St. Luke is a parish of the Anglican Catholic Church, Diocese of the South.
Our Church is not a new Church, for we are of the same Church set forth by Jesus. Ours is the same Church as that of the Apostles, ever kept alive by the Holy Spirit. Our ministry is the Apostolic ministry of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, instituted by Christ and male in nature. We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God. We accept, teach, and hold no faith but the Catholic Faith as revealed by our Lord Jesus Christ. We do not compromise on matters of Faith and Order, discipline, or Biblical morality.
Anglican Faith is firmly and unchangeably grounded upon Holy Scripture.
Anglicans believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the
authentic record of God’s revelation of Himself, His saving activity, and moral
demands: a revelation valid for all people and for all time.
We hold that the ancient Creeds—the Apostles', Nicene and Athanasian—express
the Faith of the Church and are to be understood as they are written. The
Anglican Church is a creedal Church, not a confessional one. The Creeds, which
come from ancient times, summarize the "faith once delivered to the
saints" (Jude 3). By them we are taught that God is one God in three
Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; that God the Son became man, born of a
virgin as our Lord Jesus Christ; that by our Lord’s sinless life, death, and
resurrection, He gained access for us to God the Father and opened the way for
us to be children of God and to live with Him for all eternity.
On Christian morality, we believe that every Christian is obliged to form his
or her conscience by the Divine Moral Law and the Mind of Christ as revealed in
Holy Scriptures, and by the teachings and Tradition of the Church. Such
teaching is especially seen in the Sermon on the Mount (St. Matthew 5, 6, 7)
and in our Lord’s Summary of the Law, which states that we must first love God
with all our hearts, souls, and minds, and that we must love our neighbors as
ourselves.
We believe that the Sacraments are objective and effective signs of the continued presence and saving activity of Christ our Lord among His people and His covenanted means for conveying His grace.
