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Beholding the Christ Child in the Proto-Martyr: a homily for Saint Stephen's Day

Manger, Glory, Incarnation: a homily at the Dawn Eucharist of Christmas Day

Christmas Eve with the Hackney Phalanx: "the dawnings of that day"

The Mystery of the Maiden's belly

Bramhall: "They condemn not private confession, and absolution itself"

Mattins and Evensong during Advent: Canticles

Advent with the Hackney Phalanx: "the season of retirement, of self-examination, of prayer, of abstinence"

'The Right Way to Safety after Shipwreck': Bramhall on private confession

Mattins and Evensong during Advent: Versicles and responses

Waiting for the consolation of Israel: Cosin's prayer for Advent Embertide

Advent with the Hackney Phalanx: "The present season of the year"

How the Old High tradition continued

Ministering the Advent hope at the hour of death

Advent with the Hackney Phalanx: ransom captive Israel

At Prayer Book Mattins on the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Mattins and Evensong during Advent: penitence

Why Advent needs the strange figure of John: a homily for the Second Sunday of Advent

"It is a sin not to adore when we receive this Sacrament": why adoration is integral to Anglican eucharistic practice

"The scope, tenor and spirit of its rule of life": a final extract from Warner and the pastoral wisdom of Anglicanism

Advent with the Hackney Phalanx: "a moderate pursuit, a prudent husbandry, and cautious use of present things"