Short Talks
This section of the website comprises short stand-alone talks and articles on different aspects of the Christian Faith, including the teaching of Jesus, the seasons of the Church’s Year and Feasts and Festivals. More talks/sermons/homilies/articles will be added in due course.
The section of the website entitled The Christian Faith provides more extended teaching on larger content areas, such as the Creed and the Sacraments.
Michael and All Angels
The festival of St Michael and All Angels is celebrated on 29 September. The liturgical colour is white. The name Michael means ‘Who is like unto God?’ (1) – implying that no one is like God.
Lammas Day
Tucked away in the Book of Common Prayer Calendar on August 1st you will find Lammas Day. This is said to go back to the Anglo Saxon practice of offering loaves of new corn on this day at a special Mass – hence Lammas or Loaf Mass derived from the Anglo-Saxon Hlafmaesse. So Lammas Day was a kind of Harvest Thanksgiving related to the beginning of the Harvest rather than its end. The ceremony did not survive the Reformation but has been revived in more recent times in some places. You will find Common Worship provision here. (1)(2)
Feasts and Festivals
This section in Holy Faith focuses on the Feasts and Festivals of the Church's Year. More content will be added. See also Saints.
References
Biblical references are included in brackets in the text. Other references are listed at the end of each talk.
Scripture quotations are mostly from New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicized Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The initials NRSV are used at the end of these quotations.
Some Scripture quotations are from Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, and 1971 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The initials RSV are used at the end of these quotations.
A few quotations are from the Jerusalem Bible, copyright © 1966 by Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd and Doubleday & Company, Inc. The words Jerusalem Bible are used at the end of these quotations.
An occasional quotation is from The Catholic Edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1965, 1966 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. ‘Catholic edition RSV’ appears at the end of these quotations.