Installation as Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America

 

Our family

 

Enthronement as Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Eastern United States

Please join us for the livestreamed YouTube video of the Enthronement Mass for the new Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Eastern United States of the Anglican Province of America on Thursday 22nd July at 5pm EDT.

Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America

With praise to Almighty God and gratitude for the confidence of my brother bishops, I am humbled and overwhelmed to announce my election as Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America by the APA House of Bishops. The election must be ratified by the Provincial Synod this month. Of your Christian charity, I beg your prayers for my family and me. God bless you all.

May Jesus Christ be praised - and may all be to His glory and honour.

Please join us for the livestreamed YouTube video of the Installation Mass for the new Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America on Friday 23rd July at 10.15am EDT.

Episcopal Chair

With indescribable gratitude to Father James Danford and for his incredible carpentry skills, we are elated to present the new Episcopal Chair for the Anglican Province of America at Saint Barnabas Cathedral Atlanta.

Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America

With praise to Almighty God and gratitude for the confidence of my brother bishops, I am humbled and overwhelmed to announce my election as Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America by the APA House of Bishops. The election must be ratified by the Provincial Synod this month. Of your Christian charity, I beg your prayers for my family and me. God bless you all.

May Jesus Christ be praised - and may all be to His glory and honour.

All parishioners and friends of Saint Barnabas Atlanta are cordially invited to attend the Installation Mass of the Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America in the parish at 10.15am on Friday 23rd July.

7/4/2021 - Independence Day Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

Enthronement as Diocesan Bishop - 22nd July 2021

All parishioners and friends are cordially invited to attend the Enthronement Mass of Bishop Chandler Holder Jones SSC as the Fourth Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Eastern United States of the Anglican Province of America at Saint Barnabas Church, Dunwoody, Georgia at 5pm on Thursday 22nd July 2021. Please make plans now - and God bless you!

25 Years a Deacon today!

 

25th Anniversary of Sacred Diaconate

8th June 2021 is the 25th Anniversary of my Ordination to the Sacred Diaconate by the Most Reverend John T. Cahoon, Junior at Saint Anne's Church, Charlotte Hall, Maryland in the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic States. Please say a prayer for me on the special day.

6/6/2021 - Corpus Christi Sunday Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

6/3/2021 - Corpus Christi Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

5/13/2021 - Ascension Day Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

5/9/2021 - Rogation Sunday Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

4/25/2021 - Sunday Mass for the Feast of Saint Mark - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

50

20th April 2021 is my 50th birthday! - and that of my identical twin brother,

Father Brandon Holder Jones - please say a prayer for us on the day. God bless you.

4/18/2021 - Easter II Mass -Saint Barnabas Atlanta

4/11/2021 - Low Sunday Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

4/4/2021 - Easter Day Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

4/2/2021 - Good Friday Solemn Liturgy - Saint Barnabas Church Atlanta

4/1/2021 - Maundy Thursday Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

3/28/2021 - Palm Sunday Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

3/14/2021 - Fourth Sunday in Lent Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

3/7/2021 - Third Sunday in Lent Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

2/28/2021 - Lent II Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

2/21/2021 - First Sunday of Lent Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

2/17/2021 - Ash Wednesday Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday 2021

AT SAINT BARNABAS DUNWOODY:

Sacramental Confessions will be heard on Shrove Tuesday, 16th February, at 4pm.

Holy Communion with the Penitential Office and the Blessing and Imposition of Ashes will be celebrated on the First Day of Lent, Ash Wednesday, 17th February, at Noon and 7pm. The Noon Eucharist will be said. The 7pm Solemn High Mass will be sung by the choir and will feature congregational singing.

Sacramental Confessions will be heard on Ash Wednesday at 11am and 6pm.

Bible Study is cancelled on Ash Wednesday.

2/14/2021 - Quinquagesima Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

Ordination and First Mass of Father Creighton McElveen at Saint Barnabas Atlanta

 

2/11/2021 - The Priestly Ordination of Father Creighton McElveen

2/7/2021 - Sexagesima Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

1/31/2021 - Septuagesima Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

1/24/2021 - Epiphany III Sunday Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

1/17/2021 - Epiphany II Sunday Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

1/10/2021 - Epiphany I Sunday Mass - Saint Barnabas Atlanta

1/6/2021 - Epiphany Solemn High Mass - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

1/3/2021 - Christmas II Sunday Mass - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

The Circumcision of Christ

Why do Traditional Anglicans observe something so seemingly esoteric as the Circumcision of Our Blessed Lord on 1st January? I shall never forget a New Year's Day during my seminary formation, when returning to my flat from Mass on cold sunny 1st January I was greeted at my door with a lovely envelope. Inside was a splendidly calligraphed card which read 'Happy Circumcision!' Anglicans have always possessed a keen sense of humour. 

