Ash Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Today we begin the forty days of Lent. There are many things we hear and do today. Ashes smudged on our foreheads that remind us of our mortality and our dependence on God. The scriptures bring the...
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In the church world today is the 2nd day of Lent. In the Hallmark world it is Valentine’s Day. Seems like spiritual and mental whiplash to shift so rapidly from ashes and mortality to hearts and love....
View ArticleFriday, February 15, 2013
But can he want the grape, who hath the wine? I have their fruit and more. Blessed be God, who prosper’d Noahs vine, And made it bring forth grapes good store. But much more him I must adore, Who of...
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I am thinking about getting a tattoo for Lent.The inspiration happened in Bible study a few weeks ago as we read Micah. We pondered what prophets try to communicate on God’s behalf. One person said...
View ArticleMonday, February 18, 2013
“You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.” Leviticus 19:2 What does it mean to be holy? Holy does not mean good. Holy is not perfect. Holy is not “meek and mild”. Holy is not a person far...
View ArticleTuesday, February 19, 2013
Remember that you are dust…yet even at the grave… Yes, I know that Ash Wednesday was almost a week ago, but I’m still thinking of ashes today as I bury the cremains of my cousin Margaret Wilbert...
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This past Sunday was Lent I. At Christ Church it is our tradition to chant The Great Litany as our entry rite in solemn procession on this day. The chanting is antiphonal between a member of the choir...
View ArticleThursday, February 21, 2013
The Swiss theologian Karl Barth said, “Gratitude is the counterpart to the grace of God.” This grace comes freely. Go, take it, says God. Then turn around, come back to me and say, “thank you.” Then,...
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For those who join in fellowship with others to worship God and to do Christ’s work in the world, the community of faith is both a refuge and a challenge. By doing liturgy we remember our Lord and...
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“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect.” Matthew 5:48 Be perfect. Some of us need no second bidding: we take ourselves in hand, begin to chisel away at our own self-image. Lent is...
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A Lenten Meditation – There’s a wideness in God’s Mercy & Psalm 46 By The Rev. Debra Q. Bennett “There’s a wideness in God’s mercy Be still and know Like the wideness of the sea Be still and know...
View ArticleTuesday, February 26, 2013
Lenten Reflection Luke 9:1-6 A few years ago in another time and in another place at a staff retreat, we were led through a table scavenger hunt. What this entailed was a list of things that we might...
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Philippians 2:5-8 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself,...
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Not bypassing, but only by going through … On Ash Wednesday, we embarked on a Lenten Journey with Jesus. This journey will mark a time of penitence, personal reflection and call to renewal of life....
View ArticleFriday March 1, 2013
David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales, c. 544 One of the little joys of being in the Anglican communion is the observation of what used be called Lesser Feasts and Fasts—now replaced by the revised volume,...
View ArticleSaturday March 2, 2013
A dearly departed friend of mine, a priest in Nebraska, is always remembered during Lent for getting his tongue twisted during the opening Collect on Ash Wednesday–several years in a row–and praying...
View ArticleMonday March 4, 2013
Today commemorates the work of The Rev. Paul Cuffee, a Shinnecock Native American, who died in 1812. The Rev. Cuffee ministered on Long Island, with most of his journeys made on foot. Cuffee is...
View ArticleTuesday, March 5, 2013
“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’” John 7:37-38 I thirst. I...
View ArticleWednesday March 6, 2013
Psalm 91:9-14, Sirach 44:1-15, Luke 8:40-56 Today, the Episcopal Church remembers two great medical pioneers whose names live on in two great medical centers. In the aftermath of a devastating tornado...
View ArticleThursday March 7, 2013
Text: Exodus 3: Theme : I got your back There is always an attraction to the book of Moses for me personally for two reasons It reminds so much of the struggles of the African American slaves and how...
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