Welcome to the Order's web site. There's a lot going on here!

For you who are visiting to discover more about who we are and what we do, try clicking the links above under "Who We Are." In short, we're a dispersed ecumenical religious order related to the United Methodist Church, though many of our sisters and brothers are Lutheran, Episcopalian, Baptist, and other traditions. Our focus is on sacramental and liturgical scholarship and practice. We're an international order, though right now the majority of the Order reside in the United States. We've been around for over sixty years, and we're growing.

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The Order of Saint Luke will gather in Retreat on October 25-28 at St. Paul of the Cross, 148 Monastery Ave, Pittsburgh PA. More information on the retreat will appear in this space as preparations continue. Please mark your calendars now!

The retreat leader will be Dr. Ruth Duck, who will guide us on the topic of "Reconciliation and Healing." Dr. Duck is a hymn writer and professor of worship at Garrett- Evangelical Theological Seminary in Chicago. An ordained pastor, Duck has written hundreds of hymn texts and published her own books of hymns. Duck has also authored Finding Words for Worship, which emphasizes the need for congregations to write their own prayers and hymns.

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Thanks to the collaborative efforts of several members of the Order, an online archive of The Font, our private in-house newletter, is now available to members on this web site. Sr. Sue Moore, editor of The Font, was the driving force behind ensuring issues were made available to the membership. Br. Gregory Hayes (among others) discovered problems with file formatting, and passed these issues along to Br. Rog Baker, who reformetted and uploaded the documents.

Complete issues from January 2005 forward are avilable, as are a few issues from 2004 & 2003. Any member possesing any issues not yet posted in electronic form are encouraged to pass them along to our webscribe, Br. Rog, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Br. Mark Stamm has provided the Order with online versions of three works to aid personal Bible study and devotion through the the use of daily offices. These works are:

Companions on a Similar Journey
A Comprehensive Lectionary for Daily Prayer and Praise
Reading the Bible Day by Day

Br. Mark is Associate Professor of Christian Worship at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, having served there since 2000.  He serves as faculty advisor for the Perkins Chapter, and served as abbot of the Order from 2000-2008.  At Perkins, he also gives oversight to the weekday chapel program.

Br. Mark is a 1980 graduate of Shippensburg University, a 1984 graduate of Wesley Theological Seminary and a 1995 graduate of the Boston University School of Theology, where he received his Doctor of Theology degree.  He is an elder in The United Methodist Church with membership in the North Texas Annual Conference.  He is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy, having serves as convener of its Christian Initiation Seminar; and, as an avid baseball fan, is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.  Br. Mark’s books include Extending the Table, A Guide for a Ministry of Home Communion Serving (Discipleship Resources, 2009).

Br. Jack Fahey, O.S.L., has again labored to produce our Ordo for this new calendar year. While a monthly ordo is provided in each member's copy of The Font, you may also find it convenient to download the latest text from the member's area of the web site (it's available in both PDF and Microsoft Word formats.) For further convenience, you can find the Ordo without logging in by selecting "Who We Are->Ordo Calendar."

As Br. Jack explains, "An ordo is a kind of liturgical calendar used by churches and religious orders to establish the feasts to be celebrated or commemorated in a particular year. Ordos are published annually in a calendar or book to list the proper liturgical color for the day as well as the psalter/lessons for the daily office and Holy Communion. An ordo also shows the user what feats are moved (transferred) because they conflict with another occasion. For example: if St. Andrew's Day (November 30) falls on a Sunday, it is transferrred to the following Monday."*

In a few weeks we hope to have the Ordo for the day show beside the daily/weekly lections.

*Editor's note: Br. Jack's explanation has been abbreviated for this article. The full explanation maybe found on the downloadable Ordo.