on the 6th August, the Wednesday of...

Aug 9, 20252 min read

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Risen with Christ...

Unlike so many clergy, I did not grow up in the Church as such. Christianity was kindly regarded by my family, but church-going was not on the regular schedule. My early perceptions of Christian worship were school assemblies (I grew up in the UK) and what was seen and heard via the TV or the radio. As a child I found the religious side of Christmas nice, but a bit irrelevant. It was only when the full impact of St John's words, "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among

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Holy Week & Easter Services

Palm Sunday (from a few years ago) Holy Week is upon us once more, and we are about to enter the eight most important days in the Church Calendar. Not every parish can keep the full round, and that is very much the case here, but we will be having services on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and of course, Easter itself. PALM SUNDAY 11:00am Blessing of Palms, Procession and Holy Communion (1662) - this is the usual main liturgy for this day which starts with the co

Mar 282 min read

Before Abraham was, I am

The Gospel for Passion Sunday, the Fifth Sunday in Lent, contains one of the more unnerving passages in the Gospel - a tense exchange between Jesus and "the Jews" - which is St. John the Evangelist's short hand for the political and religious establishment in Jerusalem. Jesus assertion that, "Before Abraham was, I am" must have hit them with the force of a hammer because in using that phrase Jesus is asserting his divinity, asserting that He is, "God of God, Light of light,

Mar 212 min read

The Glory of these Forty Days...

Lent necessarily brings a change of pace in the Church's liturgy and life. The last three "Gesima" Sundays sort of got is into the mood, but with Wednesday's Litany and Penitential Office followed by today's Gospel which was Matthew's account of the temptation of Christ by the Devil at the end of His forty days in the wilderness the fact that Lent is upon us was brought home forcefully. In Latin, the Lenten season is called Quadragesima - the Forty Days. The English term,

Feb 223 min read

GOOD SHEPHERD ANGLICAN CHURCH is a small and welcoming Bible-centered Anglican Church using the traditional Book of Common Prayer and serves Waynesboro, eastern Augusta County, and adjacent parts of Albemarle and Nelson counties affiliated to the Eastern Missionary District of the United Episcopal Church. After Scripture our theological standards are the three Creeds - Apostles', Nicene, Athanasian, the first Four Ecumenical Councils, and the Articles of Religion 1562, commonly called 'The 39 Articles.' We meet for worship at 11am and 5pm on Sundays, and also on Christmas, Epiphany, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and Ascension Day. The minister is the Rt. Rev. Peter D. Robinson.

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The usual schedule at Good Shepherd is:

11:00am Sunday - Holy Communion on the first , third and fifth Sundays of the month; Morning Prayer on the second and fourth.

5:00pm Sunday - Evening Prayer on the first and third Sundays of the month; Holy Communion on the second and fourth. Fifth Sundays as announced.

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Advent - the Disappearing Season?

Transfiguration - the Wandering Feast

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Risen with Christ...

Holy Week & Easter Services

Before Abraham was, I am

The Glory of these Forty Days...

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SERVICE SCHEDULE

The usual schedule at Good Shepherd is:

11:00am Sunday - Holy Communion on the first , third and fifth Sundays of the month; Morning Prayer on the second and fourth.

5:00pm Sunday - Evening Prayer on the first and third Sundays of the month; Holy Communion on the second and fourth. Fifth Sundays as announced.

Advent - the Disappearing Season?

Transfiguration - the Wandering Feast

FEATURED POST

Never Miss a New Post.

TRAIN OF THOUGHT

Risen with Christ...

Holy Week & Easter Services

Before Abraham was, I am

The Glory of these Forty Days...

THE BASICS

FOLLOW ME

SUBSCRIBE

SERVICE SCHEDULE The usual schedule at Good Shepherd is: 11:00am Sunday - Holy Communion on the first , third and fifth Sundays of the month; Morning Prayer on the second and fourth.

5:00pm Sunday - Evening Prayer on the first and third Sundays of the month; Holy Communion on the second and fourth. Fifth Sundays as announced.

SERVICE SCHEDULE

The usual schedule at Good Shepherd is:

11:00am Sunday - Holy Communion on the first , third and fifth Sundays of the month; Morning Prayer on the second and fourth.