All Saints Homilies and Teachings

In the second installment of our short series on the civics of the American Book of Common Prayer, we look at the civil prayers from Evensong, the prayers for the different branches of government and military in the occasional prayers and the general prayer for the country from the occasional prayers, and the connection between church, government, and school in the Bidding Prayer.

A Homily for Independence Day Texts: Deuteronomy 10:17ff, Matthew 5: 43ff

In honor of our nation's 250th Anniversary, we're doing a short series on the civics of the American Book of Common Prayer. In this first installment, we discuss some of the background history to the American church and look at the civil prayers from the American 1928 BCP.

Part 4 of our series on the Lord's Prayer Text: Matthew 6: 11, 26-end.

We conclude our section on Ecclesiastes with taking another look at the issues of Mortality, discussing "casting your bread on the waters," and Qohelet's own concluding remarks. Then we sum up Ecclesiastes and talk about New Testament perspectives.

Texts: Matthew 6:11, Mark 1:14-15; Part 3 of our Series on the Lord's Prayer

Mr. AJ Ellis continues our study in Ecclesiastes with chapters 9 & 10. We see some familiar themes with the universal end of all things, and more of the “nothing is better” statements, followed by a parable and some proverbial poetry as Qohelet begins to wind down the book.

The Address and First Petition of the Lord's Prayer

We continue in our study of Ecclesiastes with chapter 7. We discuss the importance of a name, Qohelet's claim that sorrow is better than mirth, and what it means to not be "overly righteous." Note: we didn't make it to chapter 8!

Part 1 of our 2026 Catechetical Homilies on the Lord's Prayer Texts: Matthew 6:5-15, Luke 11:1-8

Texts: Acts 2:1ff, John 14:15ff, Luke 11:9ff

Mr. AJ Ellis continues in Ecclesiastes with a discussion on wordy prayers, the problem of injustice, and the deceitfulness of riches.

Texts: John 15:26-16:4, Acts 4:7-20

Fr. Isaac continues our discussion of Ecclesiastes with chapter three and … part… of chapter four. We discuss understanding the time, work, and earthly injustice.

Text: John 16:23-32

Mr. AJ Ellis leads a discussion of the first two chapters of Ecclesiastes, talking about the need to ruminate on the riddles of this text, and how we often don’t fully “get it” until we look back on it.

Text: John 16:5-15

We begin our series on Ecclesiastes, giving a general overview of the book. For this fourth section of our classes on the Old Testament Wisdom Literature, Fr. Isaac is joined by AJ, one of our diaconal postulants.

Text: John 16:16-22

Several of our recent confirmands join for an open and free-form question and answer session.

We conclude our 2026 Confirmation and Reception classes with a discussion of the Ordinal and the Ordained Ministry. We primarily look at the Preface, the readings, and the ordination vows of all three Orders of Ministry.

Texts: John 20:19-23, 1 John 5:4-12

We conclude our overview of the Articles of Religion with a discussion of some additional issues related to church traditions and with a discussion on how the civil and religious spheres interact. Bp. Meade’s abridgment of the Homilies for the American church: https://a.co/d/07kNLhP2 Dr. Bray’s guide to the Homilies, “A Fruitful Exhortation”: https://a.co/d/0iONafOM

Main Text: Colossians 3

We conclude our study of Proverbs with chapter 31, looking at the sayings of an otherwise unknown king and an acrostic poem about the virtuous wife.