SERVICES
Sunday Worship Services
8:00 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite One
10:30 AM Choral Holy Eucharist, Rite One

Childrens Nursery available for
8:00 AM & 10:30 AM Sunday Services.

Wednesday Worship Services
12:10 PM Communion Service of Healing

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MAP

We are located at 9380 Davies Plantation Road, just north of the Stonebridge Golf Course and I-40.

Exit I-40 at Canada Road.  Turn north (away from the Belz Outlet Mall).  Take an immediate left on Davies Plantation Road (just past the McDonald's) and go 0.8 miles.  St. Philip will be on your right just before the stop sign. 

Our Mission:
To worship God in the Anglican Tradition, seek God's truth, grow in Christ, and proclaim God's Word to the world.

A Lenten Message

The Lenten season is upon us. We have celebrated the gift of the Christ-child and we have basked in the Epiphany Light that gives hope to the whole world. Now, the Church provides for us a liturgical season of our life to prepare ourselves for the glorious celebration and Feast of Easter that is the theological core of the Gospel and Christianity. It is this season, the season of Lent, that we come down from the mountaintop of celebrations and self-preoccupations to the valley, wilderness or desert of soul searching and penitence. Since before the fourth century, Christians have journeyed into a season of Lent to prepare themselves for the Great Paschal mystery of Easter. These 40 days of Lent have traditionally been a time of self-evaluation, spiritual disciplines, repentance and spiritual formation or renewal. The 40 days of Lent represent the 40 days that Jesus went into the wilderness where he fasted, prayed, and resisted temptation.

The Lenten season invites us to go into the wilderness of our lives, to join with humanity, the limitations of our past as we look to the promises of the future. During Lent, we are to get in touch with the spiritual hunger in us and throughout the world. Found in the reflections of the Temptations of Christ, we are to discern the temptations of our own lives and within our common life together. Scripture calls us to be mindful and watchful for the temptations that come from our most basic needs and desires. The “bread” that was offered to Jesus by Satan is symbolic of the temptations of our most basic needs and desires. We are called to identify in ourselves those temptations of power, privilege, prestige or control over others. We are reminded to realize the temptations of serving ourselves, of seeking control over all things, of giving homage to ourselves over God, and of not accepting the limitations and mortality of our being. All of these sins can be summarized as the sins of entitlement, the sin that was the ultimate downfall of Adam and Eve who felt entitled to the Forbidden Fruit of God.

In Lent, we are called to rediscover who we are as God’s people. We are called to face our limitations, our fears, and failure, not in shame, but with humility, courage and dignity. Penitence is a rightful part of this Lenten season but so is a quiet confidence, joy, and hope. Confession and repentance are privileges to enjoy as they are gifts from the Good News of God’s grace, forgiveness, and love. As we journey into this Lenten season, may we go forth remembering God’s own mark of ownership upon our foreheads, the sign of the cross made by the water of Baptism and the sign of the cross made in ashes. Satan and the world may tempt us to believe that they can be erased but by the power and love of God, we are marked as His for forever. Have a faithful Lenten Season!

                Fr Terry

 “The best is yet to come.”