Ekklesia.Anglicana: The Prayer Book: Part VI

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The Prayer Book: Part VI

Holy Days: Feasts & Fasts

The Prayer Book also gives us a calendar of Holy Days that includes both Feasts and Fasts that celebrate great saints and commemorate holy occasions. In living out the Holy Days and celebrating the Feasts and Fasts of the church, the Christian again learns to live out the life of Christ and experience communal life and worship. However, the Christian also learns to celebrate and to be inspired by the lives of the hagios of God, the saints throughout the ages. We learn from them how to live the Christian life, and are moved to greater personal devotion to Christ. Each of the saints call out to us: "Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ" (1 Cor. 11:1).

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THE NICENE CREED

We believe in one God, the Father Almighty; Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made; who, for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again, with glory, to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spake by the Prophets. And one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.