ACC Diocese of the Missouri Valley

03/28/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/bishopchandlerholderjones/p/official-eastern-orthodox-statements?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

The history of the Churches in the early-to-mid 20th century

02/25/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqhFIlLQ68c

Introducing the Old Testament - The Documentary Hypothesis and The Literary Design of Noah's Flood

02/18/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svybzbmL6lU&t=8s

Introducing the Old Testament - The Covenant Structure of the Old Testament and Other Literary Structure Clues

02/15/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGtAvxSKxVU

Why do Anglican Catholics pray to saints? Is it really allowed?

02/11/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1HmscTKPcM

Introducing the Old Testament - Main Themes and Structure of Genesis

02/03/2026

https://www.youtube.com//streams

The Diocese of the Missouri Valley is a member diocese of the Anglican Catholic Church committed to The Affirmation of St. Louis, holding the historic faith and practice of the Ancient Church in the English Tradition.

02/01/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZs8bpTrv9M&pp=2AYy

Introducing the Old Testament - Elements of History, Textual Criticism, and Resources

02/01/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AHI7w-imGg&pp=2AYD

Introducing the Old Testament - Literary Structure and Orality

12/17/2025

Footnote: This is the primary Latin arrangement. A primarily English usage starts on the 16th instead. It includes an eight antiphon, O Virgo Virginum, placing it on the 23rd: Alternatively, this was sometimes used as a second antiphon on the 18th, so still keeping the 17th as the starting date. The Latin is: “O Virgo virginum, quomodo fiet istud? quia noc primam similem visa es, nec habere sequentem. Filæ Jerusalem, quid me admiramini? Divinum est mysterium hoc quod cernitis.”. The English is “O Virgin of Virgins, how shall this be? For neither before thee was any like thee, nor shall there be after. Daughters of Jerusalem why marvel ye at me? The things which ye behold is a divine Mystery.” As yet other variations, some service books contained even more. the Sarum Breviary had nine antiphons, and in some traditions, there were twelve. The eighth and ninth additional antiphons were: 8. O Virgo virginum quomodo fied istud? quia nec primum tui similis visa est, nec habebis sequentum . Translation by Dom Guéranger: "O Virgin of Virgins, how shall this be? for never was there one like thee, nor will there ever be." An antiphon to Mary, the mother of Jesus, added, according to Julian, by Amalarius, and found in the Sarum, York, and Hereford Breviaries. According to Cook, it is included for the feast of the Expectation of the Virgin, Dec. 18. 9. O Thoma Didyme, qui Christum meruisti cernere: te precibus rogamus altisonis, succurre nobis miseris, ne damnemur cm impils in Adventu Judicis (an antiphon to St. Thomas the Apostle, whose feast day is December 21, found in the Sarum Breviary). These additions are not reflected in the hymn versions of Veni, Veni Emmanuel.

An Analysis of the O' Antiphons

12/15/2025

12/11/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrSFksEkY7w&t=38s

The identification of the Star of Bethlehem.