My Anglican Heritage
Preserving. Proclaiming. Transmitting
The Anglican Catholic Heritage
“Thy testimonies have I claimed as mine heritage for ever:
for they are the very joy of my heart.”
— Psalm 119:111
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Preserving. Proclaiming. Transmitting
The Anglican Catholic Heritage
“Thy testimonies have I claimed as mine heritage for ever:
for they are the very joy of my heart.”
— Psalm 119:111
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Understanding the beauty, meaning and reverence of Anglican worship.
To provide a clear and faithful resource for understanding Anglican liturgical worship, its biblical foundations, sacramental life, prayers, ceremonies, seasons and symbols, and the reverence with which the Church approaches Almighty God.
This section seeks to explain not only what we do in worship, but why we do it, helping clergy and laity alike to participate more consciously, prayerfully, and faithfully in the Divine Liturgy.
This website is intended to be an information and teaching resource only. It is not intended to be a discussion forum or social media platform.
Anglican liturgical worship is marked by an ordered pattern of prayer, Scripture, confession, praise, thanksgiving and sacramental life.
The Book of Common Prayer has historically shaped this pattern, giving generations of Anglicans a common language of worship through which the Church gathers faithfully before God.
Its forms of worship express the conviction that Christian worship should be offered with dignity, reverence, understanding and faithful devotion.
The words of Our Lord Jesus Christ reside at the heart of the Christian faith. Through them we hear His call to faith, repentance, prayer, love, obedience, mercy, and holiness.
This section brings together selected sayings of Our Lord as recorded in Holy Scripture, that they may be read attentively and returned to often for prayer, meditation, instruction, and the ordering of our Christian lives.
The purpose is simple: to hear the words of Christ, receive them faithfully, and keep them in our hearts.
“Keep thy foot when thou goes to the house of God…”
— Psalm 122:1
“But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.”
— Habakkuk 2:20
“Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.”
—Lamentations 3:41
"But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup."
1 Corinthians 11:28
“Let all things be done decently and in order.”
1 Corinthians 14:40
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.…”
—James 1:22/p>
“The greatest blemish at Holy Mass are the worshipper who stand before THE ALMIGHTY while withholding reverence in body, attention in mind, obedience in will, and the devotion in their Souls.”
“And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.”
— St. Mark 12:30
Explore the people, places, worship, traditions and events that have shaped Anglican Christianity through the centuries.