Christ the King Anglican

09/04/2026

We may be having no local service on Sept. 6, but Sunday’s still coming! This weekend marks the fourteenth Sunday after Trinity (fifteenth after Pentecost). ACNA Sunday lectionary for Proper 18:

Ezek 33:1-11
Ps 119:33-48
Rom 12:9-21
Matt 18:15-20

Collect: “O Lord God, grant your people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow you, the only God; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen”

Sept. 6 is also the optional Anglican commemoration for Alan Gardiner, Missionary and Founder of SAMS, 1851. Click below for more!

Collect for a Missionary: “Almighty and everlasting God, you called your servant Alan to preach the Gospel to the people of South America: Raise up in this and every land evangelists and heralds of your kingdom, that your Church may proclaim the unsearchable riches of our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.”

For the day of his commemoration, we explore Captain Allen Francis Gardiner, founder and missionary of SAMS.

09/01/2026

This coming Sunday, Sept. 6 2026, there will be NO SERVICE at Christ the King ADGL. We will be back again on Sept. 13.

Consider visiting one of our neighboring congregations:

Find an Anglican Church near you. The ACNA has 28 dioceses and over 600 churches across North America. We hope to see you soon!

08/29/2026

Sunday’s coming! This weekend marks the thirteenth Sunday after Trinity (fourteenth after Pentecost).
ACNA Sunday lectionary for Proper 17:

Jer 15:15-21
Ps 26
Rom 12:1-8
Matt 16:21-27

Collect: O Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow after us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Today is the ecumenical commemoration for Augustine, Bishop of Hippo and Teacher of the Faith, 430 (his mother, St Monica, was commemorated yesterday).

Collect: Almighty God, you gave your servant Augustine of Hippo special gifts of grace to understand and teach the truth revealed in Christ Jesus: Grant that by this teaching we may know you, the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Augustine was a man of deep conviction, with remarkable biblical, rhetorical, and logical mastery, while maintaining the heart of a pastor.

08/24/2026

Historical Highlight

Many Anglicans today look to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer as the best and most definitive prayer book in the English tradition; however, St Bartholomew’s Day 1662 marked the end of the time Church of England clergy were given to submit to the Act of Uniformity enacted on May 19 of that year. Today, as then, there is considerable diversity of opinion regarding this event, but it is certain that many ministers left their livings at that time. In 2012 representatives from the Church of England and the United Reformed Church held a joint Service of Reconciliation to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Ejection.

Interested in learning more? Here are a few links that might provide some background:

https://www.biblehub.org/history/The_Great_Ejection_and_the_Cost_of_Conscience.htm
https://www.anglicanism.info/writing/the-great-ejection
https://www.evangelical-times.org/the-great-ejection-the-book-of-common-prayer-1662/
https://northamanglican.com/foundations-of-unity-and-accord-in-praise-of-saint-bartholomews-day-1662/
http://theologian.org.uk/gatissnet/TheTragedyof1662.html

08/23/2026

Tomorrow is the red-letter commemoration for St. Bartholomew the Apostle. This is the apostle portrayed holding his own flayed skin in Michelangelo's _The_Last_Judgement_. Click below for more background and to learn about traditional ways to observe Bartlemas at home.

Ashley Tumlin Wallace writes on the Feast of St. Bartholomew, an apostle and martyr, and ways we can commemorate him in our Liturgical Home.

08/21/2026

Sunday’s coming! This weekend marks the the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity (thirteenth after Pentecost). ACNA Lectionary readings for Proper 16:

Isa 51:1-6
Ps 138
Rom 11:25-36
Matt 16:13-20

Collect: “Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”

As always, let us be instructed by the example of those who came before us. Today was the commemoration for Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Martyr, 1965. For his story, check: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/daniels-jonathan-myrick

“Almighty God, you gave your servant Jonathan boldness to confess the Name of our Savior Jesus Christ before the rulers of this world, and courage to die for this faith: Grant that we may always be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in us, and to suffer gladly for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”

A seminary student who responded to Martin Luther King’s call for participants in the Selma to Montgomery March, Daniels was shot and killed by a deputy sheriff in Hayneville, Alabama, who was later acquitted of the crime. King described the acquittal by an all-white jury as a “gross miscarriag...

08/15/2026

Ashley Wallace writes on St. Mary's significance as the Mother of Our Lord and how to celebrate her feast day.

08/15/2026

Sunday’s coming! Tomorrow is the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity (twelfth after Pentecost). ACNA Lectionary readings for Proper 15:

Isaiah 56:1-8
Psalm 67
Romans 11:13-24
Matthew 15:21-28

Collect: Keep your Church, O Lord, by your perpetual mercy; and because without you the frailty of our nature causes us to fall, keep us from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable for our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Today is the red-letter Holy Day commemorating The Virgin Mary, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, sometimes called the Assumption of the BVM depending on one's views of that teaching. Many parishes will observe this commemoration tomorrow. Holy Day lectionary:

Isaiah 61:10-11
Psalm 34
Galatians 4:4-7
Luke 1:46-55

Collect: "O God, you have taken to yourself the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of your incarnate Son: Grant that we, who have been redeemed by his blood, may share with her the glory of your eternal kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen."

Hopefully you saw our post earlier this week linking to the Anglican Compass article exploring an Anglican understanding of Marian dogmas. If you haven't already, check this link to the Rookie Anglican Guide for a peek at the basics:

March 25th is the feast day commemorating the Annunciation, the announcement to the Virgin Mary that she would bear the Son of God.

08/11/2026

With the red-letter commemoration for the Blessed Virgin Mary coming up this Saturday, this article seems very timely.

The Catholic Church considers a Marian dogma an essential doctrine about Mary, the Mother of Jesus? Do Anglicans have Marian dogmas?

08/08/2026

Sunday’s coming! This weekend is the 10th Sunday after Trinity (11th after Pentecost). Lectionary for Proper 14:
Jonah 2:1-10
Psalm 29
Romans 9:1-5
Matthew 14:22-33

Some parishes may also use this weekend as an observance for the red-letter Feast of Transfiguration (August 6). Lectionary:
Exodus 34:29-35
Psalm 99
2 Peter 1:13-21
Luke 9:28-36

Collects:
“Almighty God, give us the increase of faith, hope, and love; and, that we may obtain what you have promised, make us love what you command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."

“O God, who on the holy mount revealed to chosen witnesses your well-beloved Son, wonderfully transfigured, in raiment white and glistening: Mercifully grant that we, being delivered from the disquietude of this world, may by faith behold the King in his beauty; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”

Upcoming commemorations include Laurence, Deacon and Martyr at Rome, 258 (Aug. 10), Clare, Abbess of Assisi, 1253 (Aug. 11), and The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Aug. 15).

Click below for an entry on the Transfiguration from The Liturgical Home:

Ashley Wallace explains how to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration at home with a recipe for Chocolate Silk Pie.