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From Deacon Ron Reno:

Good morning! We are having a wonderful fall this year. I hope everyone will get out today or tomorrow and enjoy the beauty that God has surrounded us with. As the trees turn, put yourself under one and see the light filter through the leaves and take a moment to thank God. Our busy lives sometimes take us away from seeing the beauty around us; try to take 10 minutes every day in the quietness of outdoors, hear the birds singing and watch the ever-changing cloud formations. Prayers at  those times will have a special meaning for you and your soul. God listens.

We had a lovely sung Morning Prayer service along with the Communion of the Presanctified Gifts this last weekend. Nick led MP and we are blessed to have him. I have attached the bulletin for Trinity 16 if people would like to see the music from that service. I especially loved the anthem the choir sung before the announcements and the homily was given. “O Lord Give Thy Holy Spirit” by Thomas Tallis was especially reverent and well done. We are so blessed to have the talents of Nick, Julia, Julie and Lynda in this choir. They sing for the glory of God and that is our main purpose here.

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“O LORD, we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without thy succor, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen”

Attached are the homilies for Trinity 15 and 16 by Father Andrews. We are also blessed to have Father Andrews as our Priest in charge. Father will be here either October 14 or October 21st. Bishop Ashman also will be coming soon to visit us. We must pray for traveling mercies for these Holy men. These are modern men who continue to fight the good fight and keep the faith given to us by Jesus. Blessings, Deacon

From Deacon Ron Reno:

Father Andrews and his lovely wife Anneliese came from Fort Collins, Colorado this last Saturday for a visit. We were blessed with having the Holy Eucharist; thank you Father for your leadership and love for us. God’s children also gathered after church in festive brunch. It was a blessing to do the Gloria as a Scottish Chant and the closing hymn “Holy Father, Great Creator” was a nice “old school traditional” touch. This mission church is blessed to having such a wonderful choir and God loving people doing God’s work on this earth.

“Almighty and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve: Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us of those those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord, Amen.”

Attached is a homily from 2022 for Trinity 12 and a Pastoral Letter from The Most Reverend Blair William Schultz, Archbishop of the Anglican Province of Christ the King. God bless, Deacon

From Deacon Ron Reno:

Good afternoon! It is blazing hot 100 degrees (feels like 112) in Omaha today and I pray you are inside with working air-conditioning. Father Andrews and Anneliese are planning to be here Saturday. Pray for traveling mercies for them.

From the “The Imitation Christ” by Thomas A. Kempis 1418 AD:

“Enlighten me, Blessed Jesus, with the brightness of Thy inner light, and cast out forth all darkness from the habitation of my heart. Restrain my many wandering thoughts, and carry away the temptations which strive to do me hurt. Fight thou mightily for me, and drive forth the evil beasts that peace may be within Thy walls and plenteousness of praise within Thy palaces, even in my pre conscience. Command Thou the winds, and the storms, say unto the sea, ‘Be still,’ say unto the stormy wind, ‘Hold thy peace,’ so shall there be a great calm.”  God bless, Deacon

From Deacon Ron Reno:

Good news! Vestry members Lynda Wiiliams, David Sopscak, and I met with the new College of Saint Mary President Heather Smith this morning. We had a very cordial meeting, discussed many things, and found that CSM and Heather are very glad we are there with this mission church. We have common goals and the of love of God doing His work on this earth. We have been approved to continue use of this wonderful chapel for as long as we need.

Father Andrews and Anneliese are hopeful to be here August 26th. We have been blessed to have Father as Priest in charge. Pray for traveling mercies for them. God bless, Deacon

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From Deacon Ron Reno:

Good afternoon. We had a lovely Deacon’s Liturgy along with beautiful music last weekend. We have been having many visitors so I thought it would be a good time to talk about “What We Believe.”  Our doctrine is Catholic Doctrine with an Elizabethan twist. We do not try to reinterpret what the bible professes.

“We profess the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West; more particularly, as professed by the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all [medieval] and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the Doctrine of the Cross.”
Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, England (1637-1711)

We meet with the new CSM President, Heather Smith this Thursday,  August 17, at 11:00 am. Pray to have another year of the use of this wonderful chapel. May God bless, Deacon

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“Top of the day!” as the Irish would say upon greeting and my response would be “and the rest of the day to you.”  Best wishes to you as we start the month of August for many who have children going back to school and those who prepare to teach those children. May God give us His guidance.

We were blessed to have a full Mass on the 22nd thanks to Father Andrews coming. We were blessed to have his lovely wife Anneliese also. The Friday before, Nick spearheaded a gathering at his house and it was a spiritual and fun time. Nick even played his ancient pump organ. We are so blessed to have Father Andrews, Nick and a whole family of God lovers in our midst.

