The Diocese of the Eastern United States Synod will be hosted by Saint George the Martyr Church, Simpsonville, South Carolina. The dates are 28th July to 1st August 2025. Committee meetings will be held on Monday and Tuesday. The Clergy Conference will be held on Wednesday morning and the opening of Synod will occur on Wednesday afternoon at 1pm. Please plan to stay for the banquet on Thursday night. An early travellers' Mass is the only Friday event. More details, including hotel information, are to follow. We look forward to seeing you there!
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This site is dedicated to the traditional Anglican expression of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ. We profess the orthodox Christian Faith enshrined in the three great Creeds and the Seven Ecumenical Councils of the ancient undivided Church. We celebrate the Seven Sacraments of the historic Church. We cherish and continue the Catholic Revival inaugurated by the Tractarian or Oxford Movement. Not tepid centrist Anglicanism.
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
2025 Lenten Devotional
The Anglican Province of America Lenten Devotional
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness. may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Tuesday, March 04, 2025
Sunday, March 02, 2025
The Wall Street Journal, Ten Years On
Ten years ago, on 3rd March 2015, my brother Father Brandon Holder Jones and I made the front page of the Wall Street Journal with this article about our conversion to the Sancta Catholica Ecclesia. We are identical twins and both priests in our respective Apostolic jurisdictions, the Anglican Province of America and the Roman Catholic Church. At the time, we joked that President Obama was actually below us on the front WSJ page! The article went viral and produced a remarkable array of reactions across the US and the world. Ten years on, by God's grace, we remain well and blessed, and more active than ever in pastoral ministry. God bless you.
Monday, February 24, 2025
Friday, February 14, 2025
Nicea 1700 Years On
We believe in one God, the Father almighty,
And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
begotten from the Father, only-begotten,
that is, from the substance of the Father,
God from God, light from light,
true God from true God, begotten not made,
of one substance with the Father,
through Whom all things came into being,
things in heaven and things on earth,
Who because of us men and because of our salvation came down, and became incarnate and became man,
and suffered, and rose again on the third day, and ascended to the heavens, and will come to judge the living and dead,
And in the Holy Spirit.
But as for those who say, There was when He was not,
and, Before being born He was not,
and that He came into existence out of nothing,
or who assert that the Son of God is of a different hypostasis or substance, or created, or is subject to alteration or change
– these the Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematises.
With these words, the original version of our Creed (nicknamed ‘N’) from the First Ecumenical Council of Nicea I, which Council was held from 20th May 325 to early July 325, we celebrate in
this new year of grace and salvation the 1700th anniversary of the First General Council of the Holy Catholic Church. We encourage all parishes and missions of the Anglican Province of America to observe a special day or Sunday this year in commemoration of God’s gift to us of our statement of Orthodox and Apostolic Faith in the Most Blessed Trinity and the true Deity and Incarnation of Our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ. If one waxes bold, one may use this original version of the Nicene Creed at a special liturgy, a Creed which both clearly affirms the Eternal Son of God as homoousios, being of One Substance or Essence with the Father, and condemns with equal clarity all the pernicious errors of the heresiarch Arius. It is a remarkable year in which to be a Catholic Christian! 2025 is a momentous year in the history of Christ’s earthly Kingdom, Holy Mother Church.
Tuesday, February 04, 2025
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