AN ANGLICAN RULE OF LIFE:
Prayer, Work, and Devotion
+ The Holy Eucharist - Daily ideally,
every
Sunday and Holy Day,
assisting
and receiving
+ The Divine Offices - Matins (morning prayer) and
Vespers
(evening prayer) daily,
The
Angelus or Regina Coeli
three
times every day.
+ Sacramental Confession - Quarterly as a minimum,
monthly
as an ideal,
during
Holy Hour on Saturdays
or
by appointment.
+ Private Prayer and Devotion - By specific rule,
15
to 30 minutes every day,
one
hour on Saturdays.
+ Religious Study - By specific rule,
15
to 30 minutes every day,
one
hour on Saturdays,
Sunday
and Holy Day study.
+ Feasts and Fasts - Holy Days of Obligation observed,
meatless
Fridays until the ninth hour
(and
Wednesdays during Advent and Lent)
(Do
not make up for lost bits of food
by
nipping at your brothers and sisters.)
Feasts
are as much of an obligation
as
fasts. Keep them, also.
+ Stewardship - Treasure, tithe to the best of one’s
ability,
Time
and Talent given freely.
+ Evangelism - An effort to spread God’s message
by Word or Deed,
that
can be accounted for.
This
is truly the pilgrimage that
we
all must take in our life
in
Christ
+ Orthodox and Catholic Faith and
Practice -
As made evident in the Bible,
defined
in the traditions of the ecumenical
councils and the creeds,
and
practiced in the reason of the ancient
and undivided Christian Church as
expressed in the British Isles.
In Christ's love, Fr. Robert Pax
