Anno Domini 2026 June 6

Written By Michael Merz

Beloved of the Lord:

Today is Saturday, 6 June, in the year of our Lord 2026. The scheduled services are as-follows:


  • Sunday (tomorrow): 8:30 AM, Deacon's Liturgy, Sunday in the Octave of Corpus Christi.
    10:00 AM, Mass, Sunday in the Octave of Corpus Christi.
  • Monday: 10:00 AM, Mass, Of the Octave of Corpus Christi.
  • Tuesday: 5:30 PM, Mass, Of the Octave.
    6:30 PM, Sung Evensong, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
  • Wednesday: 12:10 PM, Sext.
  • Thursday: 6:30 PM, Evening Prayer, Movie Night.
  • Friday: NO SERVICES. Deacon's Liturgy, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
  • Saturday: Holy Communion.
  • Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 AM, Mass, Trinity II.

As you can see, there are a few changes to our usual weekly schedule of services. Please note the details, found above in the Kalendar. I will be attending a Conference in Alabama, of all places! I ask your prayers for my safe travel, and return.

I also ask your prayers for the elimination of ego, and of its attending arrogance, which have- and continue to wreak so much destruction within Holy Church. When ego raises its shiny, sleek, seductive head, we are, in that instant, distracted from God and, ultimately, our focus is redirected to ourselves. It causes protestants to re-imagine God in their own image. It causes catholics to believe that the structures that we build, and the men who inhabit them, are the means to salvation, rather-than the Christ who empowers both.

I know of no Jurisdiction or larger Tradition in the Church that is not currently, in this very instant, being driven to its knees, if not its destruction, by this one force. The old saying is that pride was Lucifer's sin, thus making it the first sin. Jurisdictionalism, denominationalism ~ these have become great troughs, full of slop ~ sin ~ for those who wander too close.

For the nonce, however, let us start where our Lord commands us so to do. We must find and remove the beam from our own eye, before we gaze ~ vision now restored ~ afield, seeking to restore spiritual sight to others. Even if we are only in-progress on that journey ~ remembering always that perfection is not attainable in this fallen world ~ we are better equipped to assist others in restoring their perception of God's true intent, and plan, for us. I remain


in His praise,

The Rt. Rev'd T. L. Crowder

Pastor, Saint Matthew's Parish

Michael Merz
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