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Dutch Treat name Speculaas

Cookie Walk is Saturday, December 1st, from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM. We’re asking each parish family for ten pounds of cookies to make this year better than ever. To encourage your contribution, we’re providing recipes that have proven especially popular in the past.

Variations of speculaas (or speculoos) are common in the Low Countries, . . . → Read More: Dutch Treat name Speculaas

Hermits

Cookie Walk is Saturday, December 1st, from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM. We’re asking each parish family for ten pounds of cookies to make this year better than ever. To encourage your contribution, we’re providing recipes that have proven especially popular in the past.

Hermits are a traditional American recipe. They are a particularly flavorsome . . . → Read More: Hermits

The Cookie Walk Secret

The secret of a successful Cookie Walk is scrumptious, homemade COOKIES—your scrumptious home made cookies, to be precise. And every year the Parish Life Committee asks each parish family to contribute at least ten pounds of cookies to the Cookie Walk.

Just a few of the varieties of cookies available (Cookie . . . → Read More: The Cookie Walk Secret

All Saints Evensong

This evening’s Evensong for All Saints was a rousing success. The Gentlemen of the Choir sang an arrangement by the Choirmaster of Bainton’s And I Saw A New Heaven, and Canticles by Sumsion, with Preces and Responses after Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices. Isaac was appropriately attired for the occasion. The post-Evensong was a rousing . . . → Read More: All Saints Evensong

The Twenty–Second Sunday after Trinity

Lord, we beseech thee to keep thy household the Church in continual godliness; that through thy protection it may be free from all adversities, and devoutly given to serve thee in good works, to the glory of thy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Please help us to meet our 1,000 lbs sales goal

A Brazen Appeal from the Eagle

Saturday, December 1st is the date for our Twenty First Annual Cookie Walk. It will take place from 9:00 AM ’til 1:00 PM at the church. We have a great sale in the making, including wonderful cookies, jams and jellies, peanut brittle, bean soup, greens, table arrangements, wreaths, candied . . . → Read More: Please help us to meet our 1,000 lbs sales goal

All Souls’ Day

O God, the Maker and Redeemer of all believers: Grant to the souls of the faithful departed all the unsearchable benefits of thy Son’s passion, that in the day of his appearing they may be manifested as thy true children; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the . . . → Read More: All Souls’ Day

All Saints’ Day

¶ This Collect is to be said daily throughout the Octave.

O Almighty God, who hast knit together thine elect in one communion and fellowship, in the mystical body of thy Son Christ our Lord: Grant us grace so to follow thy blessed Saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to . . . → Read More: All Saints’ Day

Reformation Day

Our Lutheran friends celebrate Reformation Sunday on the last Sunday of October. But that’s because most Lutheran parishes have ceased celebrating feast days on their proper day, preferring to transfer them to the closest Sunday. (In all fairness, we Anglicans aren’t much better. How many parishes celebrate All Saints Day on November 1st with as . . . → Read More: Reformation Day

Wishing upon a star is no substitute for reality

Soon after I arrived in the United States I came to the conclusion that the nation had long ceased to be guided and inspired by the principles laid down in The Bible. Instead, its animating philosophy seemed to be based on the fantasies derived from “The Wizard of Oz”.

After all, diplomas and doctorates were . . . → Read More: Wishing upon a star is no substitute for reality