Primarily, the Feast is most significant because the first day of January is the Octave of Christmas Day, the eighth day after Christ's Nativity, on which Our Divine Lord was subject to the Mosaic Law for the salvation of man and received the Old Testament ordinance of circumcision. In the Circumcision of Jesus Christ, Our Lord first shed His Precious Blood for the redemption of the human race. It was the first time in the history of salvation that our Saviour and Redeemer submitted to His bloodshedding, that shedding of blood without which there is no remission of sins (Hebrews 9.22), and through which the Lord Jesus takes away our sins. 

Since it is first instance in which the Blood of Christ was shed, this salvific moment is a beginning of the process of the redemption of mankind, a manifestation of Our Lord's full and complete human nature. In this act, Our Lord is obedient to Biblical Law, a Law He came not to destroy but to fulfill (Saint Matthew 5.17). As a foretaste of His saving Passion, the Circumcision already points to the suffering of Jesus Christ in His true humanity, offered freely for our sake. 

The Anglican divine Blessed Jeremy Taylor writes in a 1657 treatise that the Circumcision of the Lord proves the reality of His human nature whilst fulfilling the Law of Moses. Blessed Jeremy also notes that Our Lord's Circumcision more radically opens the Jewish people to receive His Gospel of salvation, since through the ancient ordinance He is conformed to the old covenant in the pattern of its initiation. The Lord Jesus is the personification and fulfillment of Israel. 

Circumcision itself was instituted by God in the Old Testament as a sign of the covenant between God and His people. The blood shed on the eighth day after birth was a ratification of the covenant for every Jewish male. By virtue of it, every Jew became a son of Abraham, a son of the promise: 'And God said to Abraham, This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed' (Genesis 17.9-12).

Initially, Abraham received circumcision as a sign of his faith in God. God made His covenant with Abraham because Abraham believed in Him. Faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness. He received circumcision as a sign of the righteousness he already had by faith before he was circumcised. The sign shows him to be the father of all who believe without being circumcised and who therefore have faith reckoned to them too. He is also the father of the circumcised, who more importantly follow the example of his faith (Romans 4.9-12). 

Now, through faith in Jesus Christ and union with Him, all who are baptised into Christ and made members of His Mystical Body, the Holy Catholic Church, are made the sons of Abraham and inserted into the covenantal promise God first offered in Abraham. 'And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise' (Galatians 3.29). The covenant God seeks with man is perfected and fully consummated in the Person of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Son of Abraham, the Promise of Abraham. He is the Bridge between God and man, for He is fully God and fully Man in His One Divine Person. In His hypostatic union, divine nature and life is for all eternity united to our human nature. Jesus Christ is the God-Man, and forever unites God and man in Himself.  

Our Blessed Saviour was circumcised on the eighth day, as any other Jewish male. After the seven days of creation comes the Eighth Day, the Day of the New Creation. Just as the Lord was raised from death on the Eighth Day, the Day of Resurrection and the eternal Kingdom, so was He also circumcised to inaugurate the New and Everlasting Covenant, the new relationship between God and mankind which is extended to all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues. Whereas the old covenant was ethnic, local, and particular, the New Covenant is truly Catholic - intended for all human beings of all times and all places. Holy Baptism replaces and fulfills circumcision as the sign of the covenant. 

Circumcision was the occasion on which a Jewish child was formally given his name. At His Circumcision, Our Lord was given the Name which is above every Name (Philippians 2.9-10) - JESUS, Yeshua - a Name derived from Hebrew meaning 'the Lord saves' or 'salvation' or 'Saviour.'  As the Archangel Gabriel annunciated to Our Lady: 'And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus' (Saint Luke 1.31). And as was announced to Saint Joseph: 'Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins' (Saint Matthew 1.20-21). 

'And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb' (Saint Luke 2.21).

The Council of the Holy Apostles recorded in Acts of the Apostles 15 declares that Christians are no longer bound to receive the old rite of circumcision. Our union with Jesus Christ is accomplished through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism. Through the gift and grace of Baptism, we are plunged into Christ's life, death, and resurrection and placed into the human nature of Our Lord. We receive a 'human nature transplant' in Baptism as we are grafted into the risen Body of Jesus. We are bodily united to Christ in His own Body; Baptism washes us in His Precious Blood. 'In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead' (Colossians 2.9-12). 

It is no longer required for our flesh to be circumcised because Our Lord's Body and Blood redeem us entirely and completely. We can add nothing from the ceremonial law of the old covenant to the Person and Work of Jesus Christ for our salvation - the New Covenant between God and man is now absolute (Hebrews 10.10).  

