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What Do You Say?

Posted on November 26, 2025 by johnaroop

Apostles Anglican ChurchFr. John A. Roop Eve of Thanksgiving, 26 November 2025(Deut 8, Ps 65:1-8, James 1:17-27, Matt 6:25-33) What Do You Say? IN THE NAME of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The … Continue reading →

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All Saints’ Day 2025

Posted on November 1, 2025 by johnaroop

Apostles Anglican ChurchFr. John A. Roop All Saints’ Day, 1 November 2025The Holy, Hot Mess Horde(Ecclesiasticus 44:1-14, Psalm 149, Ephesians 1:11-23, Luke 6:20-36) CollectAlmighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical Body … Continue reading →

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This Is the Message: A Homily on 1 John 3:11-24

Posted on October 15, 2025 by johnaroop

Apostles Anglican ChurchFr. John A. Roop This Is the Message: A Homily on 1 John 3:11-24(2 Kings 6, Ps 75, 1 John 3:11-4:6) CollectO God, our refuge and strength, true source of all godliness: Graciously hear the devout prayers of … Continue reading →

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Prayer and Violence

Posted on October 2, 2025 by johnaroop

We meet together as an assembly and congregation, that, offering up prayer to God as with united force, we may wrestle with Him in our supplications. This violence God delights in (Tertullian, The Apology, Chapter XXXIX). This excerpt comes from … Continue reading →

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The Problem for the Rich

Posted on October 1, 2025 by johnaroop

Apostles Anglican ChurchFr. John A. Roop The Problem for the Rich Is the Poor : A Homily On James 5(1 Kings 15:1-30, Psalm 5, James 5) CollectO merciful Lord, grant to your faithful people pardon and peace, that we may … Continue reading →

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Something Real

Posted on September 30, 2025 by johnaroop

There may, in other words, have been a different kind of vacuum into which the Jesus message made its way. It was not so much a matter of people giving up an old “religion” and then finding a new one. … Continue reading →

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Benedicite, Omnia Opera Domini

Posted on September 30, 2025 by johnaroop

And what of this creature, this mote of a bee?For what flower is it and it alone crafted?To what task of service and praise has it been called?Why is it at all? Certainly not of necessity, but of — what? … Continue reading →

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Angels and Mice

Posted on September 28, 2025 by johnaroop

SAVED BY A HURRICANE, the caption says. “Salvation belongs to the LORD,” the Psalm says (Ps 3:8a, BCP 2019, p. 272). There seems no reason that both cannot be true. About another matter, but equally germane here, N. T. Wright … Continue reading →

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Politics, Religion, and Money: Dives and Lazarus

Posted on September 28, 2025 by johnaroop

Apostles Anglican ChurchFr. John A. Roop Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, 28 September 2025(Amos 6:1-7, Ps 146, 1 Tim 6:11-19, Luke 16:19-31) Politics, Religion, and Money: Dives and Lazarus Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;Nor the hope of the … Continue reading →

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Six Lies

Posted on September 23, 2025 by johnaroop

It should go without saying — but it does not, so I must say it — that what I publish here is my own thought. I am an Anglican priest in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) and I … Continue reading →

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