Our annual celebration of the Advent Season will be 27 November, the First Sunday of Advent, at 10 am. Lessons of Scripture will alternate with choral and congregation anthems, including works by Willcocks, Ord, and Victoria. Come and celebrate the real reason for the season! Update: A heartfelt thanks to all readers, the choir, the […]

Please keep the church and congregation of St. John the Divine (Hereford, AZ) in your prayers. Bishop Rasch has been in contact with Fr. Cyphers and as of Saturday, the fire did not reach the church but came about a mile from it. A new fire south of the church also began to approach but […]

This Saturday, 21 May, beginning at 9:30 am, the Diocese will celebrate the official Enthronement of the Rt. Reverend Anthony Frank Rasch as the Fourth Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Pacific and Southwest. The service will take place at St. Mary the Virgin in Chatsworth. The Most Reverend Thomas Kleppinger, Metropolitan and Archbishop, […]

The Diocese of the Pacific and Southwest will hold its 25th annual Diocesan Synod this week, hosted by Christ Our Saviour in Alpine. Clericus will convene Wednesday, 18 May, with the full Synod (including clergy and laity) convening at 1 pm on Thursday, 19 May. Due to the Synod, there will be no mid-week Mass […]

All weddings provide an occasion for hope and for reflection. Royal weddings, amid the pomp and pageantry, especially so because of the visibility. Discussion is already heating up as to whether the bride’s dress was sufficient to the occasion, if the maid of honour should have worn white, and the propriety of omitting the phrase […]