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All Saints' Anglican Church is a parish in the Anglican Church in America. The Anglican Church in America is a traditional, historic church.

We are Biblical and Sacramental; that is, centered in prayer and worship. We affirm that the Holy Bible contains all things necessary for salvation. We believe that the sacraments represent outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace. We desire, as our Baptismal commitment says, to follow Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. We believe that our present bishops have their authority deleg

ated to them by the Laying on of Hands reaching back to the Apostles. We practice regular participation in Holy Communion. Jesus at the Last Supper instituted this Sacrament when He broke bread and drank wine with His disciples, exhorting them to do the same in remembrance of Him. We use the ancient offices found in The Book of Common Prayer. The beautiful language of our prayer book draws us closer to God. The continual use of the matchless prayers contained within The Book of Common Prayer offers us a window onto faith, holding us together as a community that meets in Jesus' name. We believe firmly that, in today's complex and often troubled world, God's love and protection are essential to a healthy physical, moral and spiritual life. It is our lasting commitment to protect the ancient treasures and teachings of the church, recognizing that these treasures provide the only true shelter for our passage through this temporal life. They are indeed gifts from God; it is our task to care for them, to preserve them and to pass them on to other faithful Christians. Every Christian stands on the shoulders of all who have gone before. As the Scripture says, “…built on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone”.

08/02/2025

Once, after a funeral, an old, bearded, gruff-voiced fisherman said to me: “Those funerals with a priest are really beautiful!” I then asked him what the beautiful part was that he liked so much. He replied: “Well, when you said, directly and without any twists: “The wages of sin is death!” Yeah, that’s right, I know it is!”

That made me smile – because at first glance it’s quite difficult to find anything beautiful in those words. But when you think about it a little – why not? Because the whole verse sounds like this: “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

07/26/2025

I once got into an argument that, I admit, did not come as a surprise to me at all – perhaps I even provoked it a little. Namely, I quoted a sermon by the church father Ambrose, knowing in advance that what he said there might cause misunderstanding or even protest. The quote, translated into English, reads as follows: «Man must strive, not to be equal with God, but to be like unto God.»

As I feared, an argument did arise: someone took issue with the statement that man should strive to be – and indeed could be – like unto God. I was told that this is a mockery of God, that wanting to be «like God» is a grave sin of selfishness, exactly the same thing that Satan tempted the first people with in the Garden of Eden – although Saint Ambrose expressly says the opposite: we do not have to strive – nor should we strive – to be equal to God, but to be like unto Him.

07/26/2025

In today’s Gospel, Jesus says: “Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

To find out what something is, it is worth asking what its opposite is. What is the opposite of righteousness? The opposite of righteousness is injustice, falsehood, and craftiness. So, living in righteousness means, first of all, that we must resolutely renounce all these evils.

07/19/2025

The boat that Jesus got into belonged to Simon. This was no coincidence, Jesus knew exactly whose boat it was and what He had in mind for its owner. After all, Jesus had met Simon before – when He had taught people in Capernaum and healed many sick people in Simon’s house, including Simon’s own mother-in-law.

It is interesting to ponder this: why hadn’t Jesus called Simon to be His follower while He was in his house, but waited until He met Simon again on the shore of the lake?

07/19/2025

Saint Peter writes in today’s Epistle: “The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and His ears are open unto their prayers.” In fact, it is a quote from Psalm 34: “The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry.”

Saint Peter knew how true these words were. But he also knew something else: he knew, he had personally experienced, that contrary to what we as humans would expect, the Lord looks with a gracious, merciful heart even upon sinners and comes to their aid as soon as they cry out to Him in repentance. Peter knew that the Lord hears our heartfelt prayers even when our words say otherwise.

07/12/2025

Jesus admonishes us in today’s Gospel: «Be merciful, as your Father also is merciful.» The word «merciful» could also be translated as «compassionate» or «tender-hearted.» Since we must be merciful, compassionate, and tender-hearted like our Father, we must ask in what way He, our God, is merciful, compassionate, and tender-hearted. The answer to this question is clear: God’s mercy, compassion, and tenderness have been revealed and manifested in that He has given His most beloved one, His only-begotten Son for us sinners, so that we might inherit eternal life in heavenly joy and glory.

07/12/2025

St. Paul says in his Letter to the Romans: “The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.” All creation expects something, eagerly, in excitement – something great, good and wonderful.

Is this what we feel when we look around us? Or is it rather that the expectation we perceive is borne of fear, some inexplicable premonition that something bad is about to happen? Wars, natural disasters, famine, disease… all this has accompanied the mankind throughout the ages, even when it has sometimes seemed that we have overcome it, have finally learned something, have developed to the point that we no longer depend on the whims of nature.

07/05/2025

God is looking for us no matter what. He seeks everyone and He is able to find everyone. So I am absolutely sure that God gives everyone the opportunity to repent and be saved. It is crucial not to reject God’s call – either by not following it at all, or by wanting to receive grace but not being willing to repent.

07/05/2025

Saint Augustine said something like this: “Everyone loves exaltation, but the only way to ascend there is by the steps of humility.” In today’s Epistle, Saint Peter also exhorts us to humility, because “God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”

Recently, a politician, speaking about freedom and independence, rightly said that freedom is not something that can be taken for granted and that independence must be fought for and preserved. Unfortunately, the same politician added something that cannot be considered right: that freedom does not come from anyone’s grace.

06/28/2025

Before I was ordained a priest – I was twenty-two years old – I had a serious conversation with an old priest who had been in the ministry for fifty years. He told me to think deeply about whether I was ready for the priesthood, and one of the questions he asked me was this: «Are you ready to become as low as a threshold… no, let me rephrase it: are you ready to become the threshold that people step on to enter the church?»

As I said, I was only twenty-two years old at the time, and in my youthful self-centeredness I answered that I was not. «Then you are not ready to be a priest,» said the old priest. I left him, thinking that I knew better than him what was right. I was ordained, and only later did I realize how right that old priest was.

06/28/2025

Peter means “rock”. Apostle Peter might have resembled a rock in terms of his appearance: we don’t know anything about it directly, but since he was a professional fisherman and leaves a rather strong impression in the accounts of the Gospels and the Book of Acts, we can assume that he was a big and strong man.

This may have been his biggest stumbling block in following Jesus: His own self was the “rock” on which he stumbled and fell many times. For example, when he thought he had to rebuke Jesus, who had predicted His suffering and death, and lead Him back to the “right path,” so that Jesus had to admonish him with terrifying severity: “Get behind me, Satan!”

06/21/2025

Hell doesn’t necessarily have to be burning hot – hell can also be freezing cold! And both the heat of hell and the cold of hell begin here – in that fiery selfishness and icy cold indifference that, unfortunately, so often characterize human nature, which, created in love, should actually burn with charity and offer cooling relief to all who suffer.

Fr. Enn Auksmann's sermon for the First Sunday after Trinity AD 2025

Fr. Enn Auksmann's Sermon for the First Sunday after Trinity All Saints Anglican Church Fountain Valleyõ California Anglican Church in America The rich man and the poor Lazarus A Czar in an Ice Palace

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