God's Mercy
I am thankful God's mercy to me isn't dependent on my faithfulness. It's Monday, and it IS a Monday today. It's human to get restless, and to find that in any moment in any given day, in your heart and mind, you're not where you want to be. I don't mean physically, although that may factor into it. What I mean is, we at times find that we are not behaving or thinking in line with who we are in Christ. Thank God that His mercy isn't dependent on me or you.
Blessings,
Fr. Francis
About Me
- Father Francis Robert
- I am an evangelical Anglican priest and monk, musician, and radio man--I have committed my life to the Lord Jesus Christ, our great God and Savior. My wife Shirley and I and our bird Abbey Ruth live in a house, Mercy House, our hermitage (monastic house), in Warr Acres (northwest Oklahoma City), and I have a daughter, Cheyenne. I am concerned about things ancient Church and monastic, and I am a priest in The Communion of the Holy Trinity, a jurisdiction of the Church in the evangelical Anglican tradition--the ancient apostolic Church, when she was one and undivided and called catholic, as she grew in the British Isles. Our parish, Chapel of St. Francis, meets in our home. The monastic order I'm part of, The Order of St. John the Beloved, is a Franciscan monastic order of The Communion of the Holy Trinity. We are "convergence" or "three streams" -- a blending of evangelical, sacramental/liturgical, and Spirit-filled--the life of the Holy Spirit, the elements of belief, practice, and worship of the ancient Church. These elements, rediscovered and allowed to be as they were in the early Church, makes for a balanced, relevant Church today.
Beautiful sunset..............we enjoy the Creation.
Shirley and I vow--Cheye, Becca, Shirley, myself, Dina, Susanna, Dcn.Laura, Fr.Joe, Dad, Andy, Todd
Stage Dive (minus bassist Krystal) just before playing at my wedding reception...
Mom, Todd, Dad, me, Jade, and my daughter Cheyenne
Alleluia! Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us! Therefore let us keep the feast! Alleluia!
Fr. Joe, myself, Bishop/Abbot Jim, at my ordination mass
Behold the Lamb of God! Behold Him Who takes away the sins of the world!
Happy are those who are called to His Supper! (I have consecrated, and present Christ in the Eucharist for the first time!)
At my permanent monastic vows--Otis making a statement, myself, Abbot/Bishop Jim, Oblate Andy
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