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2026 Bishop Ogles Independence Day Letter

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  The Anglican Orthodox Church SM founder: the most rev. james parker dees, a.b., b.d., d.d.    • founded November 16, 1963 2228 Wilkesboro Hwy • P. O. Box 128 • Statesville, North Carolina 28687- 0128 Telephone 704.873.8365 Email: aocworldwide@gmail.com Web: www.aocinternational.org The Most Rev. Jerry L. Ogles — Presiding Bishop                                                                                            Bishop’s Independence Day Letter July 4 th , 2026 - the 250 th Anniversary of America’s Independence “ Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath   chosen for his own inheritance .” Psalms 33:12             For t...

260628 AOC Sunday Report

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Anglican Orthodox Church sm Worldwide Communion Fourth Sunday after Trinity June 28, 2026 Sunday Report Sunday Fourth Sunday after Trinty The propers are sp ecial prayers and readings from the Bible. There is a Collect for the Day; that is a single thought prayer, most written either before the re-founding of the Church of England in the 1540’s or written by Bishop Thomas Cranmer, the first Archbishop of Canterbury after the re-founding.   The Collect for the Day is to be read on Sunday and during Morning and Evening Prayer until the next Sunday. The Epistle is normally a reading from one of the various Epistles, or letters, in the New Testament. The Gospel is a reading from one of the Holy Gospels, Matthew, M ark, Luke and John. The Collect is said by the minister as a prayer, the Epistle can be read by either a designated reader (as we do in our church) or by one of the ministers and...