Saint George's Anglican Church

As Anglicans we are blessed with a Church Year to help us redeem our time. Through the ordered reading of Holy Scripture, our lives are sanctified and our days are given purpose.

First, in the Seasons of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent and Easter, as well as the Feasts of Ascension and Pentecost (including Trinity Sunday) the Church sets before us the saving life and work of Jesus Christ. As volume four of the Common Prayer commentaries puts it: "At Advent and Christmas with the celebration of the Incarnation ('taking on flesh') of Jesus; at Epiphany with the manifestation of our Lord to the Gentiles; at Lent with His fasting, temptation, agony, bloody sweeat, cross, passion, death and burial; at Easter with His glorious resurrection; at the Ascension; at Pentecost with His sending of the Holy Ghost to comfort us. During all this time the Church has made us remember with thankful hearts those unspeakable benefits we receive from the Father, first by His Son, and then by His Spirit. This (first) part of the Christian year concluded on Trinity Sunday when the Church gives praise and glory to the whole Trinity, three persons in One God".

Then, in the second half of the year (which takes in the whole of the Trinity Seson - the months of the Summer and Fall) the Church "prompts us to conform our lives to the truth we have seen in the first half of the year. As Christians we are not only to know that our salveation is in Jesus Christ, but we ourselves must become like Him.: (also form Common Prayer, volume four, p. 13, St. Peter Publications)

May God help us by His Spirit to make faithful use of the Church Year for His glory and for the cure of our souls.