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The Traditional Anglican Tradition
Saint Francis Anglican Church is orthodox and
sacramental,
continuing in the teaching and fellowship of the apostles and in the
breaking of bread, which was established by Christ as the design for the
life of the Church.
As faithful stewards of the Catholic Faith in the
Anglican tradition, our teaching and practice is based solely on the
Holy Bible as interpreted by the universally accepted
Ecumenical
Councils held by the whole Christian Church before any divisions took
place; and the traditional Book of Common Prayer, which demonstrates
both our Catholic Faith and Evangelical witness.
Indeed the best way to understand our faith and practice is to take a
Bible, a copy of the historic Book of Common Prayer, and come and
worship with us. The center of our worship is the Holy Eucharist, also
called Holy Communion, the Mass, the Lord's Supper, and the
Divine
Liturgy. It is the only service recorded in the New Testament as having
been given us by Christ himself. You will find that our liturgical
worship involves the whole person - body, mind, and spirit, allowing us
to be active participants rather than mere listeners.
Services and Location
We
celebrate a Mass every Sunday at 9:00 am at the Oregon Latvian Center Chapel,
located at 5500 SW Dosch Road, Portland, Oregon. This is just off the
Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway and the building is in a wooded knoll next to the
Neveh Shlom Synagogue. You can find more details about our location and how to
get there by using the FINDING US selection at the left.
We use the 1940 Hymnal and the 1928 American Book of Common
Prayer augmented by the American Missal.
Reflections
| | God's delight in the work of His hands |
| | The Very Rev. Michael A. Cosanzo |
| | We read that God’s creation was completed, by making man, and that looking upon all that He made, God saw it as very good. We read a few more pages and find something quite different: It repented God that He had made man, for the imagination of the thought of man’s heart had become continuously evil. - Nevertheless God’s delight in the work of His hands continues to prevail. He rejoices infinitely in having created us; moreover He rejoices in the “us” that He has made, in spite of the pitiful imagination of the thoughts of our sinful hearts. - His crown of satisfaction, in what He created was made perfect in His Beloved Son, and we are in His Son. God can look upon the man that He has made, and find His work good, because He looks upon the man Jesus Christ and sees the Son of His love, in whom He is well pleased. |
Last update: Friday 13 January 2012 at 1932 PST
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SERVICE
SCHEDULE
Sunday:
Mass at 9:00 am
Other Services and Holy
Days of Obligation as announced on the
Parish Schedule page.
Parish Pictures
Prayer for Peace
Lord, make me an instrument of Your
Peace.
Where there is hatred, Let us sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon:
Where there is doubt, faith:
Where there is despair, hope:
Where there is darkness, light:
Where
there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may seek not
so much to be consoled as to console: to be understood as to
understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we
receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying
that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen.
- St. Francis of
Assisi
VIDEO
A video on What It
Means to be an Anglican may be found under the Media tab (at the
left)
Under The Franciscian
Newsletter tab you will find the presentation by Mr. Chad Hart to
the 2009 DOW Synod on Nashotah House.
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