Worship is the response of the created, limited mind and heart to the unlimited Creator, who is sensed but never fully known.

In the Biblical vision, God is the unknown and unknowable and, at the same time, an intimate personal friend.  Both are true, yet how both can be true at the same time remains a mystery.  At the heart of the Christian experience of God there is a mystery, and the only possible response to such a mystery is worship.  Worship is a response to beauty, to love, to human need, to our deepest fears, to our greatest joys.  It enlists all that is best and most creative in the human spirit.  Worship fulfills our human nature by drawing us closer to God.

The Church is the primary Sacrament of Christ.  Christ is present throughout the world, but He is present in a particularly available and cooperative form in the Church.

What has shaped our Liturgy the last four hundred years or so was the effort of Elizabeth I to give meaning to a reformed Catholicism, which was neither Roman nor Protestant.

Anglicanism holds the Eucharist as the principle service of worship.

Anglicans hold preaching as an essential part of Liturgy.  We preach for insight that requires an ability to listen and think with the left hand.

Liturgy has no purpose in itself.  As is true for Scripture, if Liturgy is to live, it must illumine our life and give it meaning.

A church is a building designed to allow Christian people to gather around an altar for a common meal.

Anglicans believe you cannot take part in the worship service without using The Book of Common Prayer.  Nothing is more central to the life of The Episcopal Church than worship using this book.