September 2022
Spirit of the Eagle
St. John the Evangelist ACC
Spiritual Tidbits & Rector’s Reflections for
September 2022 from Father Tim
The last weeks of Summer 2022 have arrived as usual in September. It seems the year is traveling by quickly. This month on the Church Ordo Kalendar, in addition to the Trinity Sunday’s, we celebrate the Feast of S. Michael & All Angels (29th). September also contains three Anglican worthies: Blessed Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop & Confessor (25th), Blessed John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop & Martyr (20th), and Blessed Edward Bouvarie Pusey, Confessor (18th). This year I will share a tidbit about Pusey. E.B. Pusey was born August 22, 1800, in Berkshire, England and died September 16, 1882 at Ascot Priory. He was an Anglican theologian, scholar, and a leader of the Oxford Movement alongside John Keble and John Henry Newman, which sought to revive in Anglicanism the High Church ideals of the later 17th-century church. Pusey’s association with the Oxford movement began in 1833. Newman wrote of Pusey: “He at once gave us a position and a name”. Pusey was known as a warmhearted, sincere, and humble man, whose activities included the building of St. Saviour’s Church, Leeds, at his own expense, and service to the sick during the cholera epidemic of 1866. In 1845 he helped found in London the first Anglican sisterhood, which revived monastic life in the Anglican church. Conservative in his biblical criticism, he subscribed to the principle of revelation as interpreted by the historical authority of the church and opposed the use of philosophical systems in constructing a theology. His many books include The Doctrine of the Real Presence (1855) and The Real Presence (1857) as well as scholarly works, such as The Minor Prophets, with a Commentary (1860) and Daniel the Prophet (1864). Pusey House, Oxford, founded by his friends two years after his death, preserves his library and some personal effects. Now that Janet and I are becoming established in the Saint John Rectory, the time has come to begin reviving several ministries which will revolve around our little parish. The doors will be opened daily now. The Prayer Offices will be said daily. The Parish Hall is open for our members special occasions or events. Local ‘outreach’ is underway. The Vine (John xv.5) will be entwining outward from the corner of 8th & O’Fallon Avenue. Janet and I pray to become two of the branches. We also pray that this September all of you will choose to join this ministry, in some fashion, and become branches as well. Here am I; send me. (Isaiah vi.8) ~ Father Tim
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Is there someone you know who is broken? September is the perfect month to bring a friend to church to begin reviving their life by being engrafted into The True Vine. Please invite someone to St. John’s this September to glorify the Father and ‘bear much fruit’. ~ Father Tim
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Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God’s grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch. ~ Edward Bouverie Pusey, 1800-1882, Anglican Cleric and Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University for over 50 years
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Did you know?
Did you know that St. John’s made a charitable donation of supplies to Matthew 25 Ministries in August for the East KY Flood Victims? Did you know Fr. Tim & Janet are attending a Mission Retreat in Texas this September? Did you know the garden spotlights are once again lighting up our beautiful church at night? Did you know that both Morning Prayer (9:00 AM) and Evening Prayer (6:30 PM) are once again being recited daily at St. John’s? Did you know we will have a Catechism Class in September, October, and November?
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St. John September Ordo Kalendar
Sunday, the 4th of September at 10:30 AM, Trinity XII
Sunday, the 11th of September at 10:30 AM, Trinity XIII
Sunday, the 18th of September, at 10:30 AM, Trinity XIV, Vestry Meeting
Saturday, the 24th of September, at 9:30 AM, Catechism Class
Sunday, the 25th of September at 10:30 AM, Trinity XV
Morning Prayer at 9:00 AM and Evening Prayer at 6:30 PM Monday through Saturday unless otherwise notified.
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Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability; that in all charity may flourish, and truth may live. For our own Church, that what is lacking in it may be supplied; what is unsound, corrected; that all Heresies, Schisms, Scandals, as well public as private, may be removed. Correct the wandering, convert the unbelieving, increase the faith of the Church, destroy Heresies, discover the crafty enemies, crush the violent. ~ Lancelot Andrewes, 1555-1626, Anglican Bishop & Scholar who oversaw the translation of the Authorized King James Bible
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Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not. ~ Edward Bouverie Pusey, Anglican Cleric and Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University
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September Birthdays & Anniversaries
Jonelle Prideaux – September 1
Joanna & Jim Barnett – Anniversary – September 5
Robert Kleven – Birthday – September 12
Terry Mitchell Centers – September 13
Eliot Miller – September 15
Micheal Fraser – Birthday – September 26
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Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth. ~ John Wesley, 1703-1791, Anglican Cleric, Theologian, and Evangelist
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Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added. ~ Lancelot Andrewes, 1555-1626, Anglican Bishop & Scholar
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I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God’s creational intentions. ~ John Wesley, 1703-1791, Anglican Cleric, Theologian, and Evangelist
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The Blessed Edward Bouverie Pusey, Anglican Cleric and Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University for over 50 years commemoration day the 18th of September
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God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them. ~ The Blessed Edward Bouverie Pusey
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The seeking of Jesus Christ, and the quest for chivalry combined, lead directly to one place only: Anglican-Catholicism. Courage, honor, courtesy, justice, and a readiness to help and defend the weak and the poor. Welcome to the Anglican Catholic Church. ~ Father Timothy Butler