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Episcopal Basics: ‘Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi’ |
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Written by Hardee Mahoney
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Friday, October 19, 2007 |
A Users' Guide for Episcopalians
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi.
- The rule of prayer is the rule of belief.
- Go into any Episcopal church and you are almost certain to find the Book of Common Prayer in some form, available to all the worshipers.
- The Book of Common Prayer is much more than just a book of services and prayers. As it gives shape to our liturgies and words to our prayers it gives form to our beliefs and hopes; our works and our relationship with God.
Sometimes it is said that Episcopalians don't really believe in anything. We don't have a Pope or a Confession or official teaching body. But as we pray so do we believe.
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The Celtic & Benedictine Roots of Anglican Hospitality
For at least a century, if not two, before the Roman Emperor Constantine legitimized Christianity by making it the official religion of the Empire, Christianity had been growing and thriving in what we now know as the British Isles. This Celtic strand of Christianity that was in place probably by the 2nd century A.D. and [...]
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Vital Congregations as Communities of Practice
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by Wayne Whitson FloydWhat is a vital congregation? Is it simply a community of fervent conviction and shared belief about who we are, where we came from, why we?re here, and the direction the world is going? Or is congregational vitality to be measured by the emotional intensity of worship and songas evidence of [...]
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The Church as Episcopalians See It
To talk about ‘the church’ for Episcopalians always means the people, not a building. The Church is all those who are gathered at God’s invitation through their baptism, participation in Eucharist ,or participation in other services of Word and Sacrament.
For Episcopalians, it is our baptism that makes us full members of the Body of [...]
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