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Our Beliefs

Doctrine - We practice an ancient faith

As Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher once said, “The Anglican Communion has no peculiar thought, practice, creed or confession of its own...” but rather our aim is to hold to the faith of the ancient and undivided church.

As such, we define our Anglican rule of faith similarly to how it has been historically defined:

  • One Lord, Jesus Christ - the Word of God become flesh.

  • Two Testaments, Old and New - The final authority for all doctrine.

  • Three Creeds - Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian.

  • Four Ecumenical Councils - with the Christological clarifications of the 5th, 6th, and 7th.

  • Five Centuries - The consensus of the Fathers and the undivided Church of this early period.

The 39 Articles of Religion further define and show how our Anglican forbears clarified this ancient faith.

Sacraments - We receive real grace

We affirm and practice:

The Two Sacraments of the Gospel - the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper as ordained by Christ and necessary for all.

Also the Sacramental Rites - Confirmation, Ordination, Marriage, Absolution, and Anointing of the Sick.

Liturgy - We order our lives around God

Our worship follows the patterns laid out in the Book of Common Prayer. An easy way to define the content of the BCP is “Scripture arranged for worship.” 

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The Book of Common Prayer shapes our worship, our prayer lives, and the whole shape of our Church Year. The latin phrase Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi translates to - “how we pray is how we believe.” Thus, our liturgy clearly expresses our faith and helps us to live it out.

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“The Book of Common Prayer (2019) is a form of prayers and praises that is thoroughly Biblical, catholic in the manner of the early centuries, highly participatory in delivery, peculiarly Anglican and English in its roots, culturally adaptive and missional in a most remarkable way, utterly accessible to the people, and whose repetitions are intended to form the faithful catechetically and to give them doxological voice.”
~ Preface, The Book of Common Prayer 2019
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