Category: Anglican
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Visitor Guides for Choral Matins and Holy Communion [1928 BCP]
Our Lay Reader Dan de Villiers has prepared two Visitor Guides to help newcomers—and longtime members—enter more deeply into our Anglican liturgy. Dan has produced:…
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A Rule for the Holy Fast of Advent
After the Ancient and Godly Usage of the Church of England This “little fast,” once treasured in the English Church, is our way of waiting…
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Reflections on the “Called & Consecrated” Discernment Conference (Fresno, CA – Nov 2025)
Yesterday, I drove down to Fresno to attend the Called & Consecrated, a discernment conference hosted by the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin. The speakers…
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The Mystery of Love, Mary, and the Sacrament of Marriage: Anglican Reflections on Schmemann
This week in our parish catechesis we explored one of the richest sections of Alexander Schmemann’s For the Life of the World and his meditation…
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[Sermon] Christ Crucified, the Thief on the Cross, and Opening Paradise
Sermon from 23 November 2025. Preached at Saint Paul’s Anglican Church, Los Altos, CA Luke 23:39–43 (ESV) 39 One of the criminals who were hanged…
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Why Anglicans Can’t Agree: Evangelical, Anglo-Catholic, Liberal, Holiness — Who’s Right?
For more than a century, the Lambeth Quadrilateral (1888) has been treated as the closest thing Anglicans have to a universal definition of our identity.…
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Reformation Sunday at Saint Paul’s: Worshiping with the 1552 Book of Common Prayer
For 2025 Reformation Sunday, our parish stepped back nearly five centuries and prayed using the 1552 Book of Common Prayer—the liturgy of the English Reformation…
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St. Andrew’s College Visits Saint Paul’s Los Altos
This past All Saints’ Sunday we were blessed with a gathering of clergy, musicians, and parishioners as Fr. Brian Foos, Canon Sean George, and Bishop…
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Reformation Rubrics (1662) and Paedocommunion (covenant communion)
Children, even infants, commune because it is God who invites them to the table, and it is God who nourishes, teaches, and perfects their faith…
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Historic Episcopacy and the Catholic Deposit of Faith
In the next section of his book (pp. 20–28), Cirlot turns to those who stop short of denying Apostolic Succession outright, yet contend that because…
