All Saint's

The Anglican Heritage
"Scripture, Tradition and Reason"
All Saints' Church is a parish of the Diocese of Los Angeles in the Episcopal Church, the member of the worldwide Anglican Communion in the United States. Our tradition derives from the Church of England and is therefore both Catholic and Evangelical.

The Anglican Church is, together with the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches, one of the three branches of Catholic Christianity. The principal worship of our Church is he Holy Eucharist, also known as the Mass and Holy Communion. We maintain and cherish the historical Episcopate and the Apostolic Succession, an unbroken chain to the apostles in the ordination of our bishops.

Anglicans accept the two Gospel Sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist. We also accept, as sacramental rites, the five "lesser" sacraments of ordination, confirmation, penance, matrimony and unction.

Anglican theological thought and discipline emphasize scripture, tradition and reason. Immutable dogma is therefore not a hallmark of Anglican thinking, allowing for healthy debate and disagreement on issues that fall outside of the basic Christian tenets articulated in the Creeds.

The Anglican movement, once entirely English and white, has in recent years become dynamically international and cross-cultural, and the majority of the Church is now non-white. American Anglicans (the Episcopalians) are proud of being an "Iinclusive Catholic Church", welcoming members regardless of language, culture, race, sexual orientation or socio-economic status.

We believe that Jesus is Lord and that each member must accept Jesus as Lord, be baptized in the Church and live out the faith of Jesus in the world. All Saints' strives to live that ministry in the Anglican tradition.

In the nineteenth century a movement arose in Oxford, England, with the aim of bringing back into church life the "Via Positiva", the old way of worshiping God through admiration and enjoyment of the beautiful things in the world, and therefore with beauty and elegance in church services too. Anglo-Catholic Services are closer to the traditional Catholic manner, with vestments, sung passages, incense and music. Meanwhile, reason takes its place as one of the tripod of Englican belief - you are not expected to turn your brain off while the Rector is talking.

Is of a normal Spanish mass on a typical Sunday. Yes, the church was that full. People were standing at the back. This is not your aunt's church with its four dusty septuagenarians slowly dying to the Vicar's drone!