ABOUT OUR PARISH

Welcome to All Saints' Church and thank you for visiting our website.  All Saints' is a warm and growing traditional Anglican parish serving in the heart of Philadelphia's Main Line.   Our mission is to share  the Gospel of  Jesus Christ and to serve His people.  We welcome you to worship with us.

We use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and the 1940 Hymnal for all services and our preaching and vision is Gospel based and Christ - centered.

 

ABOUT OUR CLERGY

The Reverend Edward Rix (interim rector): I grew up on a farm on Prince Edward Island, Canada. I'm the youngest of eleven children and have been a Christian since the day of my Baptism in 1971. My relationship with Christ was nurtured in our family Parish where the Canadian Book of Common Prayer and the King James Bible were used almost exclusively. I discerned a vocation to ordained ministry when I was six years old (and my parents never let me forget it!). I attended the University of King's College in Nova Scotia, an undergraduate college with strong Christian community and was there nurtured by some of the finest minds in Anglican Christianty in the fundaments of the Western Philosophical tradition. I also became aware while there, of the great controversies embroiling our church. Seminary followed at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto and Pastoral training at the Institue of Pastoral Care in Nova Scotia. After Seminary I persued graduate studies in Classics at Dalhousie University and worked as a Dean of Residence at King's College. As a seminarian I worked in parishes in inner-city Boston and Toronto, in rural New Brunswick, in a native North American parish in northern Quebec and in British Guyana. I also ran a Church Camp and spent some time working in Children's Theatre and as a clown and magician. Throughout, a deep-seated call to serve the Lord in ordained ministry dominated my life

In 1996 I was called by the Bishop of Lusaka, Zambia, to serve as chaplain of a remote mission school in that diocese and, accepting the call as God's will, was made Deacon and emmigrated to Central Africa. While in Zambia I also worked in parish ministry in a combinatioin of rural, shanty-town and urban parishes. With my bishop's blessing, I accepted a call from the Rector of All Saints' in 1998 to be Youth Director of the parish, but have maintained my canonical residency in Lusaka Diocese. Since 2001 I have been the Interim Rector.

I married Sierra Katz in January 2001 and we recently rejoiced at the birth of our third child. Being a parent has given me new appreciation for my Heavenly Father's patience with me and has impressed upon me the great need to form our households as the building blocks of the Church. As the great Anglican Divine Jeremy Taylor says "[Marriage] is the seminary of the church, and daily brings forth sons and daughters unto God…Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities, and churches, and heaven itself!"

I believe strongly in the Trinune God who redeems a fallen mankind that is powerless to save itself from sin. I am committed to preaching and teaching the whole counsel of God in communion with the saints of the Church who have gone before us and administering the sacraments as sure means of grace. I believe the role of a priest is "to please God and to save men" (in the words of Richard Hooker, another great Anglican teacher).

In my spare time I like to spend time with my family, cook and garden (nothing beats eating food you grow yourself!). I also enjoy hiking and scuba diving, collecting rare books and pretending to be a scout for antiquarian book dealers.

 

The Reverend Samual Murangi (Assistant Priest)

 

AJ DeBonis

Seasoned and cultured by my parents and older sister between the base of Knob Mountain and the banks of Fishing Creek in a little town called Orangevill, PA, he spent his childhood consuming superhuman quantities of oragneade at the Bloomsburg Fair, playing guitar in what some might call 'rock and roll bands', and learning to cope with sectoral heterochromia.

After attending the Recording Workshop in Ohio, he graduated from Eastern University with a BA in Philosophy. Shortly thereafter, we happily welcomed AJ as sexton/verger at All Saints Church. Most recently, AJ wed his college sweetheart, Patti.

 

Cheryl D'Amico

Cheryl H. D'Amico married to Charles D'Amico and mother to Dominique (25) and Charlotte (19), after a stint as a stay-at-home mom, Cheryl joined the All Saints' Team in 2007.