What We Believe
We Embrace THe Historic Faith
We worship the Holy Trinity, one God in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. We adore the Father as the source of all things, the Son as our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost as the Lord and giver of life, who sanctifies and guides the Church.
We wholeheartedly believe and embrace the three creeds of Christendom, the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds, as true and sufficient statements of the revealed Christian faith. In these creeds we confess the mystery of the Trinity and the Incarnation, and we stand in continuity with the faith of the undivided Church.
We receive the Holy Scriptures as the Word of God written. We read and believe the entire Bible, the Old and New Testaments as containing all things necessary to salvation and as the sure rule and measure of Christian doctrine. We also read the Deuterocanonical books in the Church. We read the Bible in concert with the entire Church through time, which we call “Tradition.” Tradition safeguards us from falling into doctrinal error and heresy.
We Are Sacramental
We celebrate the seven holy sacraments of the historic Church and joyfully proclaim the timeless Gospel of our Savior to all the world. In the sacramental life we are united to Christ, strengthened by grace, and sent out in mission to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to our neighbors.
Prayer is the foundation of the Christian life and our living communion with God. We pray according to the threefold rule of the Book of Common Prayer: the Daily Offices, the Holy Eucharist, and personal prayer, which is practiced according to each person’s temperament and circumstances. The goal of this life of prayer is spiritual growth, as we mature in our knowledge of God and in our experience of his presence. In the light of God’s grace we also grow in self‑knowledge, which is expressed in increasing emotional and spiritual maturity.