Rather, baptised Christians are summoned to what Saint Paul calls 'the circumcision of the heart,' a moral transformation in which we live by the Holy Ghost through the infused theological virtues of faith, hope, and love. From henceforth we are to walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5.16). 'For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love' (Galatians 5.6). Saint Paul tells us the true circumcision is not external or physical. The true participant in God's covenant is one inwardly, for real circumcision is a matter of the heart, spiritual, and his praise is not from men but from God (Romans 2.28-29). Supernatural grace raises us to divine sonship - so that we may become true filii in Filio, sons in the Son, heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ. 

Happy Circumcision - God bless you!

+Chad

Happy Christmas!

May the Lord Jesus grant all of you, my dear friends, a truly blessed, happy and holy Nativity of the Saviour! Merry Christmas! And remember, let us put MASS back in Christmastide!

Christmas Solemn High Mass - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

12/20/2020 - Advent IV Sunday Mass at Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Christmas at Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

The 2020 CHRISTMAS MASS SCHEDULE: Thursday 24th December, Outdoor Carol Singing at 6.30pm and Christmas Eve Holy Communion 7pm. Outdoor Carol Singing at 9.30pm and Christmas Eve Sung Holy Communion 10pm. Friday 25th December, Christmas Day Holy Communion 10am.

Important notice about the Christmas liturgies: We shall enjoy a time of outdoor carol singing in the plaza in front of the Church at 6.30pm before the 7pm Eucharist, and again at 9.30pm before the 10pm Eucharist. Masks and social distancing are still required at all times for everyone while inside the building, please.

· The 7pm Christmas Eve Eucharist will have no indoor music except for the playing of the organ.

· The 10pm Christmas Eve Solemn High Mass will be sung and the congregation will be invited to sing Christmas hymns and the liturgical responses inside the building. The choir will sing the liturgy. This unique 10pm service will be offered for those who feel safe and comfortable singing in Church.

· The 10am Christmas Day Eucharist will have no indoor music except for the playing of the organ.

12/13/2020 - Advent III Sunday Mass - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

High Altar

The new High Altar Tabernacle for the Most Blessed Sacrament, and new reliquaries of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Ignatius of Antioch, and Saint Gregory Nazianzus at Saint Barnabas Dunwoody.

12/6/2020 - Advent II Sunday Mass - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

11/29/2020 - Advent Sunday Mass at Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

11/22/2020 - Sunday Next Before Advent Mass - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

11/15/2020 - Trinity XXIII Sunday Mass - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

11/8/2020 - Trinity XXII Sunday Mass at Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

11/1/2020 - All Saints' Day - Sunday Mass at Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

10/25/2020 - Sunday Mass for the Feast of Christ the King - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Sunday Mass - October 18, 2020 - Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Trinity XVIII Sunday Mass - 10/11/2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Trinity XVII and Saint Francis of Assisi Sunday Mass - 10/4/2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Trinity XVI Sunday Mass - 9/27/2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Communio Sanctorum: Invocation of Saints as the Family Prayer of the Church

 As recorded on 1st September 2020.

Trinity XV Sunday Mass - 9/20/2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Tenth Anniversary of Episcopal Consecration

18th September 2020 is the tenth anniversary of my consecration as a Bishop in the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church - for service in the Diocese of the Eastern United States of the Anglican Province of America. Please pray for me on this day as I pray for you. Thank you and God bless you.

Trinity XIV Sunday Mass - 9/13/2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Visions of Glory: Beauty and Sacred Art within the Devotional Life of the Church

 

Trinity XIII Sunday Mass - 9/6/2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Trinity XII Sunday Mass - 8/30/2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Trinity XI Sunday Mass - 8/23/2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Communio Sanctorum: Invocation of Saints as the Family Prayer of the Church.

Our next special event is Tuesday September 1st at 8pm. Bishop Chandler Jones will be giving a Zoom talk called Communio Sanctorum: Invocation of Saints as the Family Prayer of the Church.
To attend, you must join our Patreon:

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The Ordination of Creighton McElveen to the Sacred Diaconate

Trinity X Sunday Mass - 8/16/2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Trinity IX Sunday Mass - August 9, 2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

The Diaconal Ordination of Creighton Campbell McElveen

The Ordination of Creighton Campbell McElveen to the Sacred Order of Deacons will be celebrated at Saint Barnabas Church, Dunwoody, Georgia on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saturday 15th August, at 11am. The Ordination Mass will be open to the public. Please join us for this very special event on the major Feast of Our Lord's Mother!

