We believe that the holy sacraments instituted by Christ Himself – that is to say, Baptism and the Holy Communion – are outward and visible signs of the inward and spiritual grace given to us by God Himself, and that they effect what they signify:
• In the case of Baptism, the washing away of sins, spiritual regeneration (rebirth), and grafting into the Body of Christ, so that we become children of God and heirs of eternal life. We hold that infants as well as those of “riper years” may be baptized.
• In the case of the Holy Communion, we believe that those who rightly, worthily, and with faith partake of that most holy sacrament are truly, though spiritually, fed and nourished with the Body and Blood of Christ, as He Himself has promised; and that t
he means by which His Body and Blood are received is through faith.
We faithfully maintain the apostolic succession in the historic episcopate, and the threefold orders of (male) ministry: bishops, priests (presbyters), and deacons.
We believe in traditional morality in issues affecting the sanctity of life and human sexuality.
We practice dignified, reverent, traditional worship “in the beauty of holiness,” using the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible, the 1928 Book of Common Prayer – descended in direct line from the first Anglican Prayer Book of 1549 – and we enrich our worship with classic hymns from the 1940 Hymnal, striving to “do all things decently and in order,” to the glory of God, and to the edification of His people.