We recently received a question from a reader looking for “Good Friday liturgies that would work well for home worship,” given the global COVID–19 pandemic. Greg Goebel pointed out that the 2019 BCP’s Good Friday service could easily be adapted for use at home.
If you’re looking for liturgical materials for Holy Week and Easter, you should know that […]
However, I’ve heard that people are looking for an easy-to-navigate bookmarked PDF.
(Granted, an app or something like http://www.bcponline.org/ would be better! But for now a PDF must suffice.)
Special thanks are due to Matthew Heflin, who took the time to go through and add […]
In order to better meet the needs of our growing audience, we are expanding Anglican Pastor into a new family of resources called Anglican Compass.
We’re not losing anything in this transition, we’re expanding!
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The following is an excerpt from the Anglican Church in North America’s catechism, To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism (Crossway, 2020), pp. 81–87.
You can download a PDF of the entire catechism here.
A rule of prayer is a regular discipline by which […]
The following is an excerpt from the Anglican Church in North America’s catechism, To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism (Crossway, 2020), pp. 29–35.
You can download a PDF of the entire catechism here.
All genuine Christians affirm that authentic Christianity is apostolic Christianity. Apostolic Christianity rests […]
The following is an excerpt from the Anglican Church in North America’s catechism, To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism (Crossway, 2020), pp. 55–63.
You can download a PDF of the entire catechism here.
A sacrament is an outward and visible sign of an inward and […]
As an update to the 2014 “Working Edition,” The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) has released the “Approved Edition” of its catechism: To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism (Crossway, 2020).
(You can download a free and easy-to-navigate PDF of the catechism by clicking here.)
In case you’re unfamiliar with the term, a “catechism” is “a text used for […]
This book is for anyone and everyone interested in the ancient Christian season of Lent.
If you’ve never observed Lent before, there’s plenty to learn! But even if you’ve been observing Lent for a long time, we trust that the personal reflections and collect reflections we’ve assembled […]
Epiphany is a Christian feast day celebrated on January 6 every year. It’s also known as “Three Kings’ Day.”
As mentioned in our Rookie Anglican Guide to Advent, the Christian year begins with the season of Advent, which leads up to Christmas on December 25.
Then come the 12 Days of Christmas (Dec. 25–Jan. 5), which lead to […]
Crossway will be publishing this edition of To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism in early 2020. You can pre-order a copy on Amazon here (affiliate link).
That’s what Fr. Greg McBrayer has me thinking. An Anglican priest and Chief Flight Dispatcher, he shows up to work at the world’s largest airline in a clerical collar.
Our own David Roseberry took the opportunity to interview Greg McBrayer on-site at […]
In case you didn’t already get the news or the booklet through our email list, I wanted to let you know that Volume 3 of our Daily Office Booklet is out!
Slightly edited from a sermon I recently preached at Church of the Savior in Wheaton, IL.
There are just some passages of the Bible that you can’t get away from.
Sometimes it’s because a passage is particularly inspiring, encouraging, or comforting. Think Psalm 23.
Other times, it’s because the passage really bugs you.
And I’ll confess that our Gospel lesson, John 17:20–26, […]
Here’s how to chant the Gloria in excelsis, according to the following setting from the 1982 Hymnal. (Scroll down for Youtube video.)
If you’d like to chant the Phos Hilaron, I recommend the following setting from The Hymnal 1982.
It’s not exactly the same, but you the following rendition(s) of the Phos are clearly based on the setting above by Thomas […]
The American Anglican Council has put together a series of videos on the Anglican Church in North America’s Book of Common Prayer 2019.
Just wanted to share the following main sessions from the Anglican Church in North America’s 2019 Provincial Assembly in Plano, TX.
You can also read a recap of Assembly at the ACNA website here.
I’m including this mainly because the music and singing were absolutely spectacular.
Note that these […]
The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) has recently released its 2019 Book of Common Prayer (BCP). In the interest of making the new ACNA Book of Common Prayer 2019 accessible, we’ve put together a Rookie Anglican Guide to the ACNA Prayer Book!
FYI:
(NOTE: Read our Rookie Anglican Guide to the ACNA’s 2019 BCP here.)
The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) has released its 2019 Book of Common Prayer!
I asked Fr. Ben Jefferies (who worked on the Liturgy Task Force as has written about the 2019 BCP’s typography and Daily Office Lectionary) what features of the new Prayer Book […]
As we get ready for the Anglican Church in North America’s Provincial Assembly in Plano, TX, we are very grateful—not only that we three have met the Lord Jesus Christ, but also that we have found the Anglican tradition, a tradition that provides a vehicle to follow Him and express our love for Him in time-honored ways.
Today we want […]
The Church year revolves around two cycles:
But what about the rest of the year?
Well, there are two periods of the liturgical year that are called “ordinary time” that stitch together the […]
I don’t know about you, but when I first heard about “Ember Days,” I thought of a dying fire!
However, when I began my ordination process, I quickly found out that Ember Days are about ordination and Holy Orders, not about fireplaces.
As […]
If you’re familiar with Anglican Pastor, you’ve probably seen the Daily Office Booklets I produce in order to make Morning and Evening Prayer more accessible. However, our Daily Office Booklets are (currently) PDFs designed to be printed and assembled at home.
For our readers who are interested in purchasing physical booklets similar to the […]
What a great conference! Special thanks to the Telos Collective, to Trinity Anglican Church in Atlanta for hosting, and to all of the speakers:
