Reader CSL Requests: "Please write a post about home oratories. Assume your reader is a tourist from Mars."
Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 10:58PM
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Let's assume as well that I am from Mars.  Seriously.  I know next to nothing about the subject.

However, I assume a home oratory would consist of a small group of people  -- probably all Anglicans but not necessarily so -- who live in a locale where no orthodox Anglican church exists and who have accordingly decided to meet on a regular basis to have Christian fellowship and read one or both of the offices, perhaps followed by a Bible study and or Anglican studies.   If the oratory decides it wants to become a mission, the group would select an Anglican province with which to affiliate and notify the bishop to ask for oversight.

Queen Anna's Oratory

The Power of the Housegroup

Here are a couple of articles from the ACC:

ACC Mission Church How To

ACC Church Planting

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