All Saints Anglican Church of Fountain Valley

12/24/2025

12/20/2025

“The Lord is at hand.” Of course, He is not “at hand” so that we can use Him. And He is not at our side as someone we can occasionally use for help when we can no longer do it ourselves. The fact that the Lord is at hand actually means that our entire life is in His hands. From Him comes everything we are and everything we need to live.

Fr. Enn Auksmann reflects on “The Lord is at hand,” uncovering its biblical imagery, spiritual comfort, and message of peace, prayer, and joyful trust in God’s loving care.

12/20/2025

When God’s only-begotten Son became man, became like us, it was not to learn more about us, but so that we might learn more about Him.

Fr. Enn Auksmann reflects on John the Baptist, the limits of human understanding, and Christ as the One who has come to redeem us. God knows us fully and has given us in His Son far more than was lost in the Fall. In a world of comfort and compromise, the Church is called not to be reeds shaken by t

12/20/2025

Today may be the shortest day and longest night of the year, but we know that the darkness is past and the true light, the light of eternal and true life, is already shining.

Celebrated on the darkest days of the year, this Advent sermon remembers Saint Lucy, the Bringer of Light, and proclaims Christ as the Light of the world who overcomes sin, death, and darkness, calling believers to faithful witness and joyful hope.

12/13/2025

In the prophecies of His last days, however, Jesus didn’t talk just about and to the Jewish people, He spoke to us all. The coming of the Son of God into this world, His incarnation, His suffering and death, and His resurrection did not concern just one nation – it was a global, all-encompassing event that placed before everyone the inevitable requirement to make their decision, either for or against Jesus.

A sermon on Jesus’ prophecy, the fall of Jerusalem, human suffering, and the New Covenant, calling us to hope, love, and redemption in Christ.

12/13/2025

Today, the eve of the second Sunday of Advent, coincides with the feast of a saint who lived seventeen hundred years ago, Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra. Nicholas was born into a Christian family, but was orphaned at a young age. However, he did not despair or lose faith. On the contrary, he lived day by day grateful to God for all His blessings and shared them with those in need. He was faithful in prayer, and so it happened that one day, when Nicholas went to church to pray, the bishops who had gathered there and had received a vision from God, elected him as the new bishop of the city of Myra.

A Second Sunday of Advent reflection on Christ’s return, the witness of Saint Nicholas, and the true gift of Christmas: Jesus our Saviour.

12/13/2025

What are the mysteries of God of which Saint Paul calls himself the steward? First of all, it is the message about Jesus Christ, and about Him as the Crucified. Christ’s death on the cross of Calvary and His resurrection from the dead are, on the one hand, a truth revealed to us all, but on the other hand, it is a mystery – the mystery of God’s love, grace, mercy, and His often incomprehensible wisdom.

Discover the mysteries of God entrusted to the Church: Christ crucified and risen, forgiveness of sins, the sacraments, and the hope of eternal life.

12/07/2025

All Scripture proclaims Christ. This is the fundamental principle upon which the apostles and Christ himself interpreted the Scriptures. This principle is the basis of the Church’s teaching about God and our faith in Him, about sin and redemption, about the present age and eternity.

This is exactly what Saint Paul says in today's Epistle: “Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” Our hope is in Christ Jesus, who is the root of Jesse foretold by the prophet Isaiah and has brought salvation to both Jews and Gentiles.

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11/30/2025

In our Northern Hemisphere, Advent and Christmas are the seasons of the shortest days and the longest nights. The closer we get to Christmas, the less light and the more darkness there is. That’s why we love to put up Christmas lights and burn candles during Advent and Christmas.

«Let your lights burn,» says Our Lord. A candle shining in the darkness gives us hope, but it also encourages us to reflection. In the mirror of a small Christmas light, we see our inner life and begin to understand who and what we are. Artificial facades collapse, learned and acquired prejudices, the masks of social politeness and all the coverings intended to hide our true core are torn away. The soul finds itself and begins to ring in pure, unadulterated beauty and joy.

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11/30/2025

Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility, says the Collect for the First Sunday in Advent. He came because of love, and love is what He expects from us. Saint Paul writes: “Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”

Love cannot be measured, because if it could be measured, it wouldn’t be love. This is not easy: loving our neighbor as ourselves requires more of us than we are usually capable of. Even in small things, it is not always easy for us to consider our neighbor as our equal, let alone to step aside and put him before ourselves.

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11/28/2025

Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday that reminds us that we owe everything we have and everything we are to God. Wouldn’t it be great if every day of our lives would become a Thanksgiving Day? Let us pray: Lord, we thank Thee for all Thy blessings! They are abundant, so open our eyes to see them and our hearts to receive them with gratitude. Allow us to share Thy wonderful gifts with our neighbors and help our lives become a hymn of praise and gratitude to Thee.

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11/28/2025

The passage from the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, which we heard as today’s first scripture reading, is preceded by an extremely serious warning: «Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.»

These words apply to those entrusted with the care of God’s people: both political and religious leadership. God calls them pastors, that is, shepherds, whose job it is to feed, guide, and protect their sheep from dangers and enemies, if necessary, at the cost of their own lives.

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