The Rev. Richard Tarsitano is the vicar of Trinity Anglican Church: a mission of the Reformed Episcopal Church. He is a former Navy Chief and holds a B.A. in English from the University of North Florida and an M.Div from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He can be found podcasting on Black and Red All Over and praying at the 1662 Daily Office Podcast.
The Anglican Tradition, St. Mary the Virgin, and the prudential divide between pious opinion and requisite belief A recent article at the North American Anglican regarding St. Mary the Virgin’s place in the Anglican tradition blessed the reader with a palpable love of the Book of Common Prayer and a rarely seen expertise in the…
In The Pastoral Use of the Prayer Book by the Rt. Rev. William Paret (1826-1911), the once bishop of Maryland tells his young clergy and postulants they should be asking themselves this question: “How am I going to act, what am I going to do in the service and pastoral work which are before me?”[1]…
On January 21, 2025, the Episcopal Church’s Bishop of Washington delivered a homily at the Inaugural Prayer Service. The president, vice president, and many members of the United States government were in attendance. There is a long history of Anglican bishops and priests preaching sermons to kings who held their very lives in their hands,…
Anyone familiar with the classic 1959 science-fiction novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz, will remember a central theme was Christianity’s ability to survive and rebuild even when Mankind uses the creative gifts handed down to us from the Almighty to maim and murder ourselves. In the book, atomic bombs turn on their hubristic creators in a…
This article serves as the second diary entry for the missionaries first mentioned in a recent article here at the North American Anglican. In this continuing series, we hope to highlight some of the day-to-day challenges which face a church plant in the year of Our Lord 2021 but also to glory in the small…
This article serves as something of a diary entry for the missionaries first mentioned in a recent article here at the North American Anglican. We hope to highlight some of the day to day challenges that face a church plant in the year of Our Lord 2021 but also to glory in the small miracles…
“Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest (St. Matthew 9:37-38).” I. Post-Christian or Pre-Christian? The United States of America is changing. The country is rapidly moving from a post-war…
It would be quite foolish for anyone to make bold predictions about what the Anglican Way in North America will look like in 10 years. This brief article features only a small amount of such hubris, and is offered more as a way for traditionally minded Anglicans of all affiliations to have some idea of…
For my entire life, I have watched the institutions of Christendom’s power be turned against her in cruel and inhuman ways. We have all watched the horror which inevitably arises when the mechanisms of morality (churches, governments, academia, media, etc.) are violently disconnected from their Christian foundations only to be weaponized against us and our…