Sacraments

High Altar
High Altar

Full members of a Trinitarian church are welcome to receive the Sacrament of the Lord’s Body and Blood at St Mary’s.

The Anglican tradition generally recognizes two Sacraments of the Gospel: Baptism and the Eucharist. Eastern and Western churches have, however, discerned a special sacramental quality in other rites that have long been experienced as sources of supernatural grace.

The Western church highlights seven such rites which continue to be formative in Anglo-Catholic identity and spirituality and are therefore central to the witness to the Christian life at St Mary’s, especially the daily celebration of the Eucharist or, as the first Book of Common Prayer of 1549 notes, ‘commonly called the Mass’.