Anno Domini 2025 September 30

Beloved of the Lord:

Today is Tuesday, 30 September, in the year of our Lord 2025. The scheduled services are as-follows:

• Tuesday (today): 5:30 PM, Mass, S. Jerome, Confessor & Doctor.
  6:30 PM, sung Evensong.
• Wednesday: 12:10 PM, Mass, S. Remigius, Bishop & Confessor.
• Thursday: 6:30 PM, Mass, Holy Guardian Angels, followed by Soup & Supper.
• Friday: 9:00 AM, Mass, S. Therese of Lisieux, Virgin, with Gregorian Canon.
  Immediately following, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
• Saturday: 10:00 AM, Blessing of the Animals.
• Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 AM, Trinity XVI

Be certain to note the annual Blessing of the Animals, Saturday this-coming. Bring your own pets, and encourage your friends and neighbours to do the same. If you've not already done so, place the flyers provided by the Parish in veterinary offices, pet grooming businesses, and the like. Light refreshments will be provided for people and pets alike.

As-was discussed during- or after both services on Sunday, Anglicanism is in disarray, crisis, call it what you will, throughout our Country. The time has come to act, and that we shall. New models (to modern eyes), derived from Ancient sources, may yet save us from the failings of Twentieth century Anglicanism in its American expression. Look for further announcements, shortly.

As has been recently noted, we've been especially blessed at Saint Matthew's. We are peaceful, we are stable, we are loving. We've weathered multiple storms in recent years, brought to our doors by those who, in our desire to love all men as does our Lord, and to take them at their word, we have mistaken as leaders, only to watch as they reveal themselves as wolves. This is the problem for which a solution is being sought, which solution may now have been found.

Let us never allow our good fortune, our many blessings, to slip that short distance into complacency. There is an old saying that the job of the Clergy is to comfort the afflicted, and to afflict the comfortable. By way of affliction, I ask that you all rise up, in your service to our Lord. Greet the stranger, comfort the suffering, lift the fallen. Make sure and certain proof of your ministry, and swell the ranks of Saint Matthew's, with those who need Holy Church the Most. I remain

in His praise,

The Rt. Rev'd T. L. Crowder

Pastor, Saint Matthew's Parish