We had a lovely sung morning prayer service with the Presanctified Gifts last Saturday. The choral postlude “Fanfare and Air” by Henry Purcell from the 1680”s was very special. This Saturday will include a chanted Litany with sung responses, along with Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. May God continue to bless this mission church.

For you star gazers, we had a Supermoon last night and we will have a rare blue Supermoon August 30th. It will be the the biggest and brightest Supermoon of 2023. We are blessed to experience God’s creation.

From Deacon Ron Reno:

Top of day as they would say in “Merry Old England.” They may be eating strawberries and cream, drinking a Pimm’s Cup cocktail at Wimbledon; we are enjoying the beauty that God has blessed us with in Nebraska. I hope everyone can get out of the city and maybe enjoy someplace like the Mahoney State Park, our amazing world class Zoo or enjoy a drive to one of our local wineries. Check out the beauty that surrounds you. They say to stop and smell the roses. God would agree. We did the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts with the Litany last weekend, The Merbecke Gloria and Agnus Dei by the choir were exceptional. We are blessed to have so many God loving people around us.

The following is part of a homily given by Archbishop Robert Sherwood Morse several years ago. It is very poignant.

“The Church is the mystical Body of Christ. In its essence it is not a building, nor a society organized to do good. It is rather a communion, a mysterious Body in which we are all together in union with Christ. The Holy Spirit is everywhere. A teacher in a ghetto in New York City described to the children who had never seen a rainbow what it looked like. One little boy came to class and raised his hand and said, ‘I saw a rainbow today.’ The teacher said, ‘Where did you see it? I didn’t see one.’ The little boy said, ‘I saw it in the gutter.’ He had seen an oil slick, and to him it was a rainbow. The beauty, the love, and the truth of God the Holy Spirit are everywhere.”  God bless

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From Deacon Ron Reno:

Another fine weekend to live in Nebraska. We have been blessed with good weather although we could use more rain. We had a sung morning prayer service that included the “Communion of the Presanctifed Gifts.” Nick leads MP and is our organist too. I loved the Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel as the organ prelude. It is always a blessing to chant the Venite, the Psalms and the Te Deum. We are a work in progress in learning to chant these historic, Godly, and  venerated canticles. The choir sung the Agnus Dei.

Father Andrew’s homily hit home on our collect: “O God the protector of all that trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us thy mercy: that thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not things eternal. Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ’s sake our Lord. Amen” Please read Father’s homily when you get time.

Excerpts from Thomas A Kempis “The imitation of Christ.” I use this book to keep me focused on doing God’s work.

“Lord, I will willingly bear for Thee whatsoever Thou wilt have to come upon me. Without choice I will receive from Thy hand good and evil, sweet and bitter, joy and sadness, and will give Thee thanks for all things which shall happen unto me. Keep me from all sin, and i will not fear death nor hell.”  God, please grant us your armor and guidance, Deacon

From Deacon Ron Reno:

We had another blessed service last Saturday. Our epistle reading focused on humility and on being humble under the hand of God. It said to be sober and vigilant and  I think it was another lesson to understand the truth of Jesus. His good news asks us to be afraid of the devil, but to remain steadfast in the faith and share His good news in a humble fashion. We are witnesses as it says in Acts 1:8 but we pray for humility in our heart as we do His work on this earth.

Yes, we can evangelize because the Holy Spirit is given to us through baptism and confirmation. We all need to learn more about our faith but we have Christ as our sovereign leader, the Holy Spirit to help us with His evangelization and being God’s disciple as our goal. God bless, Deacon

From Deacon Ron Reno:

Good afternoon! Summer is hitting in full stride in Omaha with the high 80’s and low 90’s for the next 7 days. We prayed for it and it is here. The College World Series is finishing up in Omaha and I suspect the players are relishing the good weather. Our Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts last weekend included the chanting of the Litany. The history of the English litany comes to us as a Latin intercessory prayer including its petitions going back to the fifth century in Rome. The prayer book litany was the first English rite prepared by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and first published in English in 1544. It is the perfect gateway to the mysteries of the Eucharist. It is a noble gateway to our presanctified gifts. Through this litany is the preparation and humble intercession for the human race and leads unto the Gospel of Christ.

Our service this week will be without music. It will be much closer and reverent to how it was done in the early days of the church. We are blessed  to have the Presanctified Gifts available in this mission church. Thank you Father Andrews for being our priest in charge and having these presanctified elements available to us.

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