Welcome to the Anglican Sisters in Christ!
-Established January 2022-
About the Anglican Sisters in Christ
Several who attended the ACA’s 2021 Diocese of the West’s synod in Montana had an idea about how to stay in touch, to listen, learn and support one another as Anglican women living in today's world.
In January 2022, the Anglican Sisters in Christ was established coming together online via Zoom – the 3rd Saturday of each month at 8:30 AM PT / 11:30 AM ET
This virtual gathering of Anglican women come from all over the U.S. who either attend a G3 Anglican parish or are interested in the Church.
Meeting Agenda (about 75 minutes)
- Greetings and Introductions
- Family Morning Prayer – page 587 in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer
- Announcements
- Meditation on Bible verses
- Share your prayer requests & thanksgiving
- Intercessory & Closing Prayer
A slide deck of prayers and meditation is emailed to you each month. For a sample and invitation Zoom link, please complete the contact form. We encourage you to turn your computer or cell phone camera on to enhance the personal connection among us ladies. We are informal and friendly, so come as you are, sip a cup of your favorite morning beverage, and relax as we talk and pray together.
Hosts: Marilyn Williams, Sabrina Bower, and Amy Hendrickson
Prayer Requests
Anglican Sisters in Christ 2025
January Meeting
February Meeting
February Meeting
This month was a meditation on how to
ENCOURAGE YOUR CLERGY
1. Pray, pray, pray2. Become part of the team
3. Submit to the leadership of your priest
Read more ways on slides 16-23.
February Meeting
February Meeting
February Meeting
This month was an educational class on ANGLICAN POLITY and the differences compared to congregational, presbyterian, connectual and papal polity. Presented by Bishop William Bower
There are no class slides available except on page 15-17, the TAC structure.
March Meeting
February Meeting
April Meeting
This month's meditation was on
Opening Up to God’s Grace
Why would we believe we have no sin?
-Someone may be unaware of what sin is
-Not a Christian
-Attends a Christian church but have never been taught about sin.
-Has never read the Bible
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- 1 John1:8
The meditation slides are available on pages 12-21.
April Meeting
April Meeting
April Meeting
Last month's meditation was on
Forgiveness - Receiving God's Grace
- Take a minute to consider how Judas responds and how Peter responds to their situations.
- Consider how the religious leaders responded to Judas. It makes one think of Jesus and the fig tree. How he comes to the fig tree that is full of leaves and looks as if it would have fruit but when he looks closely there is no fruit in it.
- What does that tell us how we should respond to people in crisis? What is there to offer them?
The meditation slides are available on pages 15-21.
May Meeting
April Meeting
May Meeting
Discerning God's Will
- Our Own Will vs. God's Will
- Choosing between the world and God
- We have help - The Paraclete
The meditation slides are available on pages 13-19.
June Meeting
April Meeting
May Meeting
June's meditation was on
Serviam!
- Serviam is Latin for "I will serve."
- St. Michael the Archangel's cry as a response to Lucifer's rebellion against God
- The world's way or God's way. It is our choice.
The meditation slides are available on pages 15-20.
To call in by phone (no video), dial 719 359 4580 and enter the following information when prompted:
Meeting ID: 847 8279 8984
Passcode: 201771
July Meeting
September Meeting
August Meeting
This month's meditation was on
Reality
- 1 Corinthians 15:1-8. In this passage, what is it that Paul is reminding us?
- Galatians 2:8-9. It is faith in Jesus that makes us right in the sight of God, not ourselves. Do we live reflecting this truth?
- Psalm 51:17. We must sacrifice our will to His. This does not mean just giving up the bad things we do but sometimes means letting go of the good things that we love. Letting go does not mean forgetting but accepting that God “is doing better things for [us] than we can desire or pray for”.
The meditation slides are available on pages 13-19..
August Meeting
September Meeting
August Meeting
This month's meditation was PART 1 of 2
Truth - Commitment - Authenticity
- 1 Samuel 12:20-22. In this passage, we learn some key things about
being in a relationship with God. - Before all else, Samuel acknowledges the people’s wrongdoing, but he also reassures them of God’s great mercy.
- Samuel emphasizes the importance of fully dedicating ourselves to serving the Lord and prioritizing devotion to God above all else, with sincerity and total commitment,
The meditation slides are available on pages 16-24.
September Meeting
September Meeting
September Meeting
This month's meditation was PART 2 of 2
Truth - Commitment - Authenticity
Samuel 12:23-24 - What does this passage say to us?
