The Lives of the Saints – First Series – Episode 7 – St. Mark

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St. Mark the Apostle, St. Peter’s Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton, England copyright Can Stock Photo, Inc./tupungato

The Lives of the Saints, First Series, the 1928 B.C.P. Saints, continues with the uploading earlier this week of Episode 7, celebrating St. Mark the Apostle, whose Feast Day is April 25th.  The primary illustration is a 19th C. stained glass window at St. Peter’s Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton, England. Continue reading “The Lives of the Saints – First Series – Episode 7 – St. Mark”

The Lives of the Saints – First Series – Episode 5

paul-rublevEpisode Five in The Lives of the Saints – First Series, focused on the life and contributions to the Church Universal of St. Paul, was uploaded on January 25th, the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.  In addition to the familiar unfinished icon by the celebrated Russian icon painter Andre Rublev, I’ve included a 14th C. mosaic at Chora Church, Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) and an early 20th C. mosaic from Romania; and photographs of the exterior and interior of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, Rome, the place of St. Paul’s remains. Continue reading “The Lives of the Saints – First Series – Episode 5”

The Lives of the Saints – First 4 Episodes

January has been a productive month.   I’ve finished five episodes in the new series, The Lives of the Saints – First Series – the 1928 B.C.P. Saints.   The first four of these have been uploaded to our You Tube channel and the fifth, for the Conversion of St. Paul, will be uploaded on January 25th. Continue reading “The Lives of the Saints – First 4 Episodes”

New Videos in 2016 A.D.

In this Advent Season, when Christians prepare themselves for both the first and second/final coming of our Lord and Saviour, we should understand what the Christian Faith is about.   No matter what a certain unnamed politician says, Christianity is not a religion which includes “bedrock” teachings of all other religions.  It is the source of the Christian Truth found in the Gospel accounts of the divine origin, Incarnation, life, teachings, Crucifixion, Death on the Cross, Resurrection and promise of Life Everlasting in the divine Kingdom of the Father of the only-begotten Son of God.

I’ve been working on the preliminary plans for a new series of Seasonal Videos and a separate series of Teaching Videos which will be produced in A.D. 2016.   The first in the Seasonal Videos series is a two episode series on Epiphany.   Continue reading “New Videos in 2016 A.D.”

Sunday Next Before Advent

My Podcast Homily for Sunday Next Before Advent (Stir-up Sunday) has been uploaded to the Podcast Homilies page at the AIC web site.  This completes the archive of traditional homilies for all the regular Sundays in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer.  I include a review of the secular and Scriptural origins of the “Stir-up” idea as well as commentary on the “For the Epistle” reading (Jeremiah 23:5-8) and the Gospel reading (John 6:55-14), St. John’s unique account of the Feeding of the 5,000, the sixth of seven “signs” (Greek: semeion) in St. John’s Gospel.     Listen to the Sunday Next Podcast Continue reading “Sunday Next Before Advent”