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)

12/06/2023

QUOTE FOR DECEMBER 2023

ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.

---1928 Book of Common Prayer, Collect for Advent, p. 90

11/04/2023

QUOTE FOR NOVEMBER 2023

"Nancy and I once visited Auschwitz in Poland, the infamous death camp of the N***s, a place of horror and sadness... It was more than a temporary death factory. It was a permanent emplacement. Hi**er said that during the war they would do in the Jews and the gypsies. After the war they would kill Christians and capitalists, then the mentally defective and physically malformed, and on and on. This nihilistic vision ends in nothingness. My generation battled this evil, until victory. This generation must battle a similar evil."

The Most Rev. Robert Sherwood Morse, ALL IS GRACE (ACU 2017), 193, in a sermon preached at St. Joseph’s Chapel, Berkeley, 2001

10/04/2023

QUOTE FOR OCTOBER 2023
"Jesus draws to himself all true love, lifts it up to God and then sends it forth again, and this principle runs through the whole of life: each of us has to show forth that love of God and of his fellows."

Raymond Raynes, Superior, Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield, England, in Darkness No Darkness (London: Faith Press, 1958; ACU re-issue, 2014, 52)

09/04/2023

QUOTE FOR SEPTEMBER, 2023
"Great thinkers throughout history—Christian and non-Christian alike—have understood the moral life to be one and the same as the happy life, even if this claim does not initially resonate with what many of us today think of when we say morality... There are five large goals driving the tone and structure of this book’s exploration of the central question, what is a good life? The first echoes what was said above: to present the riches of the Western (particularly Christian) traditions of moral thought in an accessible and hospitable manner."

Mattison III, William C.. Introducing Moral Theology: True Happiness and the Virtues (pp. 12-13). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

08/03/2023

QUOTES FOR AUGUST 2023

“Maybe the reason we never feel fully satisfied in this life is because we were created for the life to come.” John Burke in Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God’s Promises, and the Exhilarating Future that Awaits You (Baker: 2015), 59.

“I RECKON that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature… shall be delivered from the bo***ge of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now… even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” St. Paul, Letter to the Church in Rome, Book of Common Prayer 1928, p. 194, Fourth Sunday after Trinity, KJV Romans 8:18+

07/05/2023

QUOTE FOR JULY 2023

"Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."

St. James 1:21-25, KJV