Next week, on April 28, 2016, The Most Reverend Foley Beach, Archbishop and Primate of The Anglican Church in North America, will Consecrate the Rev. Canon Dr. Ronald Jackson as Bishop, and Install him as the second Bishop of The Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes.
This will be a most solemn occasion, and also a most joyful occasion. The Church of God will be given another Bishop, and the ministry of the Apostles will be carried forward, made ever new through the work and gifts of the Holy Spirit and the participation in the fullness of the Priesthood of Jesus Christ.
As members of the Flock of Christ, and especially those who will belong to that portion of Christ’s Flock entrusted to then-Bishop Jackson, let us Pray for the Ministry of this man, and seek the Grace of Christ and the Power of the Holy Spirit on his behalf.
I offer you the following prayers for use in your intercession. These prayers are taken from the Sarum Missal, the Liturgy in use prior to the English Reformation, and would have been prayed for of a great number of Bishops in the English Church.
For the Bishop [i.]
Govern, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy servant Ronald, our bishop, and through the intercession of Mary, the blessed mother of God, and of all thy saints, multiply in him the gifts of thy grace; that he may be delivered from all evil, and that not being destitute of temporal aid he may rejoice in the ordinances of life eternal. Through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord; Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the holy Spirit, God.
For the Bishop [ii.]
Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord, to thy servant our bishop, that by preaching and doing such things as be rightful, he may by the example of good works edify the minds of those who are subject to him, and may receive of thee, most kind shepherd, an eternal recompence and reward. Through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord; Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the holy Spirit, God.
For Bishops
God, who hast caused thy servants to be reckoned as of episcopal dignity in the apostolic ministry, grant, we beseech thee, that they may rejoice in everlasting fellowship in heaven with those whose office they bore awhile on earth. Through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord; Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the holy Spirit, God.
Let us pray also for Bishop (elect) Jackson, that he may fulfill the charge given to a new Bishop by the Archbishop according to the Church of England Ordinal of 1550, the words of which are provided here as they were in that Ordinal:
[Then shal the Archebisshoppe putte into his hande the pastorall staffe, saying.]
BE to the flocke of Christ a shepeheard, not a wolfe: feede them, devoure them not; holde up the weake, heale the sicke, binde together the broken, bryng againe the outcastes, seke the lost. Be so mercifull, that you be not to remisse, so minister discipline, that ye forgeat not mercy; that when the chief shepheard shal come, ye may receyve the immarcessible croune of glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Please join in these prayers for Father Jackson, and present him before our Lord Jesus Christ, that his new ministry may be a blessing to Him and to the Flock of Christ.
Fr. Jon+
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