Welcome to Saints Andrew & Matthias
We are located at 2415 McCann Road in the little village of Irving Michigan. In our historic (1878) brick building we use the historic King James Bible at all our services. We are traditional old fashioned Christians , using the old fashioned types of services from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. We feel it is our duty as Christians in the Church to try, with the Holy Spirit's guidance, to bring others to Christ and thereby change the world, and not to instead let the world change the Church.
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DEACON'S DIALOGUE
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Lent
Lent is a time of increased prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, to bring us closer to God, in preparation of the commemoration of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice for us on Good Friday. His great work on the cross, for us. At Saints Andrew and Matthias Anglican Church in Hastings, MI, I’ll be holding Evening Prayer with Litany Services at 6:30 p.m. EST, every Friday before Holy Week. The Litany could be called a “prayer for the whole world” or for “everyone and everything”. It was the first full service performed entirely in English, performed starting in 1544. It is likely the first full service that Cranmer wrote, according to Proctor and Frere’s A New History of the Book of Common Prayer (1910). I hope that, even if you cannot be there, that you will read the Litany (pp. 54, 1928 Book of Common Prayer) each Friday before Holy Week.
One of the beauties of the Book of Common Prayer is that we can all pray together, even when we are physically apart. We do this by following the same lectionary (we use the 1945 lectionary found in front of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer), for then we are reading the same scriptures. We do this when we say the daily office (i.e., Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer), for then we say the same prayers. It is a way that the physical church can resemble, the spiritual reality, that we, the church, are one body in Christ Jesus.
If you struggle to stay connected and use the prayerbook, then maybe Lent is just the time to devote your life in this way. However, do not let the great be the enemy of the good. If you do not pray every day, then this is the time to start. Say the Lord’s Prayer or the Short Form prayers (pp. 592 and 593) each morning and evening. If you don’t pray with your spouse or family, then now is the time to start. If you do not read scripture, pick at least one of the readings each day. Listen to the bible on your phone. If something gets in the way, maybe that is something to abstain from in some way. Whatever you do, do in recognition of the need for repentance and the great debt we owe our Savior, Jesus Christ. What should we not in return for what He has done for us?
With Prayers and Blessings,
Dcn. Nick Acker
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