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  The  1928 Book of Common Prayer was placed into  service with the intent that it would help bring those who used it into closer contact with God and encourage them to delve further into Scripture as their souls matured. Many key people in our country's history were serious users of the  Book of Common Prayer, from George Washington, to US Grant, to both Presidents Roosevelt, to  George Patton, to Douglas McArthur to George Marshall. General of the Army George Catlett Marshall (1880–1959), probably the most humble and brilliant military man in this country's history was a lifelong and active member of what was then the Protestant Episcopal Church of America, whose mantle the AOC has assumed.  He was taken with the 1928 Book of Common Prayer.  You should read this essay to see why:  The 1928 Book of Common Prayer: An Appreciation. https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/07/1928-book-common-prayer-appreciation-david-hein.html

Happy First Sunday after Easter! The AOC Sunday Report is available RIGHT HERE ! We have excellent sermons today from Bishops Jerry and Roy, as well as from Revs Jack and Bryan.  Rev Jack's is available to view on video  RIGHT HERE ! There are always a lot of people who need your prayer, there will never be an exception.   Please take a little time out of your day to pray.  Start with Mrs. Kay, Tricia, Shamu, Jim and Laurie, work out from there.  This is important. There is an EPIC week ahead, if you cannot see it and feel it, think about inviting the Holy Ghost into your soul that you might see the reality ahead. Have a super week! Godspeed, Hap Church of the Faithful Centurion Descanso, California United States of America

  Rev Jack's sermon is available on video  RIGHT HERE ! Sermon – Reverend Jack Arnold - Time and Action Church of the Faithful Centurion Descanso, California Today’s sermon brought the Collect, Epistle and Gospel together and is partly contained in the forewords above.    Consider these words from the Collect:   …  given thine only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification; Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may always serve thee in pureness of living and truth …   In the Collect, we acknowledge by the sacrifice made on Good Friday by the One and Only Perfect Man, a single sacrifice, made one time, for all mankind, for all time by our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Christ of God, we have eternal life.    Malice and wickedness are pervasive; like leavening, that is yeast, mixed into bread dough, they permeate our being, worming their way into the most remote corners of our souls, hearts and minds. Tiny, wanting only to be fed so t

The First Sunday after Easter . The Collect.   A LMIGHTY   Father, who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification; Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may always serve thee in pureness of living and truth; through the merits of the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord .   Amen.   Today’s Epistle came from the First General Epistle of Saint John, the Fifth Chapter beginning at the Fourth Verse:    W HATSOEVER  is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.  And there are three that bea

The First Sunday after Easter . The Collect.   A LMIGHTY   Father, who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification; Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may always serve thee in pureness of living and truth; through the merits of the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord .   Amen.   This prayer echoes the beauty of the resurrection of Christ. Had Christ only died for our sins, we would not have been benefitted with life; but He rose from the dead  –  and that makes our justification authentic. We, too, may enjoy life eternal through the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. We are justified by the law by the death and resurrection of Christ because the sin-debt has been paid by Him.   ALMIGHTY Father, who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification . The sinner is declared righteous through that righteousness of Christ who bore our sins. Therefore, we are justified and

  The First Sunday after Easter . The Collect.   A LMIGHTY  Father, who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification; Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may always serve thee in pureness of living and truth; through the merits of the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord.   Amen.   This prayer echoes the beauty of the resurrection of Christ. Had Christ only died for our sins, we would not have been benefitted with life; but He rose from the dead – and that makes our justification authentic. We, too, may enjoy life eternal through the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. We are justified by the law by the death and resurrection of Christ because the sin-debt has been paid by Him.  ALMIGHTY Father, who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification . The sinner is declared righteous through that righteousness of Christ who bore our sins. Therefore, we are justified and gu

  A ND ,  behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:  51   (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.  52   This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.  53   And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.  54   And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.    (Luke 23:50-54)               At the dawning of a pristine Sabbath morning in Israel more than 2,000 years ago, there was a deep silence which fell upon the hills and slopes of all the land. The Cedars of Lebanon waved their branches in the gentle breeze that was typical of that spring season in the region. Even on this Sabbath, Jordan continued her roll to her demise in the Dead Sea, and gentle Galilee reflected the rays of the morning sun on the same hillside at which t