1.We must pray for each other. Samuel states that he would be sinning if he did not to pray for God’s people.
2.Through our service to God we will learn “the good and right way”.
3.We must serve him in truth.
4.We must remember the great things He has done for us.
The meditation slides are available on pages 14-21.
October Meeting
November Meeting
September Meeting
The Anglican Sisters met for lunch on Oct. 16th at the ACA-ACC Provincial Synod in Charleston, SC. For those who were unable to attend, we meditated on Mother Theresa's message at the 4th UN Women's Conference in 1995.
Dear Friends,
I am praying for God's blessing on all who are taking part in the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. I hope that this Conference will help everyone to know, love, and respect the special place of women in God's plan so that they may fulfill this plan in their lives.
I do not understand why some people are saying that women and men are exactly the same, and are denying the beautiful differences between men and women. All God's gifts are good, but they are not all the same. As I often say to people who tell me that they would like to serve the poor as I do, "What I can do, you cannot. What you can do, I cannot. But together we can do something beautiful for God." It is just this way with the differences between women and men.
God has created each one of us, every human being, for greater things-- to love and to be loved. But why did God make some of us men and others women? Because a woman's love is one image of the love of God, and a man's love is another image of God's love. Both are created to love, but each in a different way. Woman and man complete each other, and together show forth God's love more fully than either can do it alone. That special power of loving that belongs to a woman is seen most clearly when she becomes a mother. Motherhood is the gift of God to women.
How grateful we must be to God for this wonderful gift that brings such joy to the whole world, women and men alike! Yet we can destroy this gift of motherhood, especially by the evil of abortion, but also be thinking that other things like jobs or positions are more important than loving, than giving oneself to others. No job, no plans, no possessions, no idea of "freedom" can take the place of love. So anything that destroys God's gift of motherhood destroys His most precious gift to women-- the ability to love as a woman.
God told us, "Love your neighbor as yourself." So first I am to love myself rightly, and then to love my neighbor like that. But how can I love myself unless I accept myself as God has made me? Those who deny the beautiful differences between men and women are not accepting themselves as God has made them, and so cannot love the neighbor. They will only bring division, unhappiness, and destruction of peace to the world.
For example, as I have often said, abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today, and those who want to make women and men the same are all in favor of abortion. Instead of death and sorrow, let us bring peace and joy to the world To do this we must beg God for His gift of peace and learn to love and accept each other as brothers and sisters, children of God.
We know that the best place for children to learn how to love and to pray is in the family, by seeing the love and prayer of their mother and father. When families are broken or disunited, many children grow up not knowing how to love and pray. A country where many families have been destroyed like this will have many problems. I have often seen, especially in the rich countries, how children turn to drugs or other things to escape feeling unloved and rejected. But when families are strong and united, children can see God's special love in the love of their father and mother and can grow to make their country a loving and prayerful place.
The child is God's best gift to the family and needs both mother and father because each one shows God's love in a special way. The family that prays together stays together, and if they stay together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And works of love are always works of peace.
So let us keep the joy of loving in our hearts and share this joy with all we meet. My prayer for all of the delegates, and for every woman whom the Beijing Conference is trying to help, is that each one may be humble and pure like Mary so as to live in love and peace with one another and make our families and our world something beautiful for God. Let us pray. All for the glory of God and good of souls. God bless you. Mother Teresa, MC
[Preceding text courtesy of Catholic World News service (CWN).]
November Meeting
November Meeting
November Meeting
This month's meditation we reflected on a variety of essays regarding women's ordination lacking foundation.
At the 1976 General Convention of the Episcopal Church, they voted to end their participation in the Apostolic Succession by approving the ordination of women. In 1977 these ordinations began, with one of the first being a practicing lesbian. The Church universal held that the character of ordained ministry be male for 1,943 years until this occurred. The motivation for the shift is clear, a change in societal moral norms. Fundamentally speaking this was a change driven by society rather than by Christ.
The ordination of men does not in any way take away from the Apostolic ministry of women. To suggest that is the case is to ignore that it is our dogma that Mary was proclaimed by Ecumenical Council (Ephesus 431) to be the Theotokos (God bearer), Mother of God, Mother of the Church, Panagia (most holy one / most holy human) and the Queen of Heaven. The number of women saints and of saintly women indicates a clear vocation for women that doesn’t necessitate the envy of ordination.
Again and again, we are asked to defend our position on male ordination as if we made the change. We should cause the innovators to defend their position from a place of Scripture, Holy Tradition, and Holy Reason.