Anglican Joint Synods (G4) - Polish National Catholic Church Dialogue

G4/PNCC Press Release:

On July 28th, 2020, the G-4/PNCC Ecumenical Dialogue Group met via Zoom. This took the place of the

scheduled in person meeting that was to be held in Manchester, New Hampshire. Representing the

Polish National Catholic Church were Prime Bishop Anthony Mikovsky, Bishops John Mack and Paul

Sobiechowski, Father Senior Robert Nemkovich Jr., and Fathers John Kowalczyk, Scott Lill and Thomas

Walsh. G-4 members included Bishops Paul Hewett (Diocese of the Holy Cross - DHC), Walter Grundorf

(Anglican Province in America - APA), Chandler Jones (APA), and Brian Marsh (Anglican Church in

America - ACA), and Fathers Robert Bader (DHC), Jonathan Foggin (Anglican Catholic Church - ACC), and Christian Tutor (ACA). Bishop Sobiechowski served as the Dialogue Chairman for this meeting.

Updates were given by the various churches and the Union of Scranton about recent events within their

respective communions and to how they have adapted to the ongoing Covid situation. The Churches

spoke with a united voice about the marginalization of the Church by the media and various elected

officials during this pandemic. The members participating were of one accord affirming that Church is

absolutely essential for the faithful to live out their Catholic Faith and Sacramental lives: especially

during this time of anxiety and pandemic. The dialogue also discussed various ways the Churches can

continue to grow closer together and achieve the unity that our Lord prayed for His Catholic Church.

The next meeting of the G4/PNCC Ecumenical Dialogue will take place in January of 2021 to be hosted

by the G4 Churches.

Trinity VIII Sunday Mass, Aug 2, 2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

The 1920 Anglo-Catholic Congress

The Anglican Joint Synods Churches (G4) are the heirs of this great Congress, held a century ago this month...

And a must read for every Anglican... 

Trinity VII Sunday Mass, July 26 2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Trinity VI Sunday Mass, July 19 2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

Phase Three Restoration - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody

My dearly beloved friends, Praised be Jesus Christ! I pray all of you remain well, safe, and healthy. I love you, am praying for you daily, and am missing those of you who have not yet returned to Church! It is a joy and delight to see week by week those who have now already returned. Please remember I am only a phone call or email away should one need any pastoral care and support, 404.313.9448 and bspchj@gmail.com. I intensely look forward to seeing you in person again soon. Saint Barnabas Church will enter our Phase Three restoration on Sunday 26th July, with two additional features. 1. One cantor, liturgical music, and incense will be restored to the 11am Mass. 2. An outdoor coffee hour with pre-packaged goodies will be provided after each Eucharist. A cantor will now provide liturgical singing during the 11am Mass, to which also the sung minor propers, an offertory anthem, and incense will be restored. Our outdoor Sunday coffee hour with pre-packaged drinks and snacks, and a safely-prepared and served coffee carafe, will take place after both the 9am and 11am services in the plaza in the front of the Church complex. Please be well assured that attending Saint Barnabas is no more risky now than going to the grocery store, the service station, or one's favourite restaurant. Masks and social distancing are still required indoors, just to keep everyone as safe as possible. The same applies to our ongoing Holy Communion protocol of one kind in the hand only. These measures are continued in order to provide an additional level of safety. There is no time like the present in which to return to Church every Sunday. Please do not forget to talk to your friends and neighbours about visiting Saint Barnabas. And please continue to reach out and connect with each other. Ours is a time of personal crisis, frustration, and change for many people, which means we have a ripe opportunity to approach colleagues and acquaintances about trying something new. Be bold! You will surely be surprised by the positive reactions. The doors of Saint Barnabas Church are open wide to welcome everyone. Each one of you abides continually in my love, my prayers, my heart. Thank you so very much and God bless you! +Chad

Validity of evangelical Baptisms

This article will surely make the rounds on social media. 

Some minutiae of orthodox theology for just a moment, please. While a Baptism celebrated by two separate ministers, during which one administers the water while another simultaneously utters the sacramental formula, is definitely invalid, the mode of Baptism generally employed by Baptists and other evangelical Christians is valid. The separation of matter and form by mere seconds, as the minister first pronounces the sacramental form and then immediately applies the matter by full immersion, is not enough of a separation to vitiate the sacrament. There is in that case a moral unity of the rite, a single act in two phases in immediate succession. The integrity of the sacrament is preserved, as matter and form are joined in the singular sacramental action. Additionally, the evangelical candidate already submerged in water has a copious amount of water, the matter, applied to the most of the body during the actual invocation of the sacramental form. That in itself would suffice for validity. Just say no to scrupulosity! 'In Baptism, Confirmation, Extreme Unction, and Order, theoretically speaking, a moral union suffices for validity, which exists when the matter is applied immediately before the form is pronounced, or immediately after... yet there can be no doubt about the power of the sacrament if the form is begun before the application of the matter is completed, or vice versa.' Saint Thomas Aquinas, quoted in Tanquerey, Synopsis of Dogmatic Theology.

One also highly recommends this article on the subject as well. 

Trinity V Sunday Mass, July 12 2020 - Saint Barnabas Dunwoody