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St. Joseph Anglican Church embraces the divine truth that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, the Supreme Head of His Body- the Church. We belong to an Anglican branch of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, the United Episcopal Church of North America (UECNA). While coming from the American arm of the Anglican Communion and having our apostolic succession from these bodies, the UECNA does not belong to either of these organizations nor do we share their extreme liberal views on morals and their abandonment of orthodoxy.
We continue in the faith and practice taught by the apostles in caring for God's flock through Scripture, Tradition, Sacrament and Liturgy, guided by the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, keeping the theology in tact. UECNA, as a 'continuing' Episcopal Church, has reflected fidelity for three decades.
We believe God has given us a special position as a "bridge church"- a bridge between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. We proclaim a living way of faith and worship that believes in every person's right to life and we honor traditional marriage between a man and a woman.
UECNA is Biblically Sound, Sacramentally Orthodox, and Apostolically Valid. We are a church truly catholic and evangelical in scope and embrace a broad base of ceremonial practice inherent in the Historic Anglican Tradition.
We are catholic and evangelical in scope and embrace the broad base of ceremonial practice inherent in the Historic Anglican Communion - The Anglican Catholic Episcopal Tradition.
We offer you the chance to worship your Lord Jesus Christ in peace, honor, and dignity.
We invite you to join us at St. Joseph's Anglican Church.
Baptism is one of the two Sacraments universally recognized among Christians as instituted by the Lord and necessary to salvation. "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." This was Christ's command to the Apostles.
By baptism, a person is made a child of God, becomes a member of Christ's Body, is cleansed and reborn in the Spirit.
Baptism is, in a sense, a covenant between God and the person being baptized. Man agrees to renounce the Devil and all his works, to believe in God and to serve Him. For his part, God wipes out all sin-whether natural or original; He bestows grace and He accepts the person as His child. An infant, to be sure, cannot speak, nor reason, nor make promises. Therefore, sponsors or godparents speak for him. By this act, they take on responsibility of seeing to it that in later years the infant is brought to the Bishop for confirmation and thereby comes to a realization of his part in the covenant.
On the night when Jesus was betrayed into the hands of His enemies and taken to be crucified, at His Last Supper with His friends in that Upper Room in Jerusalem, He gave thanks and brake bread which He blessed and they all shared, and He said: "This is my Body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." And He blessed wine and said: "Drink ye all of this, for this is my Blood of the new testament which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins. Do this as oft as ye shall drink it in remembrance of me."
From that day till this the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper has been the central act of worship of the Church. It is known by at least six names: The Lord's Supper, The Holy Communion, The Holy Eucharist, The Blessed Sacrament (of the Body and Blood of Christ) The Mass, The Liturgy.
The Holy Communion is a Sacrament, that is to say, it is the "outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us" in this way. The outward and visible sign is the Bread and Wine, blessed with the very words Jesus Himself used in the Upper Room. The inward and spiritual Grace given to us is the divine life of Christ Himself, grace, a share in the very nature of God. We are united with Christ and His Spirit and Nature flows into us.
We at St. Joseph's Anglican Church celebrate the Holy Communion each and every Sunday.
The first, last and most fundamental thing to remember about Holy Matrimony is that it is a Christian Sacrament. It is a sacred act, blessed by Christ and His Church. It signifies the conferral and indwelling of God's grace on and in the man and woman thereby united. It is of divine making and it is forever. Its nature and sacramental character rest upon Christ's words as reported in the Gospel according to Saint Luke (10:8-9), "And they twain shall be one flesh; so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder".
A marriage is between a man and a woman.
St. Joseph Anglican Church embraces the divine truth that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, the Supreme Head of His Body- the Church. We belong to an Anglican branch of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, the United Episcopal Church of North America (UECNA). While coming from the American arm of the Anglican Communion and having our apostolic succession from these bodies, the UECNA does not belong to either of these organizations nor do we share their extreme liberal views on morals and their abandonment of orthodoxy.
We continue in the faith and practice taught by the apostles in caring for God's flock through Scripture, Tradition, Sacrament and Liturgy, guided by the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, keeping the theology in tact. UECNA, as a 'continuing' Episcopal Church, has reflected fidelity for three decades.
We believe God has given us a special position as a "bridge church"- a bridge between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. We proclaim a living way of faith and worship that believes in every person's right to life and we honor traditional marriage between a man and a woman.
UECNA is Biblically Sound, Sacramentally Orthodox, and Apostolically Valid. We are a church truly catholic and evangelical in scope and embrace a broad base of ceremonial practice inherent in the Historic Anglican Tradition.
We are catholic and evangelical in scope and embrace the broad base of ceremonial practice inherent in the Historic Anglican Communion - The Anglican Catholic Episcopal Tradition.
We offer you the chance to worship your Lord Jesus Christ in peace, honor, and dignity.
We invite you to join us at St. Joseph's Anglican Church.
Baptism is one of the two Sacraments universally recognized among Christians as instituted by the Lord and necessary to salvation. "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." This was Christ's command to the Apostles.
By baptism, a person is made a child of God, becomes a member of Christ's Body, is cleansed and reborn in the Spirit.
Baptism is, in a sense, a covenant between God and the person being baptized. Man agrees to renounce the Devil and all his works, to believe in God and to serve Him. For his part, God wipes out all sin-whether natural or original; He bestows grace and He accepts the person as His child. An infant, to be sure, cannot speak, nor reason, nor make promises. Therefore, sponsors or godparents speak for him. By this act, they take on responsibility of seeing to it that in later years the infant is brought to the Bishop for confirmation and thereby comes to a realization of his part in the covenant.
On the night when Jesus was betrayed into the hands of His enemies and taken to be crucified, at His Last Supper with His friends in that Upper Room in Jerusalem, He gave thanks and brake bread which He blessed and they all shared, and He said: "This is my Body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." And He blessed wine and said: "Drink ye all of this, for this is my Blood of the new testament which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins. Do this as oft as ye shall drink it in remembrance of me."
From that day till this the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper has been the central act of worship of the Church. It is known by at least six names: The Lord's Supper, The Holy Communion, The Holy Eucharist, The Blessed Sacrament (of the Body and Blood of Christ) The Mass, The Liturgy.
The Holy Communion is a Sacrament, that is to say, it is the "outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us" in this way. The outward and visible sign is the Bread and Wine, blessed with the very words Jesus Himself used in the Upper Room. The inward and spiritual Grace given to us is the divine life of Christ Himself, grace, a share in the very nature of God. We are united with Christ and His Spirit and Nature flows into us.
We at St. Joseph's Anglican Church celebrate the Holy Communion each and every Sunday.
The first, last and most fundamental thing to remember about Holy Matrimony is that it is a Christian Sacrament. It is a sacred act, blessed by Christ and His Church. It signifies the conferral and indwelling of God's grace on and in the man and woman thereby united. It is of divine making and it is forever. Its nature and sacramental character rest upon Christ's words as reported in the Gospel according to Saint Luke (10:8-9), "And they twain shall be one flesh; so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder".
A marriage is between a man and a woman.
