Church Activities

On behalf of our members in some 40 nations worldwide, we welcome you to the website of the best known international Templar Order in the world, and the only Templar Order recognized in Special Consultative Status by the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Our official name is Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani, Latin for “The Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem”, and often shortened to the initials OSMTH. Our Order today is founded on the principles of chivalrous service and Christian charity, first adopted by the original Templar Knights in the Holy Land in the year 1118 and carried out in those early days from their headquarters on the Temple Mount in the Holy City of Jerusalem, which were provided for them by the then King of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Baldwin the Second.

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Each member of the AWOC becomes a public relations herald of the parish. By her appearance, attitude, and conduct she represents her church to the community. She can thus further the work of the church substantially as an individual, as well as by her participation in the activities of the AWOC as a group.

The Anglican Women of the Church (AWOC) undertakes the following:

• Distribute the Liturgical Ordo Kalendar for use with the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and with the Anglican and American Missals.
• Continue the Lenten Offering for the benefit of the St. Joseph of Arimathea Anglican Theological College and its work throughout the province.
• Other outreach programs that are needed in the community.

Contact info: ACW.StCharles.apck@gmail.com

Anglican church music is written for choir with or without organ accompaniment. Adult singers in a cathedral choir are often referred to as lay clerks, while children may be referred to as choristers or trebles. In certain places of worship, such as Winchester College in England, the more archaic spelling quirister is used.

An Anglican choir typically uses “SATB” voices (soprano or treble, alto or counter-tenor, tenor, and bass), though in many works some or all of these voices are divided into two for part or all of the piece; in this case the two halves of the choir (one on each side of the aisle) are traditionally named decani and cantoris, which sing, respectively, Choir 1 and Choir 2 in two-choir music. There may also be soloists, usually only for part of the piece. There are also works for fewer voices, such as those written for solely men’s voices or boys’/women’s voices.

At traditional Anglican choral services, a choir is vested, i.e. clothed in special ceremonial vestments. These are normally a cassock, a long, full-length robe which may be purple, red or black in colour, over which is worn a surplice, a knee-length white cotton robe. Normally a surplice is only worn during a service of worship, so a choir often rehearses wearing cassocks only. Younger choristers who have newly joined a choir begin to wear a surplice after an initial probationary period. Cassocks originated in the medieval period as day dress for clergy, but later came into liturgical use. Additionally, junior choristers may wear a ruff, an archaic form of dress collar, although this tradition is becoming less common. In some establishments, including the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Eton collars are worn.