The American Church Union

07/14/2024

"ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us this good land for
our heritage; We humbly beseech thee that we may
always prove ourselves a people mindful of thy favour and
glad to do thy will. Bless our land with honourable industry,
sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence,
discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogancy, and from
every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one
united people the multitudes brought hither out of many
kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom
those to whom in thy Name we entrust the authority of
government, that there may be justice and peace at home,
and that, through obedience to thy law, we may show forth
thy praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of
prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day
of trouble, suffer not our trust in thee to fail; all which we
ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."

1928 Book of Common Prayer, p. 36

05/27/2024

https://youtu.be/QRJkj0YfakE?si=JwEmDXja-_IdFme-

A video to honor and remember those who have fallen defending our country.

05/07/2024

QUOTE FOR MAY 2024

“Human beings are not free, autonomous creatures defined by feelings but creatures made in the image of God and always defined by external relationships to God and each other.”

Trueman, Carl R.. Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity (p. 30). Crossway. Kindle Edition.

04/05/2024

QUOTE FOR APRIL 2024
"ALMIGHTY God, who through thine only-begotten
Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life; We humbly beseech thee that, as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever, one God, world without end. Amen."

Collect for Easter Day, 1928 Book of Common Prayer, p. 163.

03/07/2024

QUOTE FOR MARCH 2024

“It is for the Church to be a city set on a hill, the candle in the candlestick and the leaven in the lump. And what is the Church but the Body of Christ, of which, by God’s grace, you and I are members? It is not sufficient to know the truth; we must also do the truth. We are not to allow ourselves to be overawed by the immensity of the task; we are not to be fearful of the future, for that is in the hands of God; we are not to be cowed or shamed by the weapons or the words of the world. Each one in his own sphere and in his daily living and in his contact with his neighbour is to treat him as a person of like nature to himself, as a brother dearly loved of Christ, whom he must love as Christ loves…”

The Life of Raymond Raynes by Nicholas Mosley, p. 263, ACU Publishing

02/05/2024

QUOTE FOR FEBRUARY 2024

“Man is incurably religious because of his mortality. On Ash Wednesday we reflect on our mortality and the brief length of our lives. Ash Wednesday is our preparation to enter into Passiontide, the heart of Lent—the suffering, sacrificial death, and resurrection of the God-Man Jesus Christ. We die with Him that we might live with Him as He dies with us that we might rise with Him. Ash Wednesday and Baptism express (Ash Wednesday Liturgy, based on Genesis 3:19) this liturgically and sacramentally. Both lead us to the same end, the same mystery, eternal life.”

The Most Rev. Robert Sherwood Morse in ALL IS GRACE (ACU: 2017), 169.

01/04/2024

Quote for January 2024
“Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-woman. Three-quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.”
Mother Teresa, St. Teresa of Calcutta, Founder of the Missionaries of Charity (1910-1997)