The Acts 8 Movement is once again offering videos Episcopal churches may use for free to advertise their Easter liturgies. You may download the video below to post to your own Facebook page, or just link to one of the YouTube videos found here, or to the Facebook videos posted on the Acts 8 Movement … Continue reading Your Choice of two FREE Easter Invitation Videos →

Your friends at the Acts 8 Movement have two Christmas videos Episcopal churches can use for free. We created these multi-language videos (for the many of the languages in which Episcopalians worship) in the previous two years and offer them here anew for your use. Watch the video we launched in 2016 on YouTube in … Continue reading Two FREE Christmas Invitation Videos →

We belatedly announce our summer break and pray for its good use. Also, major #catdisclaimer. This week’s text (BCP p. 825): O God, in the course of this busy life, give us times of refreshment and peace; and grant that we may so use our leisure to rebuild our bodies and renew our minds, that our … Continue reading The Collect Call: For the Good Use of Leisure →

Pentecost is the untamed Christian feast that secular culture has no interest in appropriating. Those who are not Christian will often observe Christmas in some way and will even dye Easter eggs. Yet the coming of the Holy Spirit in power to turn disciples into apostles will never foster Pentecost cards or other secular traditions. … Continue reading Your free Pentecost video →

We interrupt this Holy Week to talk about the Nunc Dimittis, and interrupt it even more with Britney. You’re welcome. This week’s text (BCP p. 93): Lord, you now have set your servant free * to go in peace as you have promised; For these eyes of mine have seen the Savior, * whom you … Continue reading The Collect Call: Nunc Dimittis →

Unearthing a gem of a prayer from the seldom used Order of Worship for the Evening. This week’s prayer (BCP p. 111): Almighty and most merciful God, kindle within us the fire of love, that by its cleansing flame we may be purged of all our sins and made worthy to worship you in spirit … Continue reading The Collect Call: Lent Collect from the Order of Worship for the Evening →

  A set of prayers so good you can say them twice a day – we take a look at Suffrages A from Morning & Evening Prayer. Featured link: St. Bede’s Breviary, an excellent resource for daily prayer: www.stbedeproductions.com/breviary/ BCP p. 97 V. Show us your mercy, O Lord; R. And grant us your salvation. V. Clothe … Continue reading The Collect Call: Suffrages A →

Our Lenten series continues with the Kyrie Pantokrator, including the burning question – how do you pronounce Pantokrator anyway? Featured Link: Songs in the Desert – a Collaborative Lenten Devotional This week’s prayer – BCP p. 90 O Lord and Ruler of the hosts of heaven, * God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of all … Continue reading The Collect Call: Kyrie Pantokrator →

As Lent approaches, we shift into a more penitential gear, looking at the prayer of confession in Morning Prayer, Rite 1. We also fail to act like adults. This week’s prayer (BCP page 41) Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep, we have followed too much … Continue reading The Collect Call: Confession (Morning Prayer Rite 1) →

It’s a double-feature! We pray for courts of justice, for local government, and at long last, we meet George Albert Zabriskie, who achieved the hat trick in collects for the branches of government. This week’s prayers (BCP p. 821 and 822) For Courts of Justice Almighty God, who sittest in the throne judging right: We … Continue reading The Collect Call: For the Judiciary & Local Government →