Some two thousand years ago, a Man known to history as Jesus of Nazareth called people to come and follow Him and become His disciples. His words are not a suggestion or a question. He did not say, Would you like to follow Me? or Would be to your advantage to follow Me? He also did not say, Get yourself cleaned up, and then come to Me. His words were a command.
Today, right now, these words of Jesus still stand as a command and a call and a challenge and a welcome to all people and to each human being, to each human soul.
Some people who heard Jesus did follow Him; this is the story of the New Testament. What did the first disciples, in the Bible, learn as they followed Jesus? They learned that He had compassion for the sick, that He had mercy for sinners, and that He had power over all creation as its King. Each of Jesus's disciples would come to understand that they, too, were deeply in need of help and moral mercy from Jesus, that He was not only merciful and compassionate, but He was Holy and Mighty.
The disciples learned and experienced that Jesus had come to bring them God's forgiveness, His righteousness, and His gift of eternal, personal salvation, through the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus, and in the coming of His Holy Spirit.
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Worship With Us
Holy Communion, Sunday 10:15 AM
Weekday Services as Announced
Affiliations
Diocese of the Western States in the Anglican Province of Christ the King
Clergy
The Rev. Canon Edward Jones, Vicar | 602.561.9916
Where We’re Located
St. Mary at the Cross 1201 E. 15th Street, Suite 103, Plano, Texas 75074
St. Mary at the Cross is located in the Chaddick Center on the northwest corner of E. 15th Street and Municipal Drive, in Suite 103 at the back of the complex near the Municipal Drive entrance.
St. Mary at the Cross
Our Mission
At St. Mary at the Cross Anglican Mission, we, as disciples of Jesus, believe and experience that we today are receiving help and mercy from Him. Sunday by Sunday, we gather together to know and fellowship with Almighty God our heavenly Father, through His dear Son our crucified and risen Saviour, Master, Friend, King, and Lord.
Jesus called people to follow Him, and He also told them
"Come and See!"
With Jesus, and by His grace, we at St. Mary at the Cross likewise say and proclaim today, As the Psalm teaches us
"O Taste and See That the Lord Is Good."
And as Jesus Himself said to His disciples after His mighty Resurrection
"Come and Dine."
Jesus's loving welcome to us is beautifully expressed in an old Gospel song.
