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Aug 15

✝️ 🧵As if the beginning of St Michael's Lent isn't enough, today is also The Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Mary’s life points us to Jesus:

“My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour” (Luke 1:46-47)

Her humility and trust show what it means to say ‘yes’ to God.

🖼️The Virgin in Prayer
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato
1640-50

Anglicans honour Mary not as a distant figure, but as the faithful servant who bore Christ into the world, the one who treasured God’s Word in her heart.

🙏🏻In today’s liturgy we pray:

O God,
who hast taken to thyself the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of thine incarnate Son:
Grant that we, who have been redeemed by his blood, may share with her the glory of thine eternal kingdom; through the same Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord,
who liveth and reigneth with thee,
in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
ever one God,
world without end.
Amen.

🖼️The Virgin Mary in Prayer
Albrecht Dürer
1518

🙏🏻And The Collect:

Almighty and everlasting God,
who stooped to raise fallen humanity
through the child-bearing of blessed Mary:
grant that we, who have seen your glory
revealed in our human nature
and your love made perfect in our weakness,
may daily be renewed in your image
and conformed to the pattern of your Son
Jesus Christ our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.

🖼️The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right
Leonardo da Vinci
1508–12

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Aug 15

Most Christians have never heard of this…

A secret “mini-Lent” that starts today and ends with angels in September. 🕊️⚔️

It’s called St Michael’s Lent and here’s why you might want to keep it… 🧵

🖼️The Archangel Michael defeating Satan
Guido Reni
1635

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From 15 August (Feast of St Mary) to 29 September (Michaelmas), Christians in the Middle Ages kept 40 days of fasting and prayer to honour St Michael the Archangel.

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Why?
Because Scripture calls Michael the Protector of God’s people (Daniel 12:1) and Leader of Heaven’s Armies (Revelation 12:7–9).

This season was about spiritual battle, protection, and renewal. ⚔️

📷 Joao Mourao
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Aug 14

We trust you’re having a blessed day.

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Today we remember Roger Schutz, known as Brother Roger, who was a Swiss Christian leader and monastic brother who founded the ecumenical Taizé Community in France, dedicating his life to fostering reconciliation between Christian denominations and inspiring young people through a unique form of contemplative worship and communal living.

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"The more a believer wishes to live the absolute call of God, the more he or she has to insert that absolute into human misery" - Brother Roger Schutz

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He founded the Taizé Community in 1940 in Burgundy, France, as an ecumenical monastic community dedicated to reconciliation among Christians.

He developed a unique form of contemplative worship featuring simple, repetitive songs and periods of silence, which attracted thousands of young people from around the world.

📷 © Fédération Protestante de France

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Aug 13

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In today’s Daily Office, we remember Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), an influential Anglican clergyman, theologian, and author known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic prose style, who served as Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland and is remembered for his devotional writings, particularly "Holy Living" and "Holy Dying," which have had a lasting impact on Anglican spirituality.

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"Nothing does so establish the mind amidst the rollings and turbulence of present things, as a look above them and a look beyond them — above them, to the steady and good hand by which they are ruled, and beyond them, to the sweet and beautiful end to which, by that hand, they will be brought."
-- Jeremy Taylor

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Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) was an influential Anglican clergyman, theologian, and writer known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic prose style.

He served as chaplain to King Charles I and later became Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland after the Restoration.

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Aug 12

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In Tuesday’s Daily office, we remember Charles Inglis, consecrated in 1787 as the first Anglican bishop in North America for the Diocese of Nova Scotia, and was an Irish-born clergyman and ardent Loyalist known for establishing the Anglican Church in Canada, founding King's College, and navigating the challenges of building a colonial church amidst political and religious tensions.

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"The authority of bishops is purely spiritual; it has nothing to do with civil constitutions, or their different forms. It existed as fully when Christianity was persecuted, as it does now when Christianity is protected."
- Charles Inglis

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Born in Ireland in 1734, Charles Inglis became the first Anglican bishop in North America when consecrated as Bishop of Nova Scotia in 1787.

He served as Rector of Trinity Church in New York during the American Revolution, staunchly defending Loyalist and Royalist positions.

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Aug 11

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Today in The Daily Office, we remember Clare of Assisi.

She was an Italian noblewoman who became the founder of the Order of Poor Ladies, known for her devotion to a life of radical poverty and prayer, her leadership as abbess of San Damiano, and her role as one of the first followers of St. Francis of Assisi.

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“We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others." - Clare of Assisi

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Clare of Assisi (1194-1253) was one of the first followers of St. Francis of Assisi and founded the Order of Poor Ladies, later known as the Poor Clares

She embraced a life of radical poverty and prayer, rejecting her noble upbringing to live in service of Christ

Clare wrote a Rule for her order emphasizing absolute poverty, which was approved by Pope Innocent IV just before her death

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