CANTERBURY FELLOWSHIP WELCOMES YOU!

WELCOME TO MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY and STARKVILLE!

“Canterbury” is a gathering of students, both undergrad and graduate, and others interested in fellowship, fun, study, worship and prayer. A recognized student organization of MSU, we are open to all. Canterbury Fellowship is the official Episcopal presence at State and is based out of Church of the Resurrection in Starkville. Read more about Canterbury elsewhere on this website.  For more information about the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion, read on …

THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH WELCOMES YOU!

The Episcopal Church is an open, welcoming and inviting community and branch of the Body of Christ. Men, women and children from all walks of life worship and find God or a deeper knowledge of God within the liturgical and spiritual life of the Episcopal (Anglican) Church. Worship, liturgy and community centered in the sacraments ordained by Christ form the fundamentals of life within the Episcopal Church, complemented by personal and corporate prayer, fellowship, study and formation. The Episcopal Church offers a place for seeking and searching, discerning and finding, embracing a theological approach that employs three foundations: scripture, tradition and reason. Our worship and liturgy (from the Greek word litourgia, meaning the work of the people) is shaped and strengthened through common prayer, and we have historically understood that our “praying shapes believing.”  The more we pray and the more we gather as community, the more we believe—the better we understand just who and whose we are.    

Why People Become (& Remain) Episcopalians …

• Worship that brings you into the action instead of leaving you on the sidelines
• A theology that demands using your intelligence rather than ignoring it
• A willingness not only to tolerate differences but also to celebrate them
• A strong sense of community in which our consensus is Christ, not to conformity of opinion
• A devotion to the Biblical Sacraments instituted by Jesus which evoke awe and mystery instead of factual explanation
• An understanding that ministry is rightfully the obligation and privilege of every baptized person
• An insistence upon morality (what is good and loving) and an avoidance of moral-ism (salvation by code and not by Christ)
• The heritage of an Apostolic Faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and in the Apostolic order given the Church by him
  From The Herald, the newsletter of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Mobile, AL as reprinted in A Letter to the Philippians, the newsletter of the Parish Church of St. Philip, Jackson, MS.

 A Worldwide Church—An Historic Church

Making the Connection 

The Episcopal Canterbury Fellowship at MSU is a cooperative ministry of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, Starkville and the Diocese of Mississippi and, as such, is a member institution of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA), a sister church within the worldwide Anglican Communion. There are nearly 70 million members of the Anglican household of 38 self-governing churches made up of over 500 dioceses, 30,000 parishes and 64,000 individual congregations in a total of 164 countries. When we gather for fellowship, study, and worship, we join with the voices of many nations in prayer to one God through common bonds of affection and identity.

Need or Want More Information?

Visit the Episcopal Church’s National Website by clicking here.

or contact, the Rev. Carol Mead, chaplain,
at MSUchaplain@gmail.com or 662.323.3483