St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - Weekly Talks

Blessed Epiphanytide! This talk reflects on Ash Wednesday's call to repentance, generosity, prayer, and fasting (Matthew 6:1-8; 16-21). Fr. Michael calls St. Aidan's to begin preparations for a more devout Lenten practice of prayer and fasting for deepening mercy-mindedness. Our hearts are changed firstly by asking the Father to ... "create in us a clean heart" to transform us more and more unto Christlikeness. We ask the Father to make us mercy-givers, to be mercy-minded, as is our Father. Thus, we ask, seek and knock to the one who is in us both to will and to do according to his good pleasure. Matthew 6:1-8; 16-21 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you giv