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Who We Are and
What We Believe
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.
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