The Anglican Church of Virginia

The Anglican
Church
of Virginia, est.
2001
582 Simmons Way
Front Royal, Va
22630
540.635.5521
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barqmail.com

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Resolves ."
We are Christians. We are followers of
Jesus Christ. Our faith is an ancient one
dating back to the times of Jesus and His
Apostles, predating Rome. Our history is
traced to the British Isles beginning
according to the ancient Arimathea visited
his tin mines at Glastonbury, England
bringing the Holy Grail. The first written
mention of Christians in Britain is by the
about 200 AD. He writes of "parts of
Britain, inaccessible to the Roman, which
had yet been conquered by Christ." Origin
writes forty years later that in Britain are
"Christians to be found." Evident is
abundant confirming this in
archaeological discoveries. Our faith was
first brought to Roanoke Island on the
Outer Banks of North Carolina (USA) in
1587. This colony would become the
"Lost Colony." In 1607 Anglicans would
settle the first permanent Colony at
Jamestown.
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DIOCESE
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In a stormy sea of
change.

We are a rock during these
unsettled times. We
represent a new Anglican
Communion called the
Anglican Church International
Communion. We are not a
part of the Episcopal Church,
nor the Church of England.
We have made significant
progress and invite those who
of not only preserving, but
expanding our faith handed
down to us by Cranmer, Riley,
Latimer and Laud: all who
gave their lives for our
Anglican Faith.

Our Mission is simple:
reach souls for Jesus.

We are a Church serving
Anglicans of Virginia and around
the world to worship in the
tradition of men like George
Washington and other founders
of our Nation. We continue the
Faith first brought to our shores
and established by Captain John
Smith and the Rev. Robert Hunt
who came to Jamestown Island
in 1607. We use only the
traditional 1928 Book of
Common Prayer taken from the
original 1549,1552 and 1559,
Thomas Cranmer's Books of
Common Prayer. We are
growing and want to assist you
in forming a parish. The new
Anglican Seminary of Virginia is
educating men for the
priesthood. And seeks men called
to His ministry.

Join Us!

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The Black Regiment. What was this
during the Revolutionary War?Read Today's
Editorial for the Answer. Does our Nation
cry out again for a new Black Regiment?
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ANGLICAN SEMINARY OF VIRGINIA OPENED IN 2004 (ASV Website!)
The Council on Accreditation of the ACIC accredited the Anglican Seminary of Virginia
at its most recent meeting of the College of Bishops.

Top left: Historic Church at Jamestown. Center Top: Bishops of ACIC enter Jamestown Church. Top right: Pipers. Bottom left: Anglicans worship in
Jamestown Church. Center bottom: Archbishop Johnson blesses first Virginia Communion Nun. Bottom right: St. George's Flag at Evensong.

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I will visit Fort Valley, about five minutes from our home to
give thanks this week end. George Washington as lad of
sixteen surveyed this area for Lord Fairfax and was very
familiar with a mountain here shaped like a horseshoe.
He remembered this area when fighting in NY and sent
supplies to the Valley of Virginia in the event he lost in NJ
and NY and had to retreat south. He planned to "hole up"
in the horseshoe. There would be only one way in for the
British and he could defend the mountain. However, the
tide turned in NY and he did not have to retreat to Fort
Valley. This is little known since history does not go in to
this kind of detail anymore. The area where Fort Valley is
located is a part of the Massanutten Mountain Range.
Sondra and I see it from our place and pass it every day
going to town. Washington's talent for planning for this
goes unnoticed but we here know.

I will say prayers tomorrow for Abel Johnston and his wife
Ann for what they gave to win our freedom. These
persons happen to be my great(4) grandparents. Abel
Johnston fought in the Revolution under the command of
General Nathanael Greene. He joined the North Carolina
Militia in 1777 at age 19 and did not muster out until
August of 1783. He was in the first firing line at Guilford
Court House at the rail fence facing Cornwallis' Army, the
best of the best British Soldiers they say. This battle
would be the turning point of the war with the British
running out of supplies and men. Cornwallis found it
necessary to retreat south to Charleston and then to York
Town, Virginia where he surrendered surrounded by
Washington's Army and the French who arrived in the
"nick of time."

Our family's home base is Johnston and Harnett
Counties, North Carolina. In the coming days I plan to
visit where I grew up, and will go by Abel's and Ann's
graves to say my prayers of thanksgiving. While there I
will take time to step into the creek where he and his
horse bathed upon returning home from the war for the
final time. He was so dirty and his uniform so worn and
filthy he couldn't "set foot in the house" until he had
donned fresh clothes. I will gaze at the fields he and Ann
farmed after the war and remember what they did, and
ask, "What have I given?" I will feel empty in
comparison. I will lift my eyes to God and give thanks
once more for grandparents, Abel and Ann, and offer a
special salute to Private Abel Johnston, Soldier, farmer,
family man, Patriot and nation builder.

+Larry W. (Johnston) Johnson

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Article the third… Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech..

Christian Betrayal
By The Rt. Rev. Larry W. Johnson, Archbishop, Anglican Church of Virginia, Virginia Communion, International Provinces of the
Anglican Church International Communion.

Such is the audacity of man that he would counterfeit God and be so bold as to challenge His work.( 7 )

We who are alive today must do whatever it takes to see that our children have the opportunity to live in a country that embraces individual
freedom, propagates wholesome living, ensures free enterprise, fosters high moral and Spiritual standards, does not hinder freedom of worship,
espouses law and order, protects life, liberty and the “pursuit of happiness” that only a Judeo-Christian Nation can secure and where government,
as Lincoln proclaimed, is “…of the people, by the people, for the people, (and) shall not perish from the earth (6).”

