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On Spring Ember Day I, Moses admits, “The burden is too heavy for me.” God does not shame him. He provides. Pray for faithful clergy, ask what Christ has entrusted to you, and remember: we plant and water, but God gives the growth.
Four times a year, the Anglican calendar sets aside three days for fasting, prayer, and intercession for the Church's ministry. Most Anglicans have never heard of them. Here's what Ember Days are, when they fall, and how to observe them.
Saint Matthias almost disappears from the biblical record after Acts 1, but Christ knew him, chose him, and appointed him to bear fruit. His feast reminds us that obscurity is not insignificance: the Christian calling is to abide in Christ, remain faithful, and trust him with the fruit.
February 24 is the Feast of Saint Matthias. He followed Jesus from the beginning, witnessed the resurrection, was chosen by lot, and is never mentioned again in the New Testament. The feast of the faithful unknown; a Red-Letter Day for the man no one remembers.
First Sunday in Lent: Led by the Spirit, Jesus faced three wilderness temptations and overcame each one with Scripture alone. As the second Adam, his obedience wins what Adam lost — and offers us his righteousness as a gift. This Lent, follow him into the wilderness.
The Great Litany is one of the oldest and most distinctive prayers in the Anglican tradition. Long before the first Book of Common Prayer appeared in 1549, English Christians were already praying a form of the Litany in their own language.