This post, in addition to being a part of Rookie Anglican, is part of a series on the Collects of the Christian Year (ACNA), called “Collect Reflections.” If you’re just jumping in, make sure to check out the introductory post, “Announcing Collect Reflections.” All Collect Reflection posts can be found here. Collect for the First Sunday in…
A Collect Reflection for Christ the King Sunday
What “restoration” does the collect allude to? Why does it talk about “peoples” of the earth? What is the relationship between the Father and the Son in the latter’s “gracious rule”? Let me try to explain.
Week of the Sunday from Nov 6 to Nov 12; Proper 27, A Collect Reflection
Why did God become human? Many theologians have asked this question throughout the centuries. Perhaps most famously, St. Anselm (Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 until 1109, by the way) wrote an entire work on the topic: Cur Deus Homo? (“Why was God a Man?”). Now, according to Anselm, God became a human in order to pay humanity’s…
Week of the Sunday from Oct 30 to Nov 5; Proper 26, A Collect Reflection
It’s November now, and as leaves fall from the trees, so the days begin to pass by more quickly and we enter a season of busyness. It is a sad truth that what ought to be a season of rising anticipation often becomes for us a season of dread. We worry about travel, we worry…
Announcing Collect Reflections: Reflecting on the Collects of the Christian Year
If you’ve done the Daily Office more than once or twice, you’ve probably noticed that certain prayers get repeated for a week and then change. These prayers are called “the Collects (usually pronounced COL-lects, with the accent on the first syllable) of the Christian Year.” What is a Collect, Anyways? Back in 2015, our founding…