IT IS TIME FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION THAT AFFIRMS THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Proposing this is not without precedent. A successful society, one that endures, must have
common laws, a common language, and common moral values accompanied by common hopes and aspirations.

Scenes from Church activities

Patrick Henry,
Anglican, of
Virginia.

“It cannot be emphasized too
strongly or too often that this great
nation was founded not by
religionists, but by Christians; not
on religions, but on the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. For this very reason
peoples of other faiths have been
afforded asylum, prosperity, and
freedom of worship here.” Henry

Private Abel Johnston
North Carolina Militia
1777-1783

Remembering those who bought
our Freedoms and how they won
them.

History is forgotten I am afraid. Fully a quarter of
our population does not know which country we
separated from. The sacrifices of our forefathers
are unknown to many. Following are bits of
history we will not read in books but offer
insight into the history of the American
Revolutionary War from General Washington to
a Private Abel Johnston,
my Great (4) Grandfather.
- Larry W. Johnson

General George Washington's Secret
Contingency Plans Were Not Needed.

"Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our
country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in
the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribe for our motto:
'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim
Christ first, our country next."

Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), Seventeenth president and Vice-President to Abe
Lincoln. He assumed the presidential office when Lincoln was shot.

It is not often that we in the Anglican Church speak of
Mortal Sin. The very thought of it causes some to
shudder, so even ministers of the Gospel tend to shy
away from the subject. In speaking of the seven
"deadly sins" we are sure to step on somebody's toes.

Pride, envy, covetousness, anger, lust, gluttony and
sloth are considered mortal sins. Just as all have
fallen short of the glory of God and all have in some
way managed to break each of Ten Commandments
(we'll get back to that later), it's safe to say that all of
us have committed a mortal sin.

God-fearing Christians recognize this fact. That's why we seek God's
forgiveness. That's why the 1928 Book of Common Prayer is so valuable to our
souls if we observe Morning Prayer each day and Holy Communion each week,
we are constantly acknowledging that we have, through our sins, separated
ourselves from God and are seeking His forgiveness.

"But Christ died on the cross for all our sins," some argue. They cite Scripture
that indicates at first glance there is nothing more we need to do than believe in
Jesus. "We can't save ourselves by good works and strivings," people say. And
they thereby give themselves permission to continue to practice the
"comfortable" sins.

Science and Psychology have "evolved" to such a point that they are saying we
humans have no control over what we do. And it's easy to fall into the trap of
believing that there are things we cannot control or are just human nature.

Assuming personal responsibility is out of the question in today's world. Nearly
everything is now explained away by heredity. And science and psychology may
be coming close to a part of the truth we are in large part products of our
genetic make up good or bad, healthy or unhealthy, tall or short, green-eyed or
brown.

And we are all born into sin. But the Bible tells us we must not submit to sin.
The Bible gives us a way to live, and not one place in there does it say God will
make it easy.

Mortal Sin and Forgiveness

In fact, Scripture acknowledges just the opposite. We will be persecuted for
trying to rise above our human nature. Laughed at for our beliefs. The harder we
try to follow the commandments of God, the more we are ostracized. So when
we Christians are prideful, envious, angry or lazy, we find an accepting society
making it easy to excuse ourselves.

But we know and have been taught differently. Sin is sin. It is of our own doing.
The great and humbling blessing is that when we Christians sin, it is God's
grace that saves our souls and restores us to Him if we ask. And in that asking,
we must repent we must change.

Change is hard, yes. Especially change that requires us to give up something
comfortable. Or something that we feel defines us. Or something that has been
considered a family trait.

Look at the above-mentioned mortal sins. Pride, envy, covetousness, anger,
lust, gluttony and sloth. Now think of the Ten Commandments:

Thou shalt have none other Gods but me. Practice of any of those seven sins in
some way takes the place of God. Do no murder. Can't we, in our anger or in
bragging excessively about an accomplishment, kill the spirit of another? Can't
gluttony, whether it regards sex, food, drink, or any other obsession, lead us
away from God? Can't envy cause us to steal if only in our hearts? Scripture tells
us what is in our minds is as bad as what we have actually done.

Science and Psychology say we are who we are and can't help what we are born
to, and they are right in one way by ourselves we cannot change.

But we aren't by ourselves! Since the beginning, God has never allowed man to
walk alone. And then because we were such mortal sinners, He sent His own
Son to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. The truth is we can
change. Because by His stripes we are healed.

The following steps to repentance, forgiveness and healing are offered as
reminders of what we have been taught as Christians. Let us ever be vigilant to
look at our lives. Fearlessly we must look inside our hearts and try to see what
God sees.

Steps to healing:
1.        Recognize your sin.
2.        Confess your sin (before the cross, or before a trusted priest)
3.        Say the words describing your sin not simply ("Father I have sinned," but
tell Him what that sin is).
4.        Ask forgiveness through the shed Blood of Christ.
5.        Tell Him how you plan to change and ask His help in changing.
6.        Accept His forgiveness.
7.        Come to the His Altar and take of His Body and Blood.

Yes there is mortal sin. And there is sin from which there is no return for some.
But for Christians, there is hope and the promise of redemption, purchased by
Jesus Christ our Lord, on a cross.

The Rt. Rev. Larry W. Johnson, Bishop