The meditation slides are available on pages 16-23.
December Meeting
November Meeting
November Meeting
Mark your calendar for the next Zoom meeting
Saturday, December 20th
8:30am Pacific
9:30am Mountain
10:30am Central
11:30am Eastern
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October's In-Person Gathering
The Anglican Sisters met for lunch on Oct. 16th at the ACA-ACC Provincial Synod in Charleston, SC. For those who were unable to attend, we meditated on Mother Theresa's message at the 4th UN Women's Conference in 1995.
Dear Friends,
I am praying for God's blessing on all who are taking part in the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. I hope that this Conference will help everyone to know, love, and respect the special place of women in God's plan so that they may fulfill this plan in their lives.
I do not understand why some people are saying that women and men are exactly the same, and are denying the beautiful differences between men and women. All God's gifts are good, but they are not all the same. As I often say to people who tell me that they would like to serve the poor as I do, "What I can do, you cannot. What you can do, I cannot. But together we can do something beautiful for God." It is just this way with the differences between women and men.
God has created each one of us, every human being, for greater things-- to love and to be loved. But why did God make some of us men and others women? Because a woman's love is one image of the love of God, and a man's love is another image of God's love. Both are created to love, but each in a different way. Woman and man complete each other, and together show forth God's love more fully than either can do it alone. That special power of loving that belongs to a woman is seen most clearly when she becomes a mother. Motherhood is the gift of God to women.
How grateful we must be to God for this wonderful gift that brings such joy to the whole world, women and men alike! Yet we can destroy this gift of motherhood, especially by the evil of abortion, but also be thinking that other things like jobs or positions are more important than loving, than giving oneself to others. No job, no plans, no possessions, no idea of "freedom" can take the place of love. So anything that destroys God's gift of motherhood destroys His most precious gift to women-- the ability to love as a woman.
God told us, "Love your neighbor as yourself." So first I am to love myself rightly, and then to love my neighbor like that. But how can I love myself unless I accept myself as God has made me? Those who deny the beautiful differences between men and women are not accepting themselves as God has made them, and so cannot love the neighbor. They will only bring division, unhappiness, and destruction of peace to the world.
For example, as I have often said, abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today, and those who want to make women and men the same are all in favor of abortion. Instead of death and sorrow, let us bring peace and joy to the world To do this we must beg God for His gift of peace and learn to love and accept each other as brothers and sisters, children of God.
We know that the best place for children to learn how to love and to pray is in the family, by seeing the love and prayer of their mother and father. When families are broken or disunited, many children grow up not knowing how to love and pray. A country where many families have been destroyed like this will have many problems. I have often seen, especially in the rich countries, how children turn to drugs or other things to escape feeling unloved and rejected. But when families are strong and united, children can see God's special love in the love of their father and mother and can grow to make their country a loving and prayerful place.
The child is God's best gift to the family and needs both mother and father because each one shows God's love in a special way. The family that prays together stays together, and if they stay together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And works of love are always works of peace.
So let us keep the joy of loving in our hearts and share this joy with all we meet. My prayer for all of the delegates, and for every woman whom the Beijing Conference is trying to help, is that each one may be humble and pure like Mary so as to live in love and peace with one another and make our families and our world something beautiful for God. Let us pray. All for the glory of God and good of souls. God bless you. Mother Teresa, MC
[Preceding text courtesy of Catholic World News service (CWN).]
For Grace to Reform and Grow Better (Book of Common Prayer, Page 590)
AND lest, through our own frailty, or the temptations which encompass us, we be drawn again into sin, vouchsafe us, we beseech thee, the direction and assistance of thy Holy Spirit. Reform whatever is amiss in the temper and disposition of our souls; that no unclean thoughts, unlawful designs, or inordinate desires, may rest there. Purge our hearts from envy, hatred, and malice; that we may never suffer the sun to go down upon our wrath; but may always go to our rest in peace, charity, and good-will, with a conscience void of offence towards thee, and towards men; that so may we be preserved pure and blameless, unto the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
Amen.
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Our prayer...
Father in heaven, when the Spirit came down upon Jesus at His Baptism in the Jordan, You revealed Him as Your own beloved Son. Keep us, Your children, born of water and the Spirit, faithful to our calling. May we who share in your life as your children through Baptism follow in Christ’s path of service to people. Let us become one in His sacrifice and hear His word with faith. May we live as Your children, following the example of Jesus. Amen.
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