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  • Lent – A Lectionary 2015

    Lent – A Lectionary 2015

    PALM SUNDAY  Almighty and everlasting God, who in your tender love towards the human racesent your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our flesh and to suffer death upon the cross: grant that we may follow the example of his patience and humility, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; through…

  • Lent … Taking time for ourselves is important. Taking time for others is important.

    Lent … Taking time for ourselves is important. Taking time for others is important.

    Lent … Taking time for ourselves is important.  Taking time for others is important. Lent is such an intentional and liminal time.  Time to be quiet yet listening deeper and sharing; away from the hectic pace we often keep yet in the community of/for those whom we engage in our lives; in prayer – private…

  • Gratitude – Lent 2015

    Gratitude – Lent 2015

    Lent 2015   Dear Sisters,   “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”          Meister Eckhart   February 18, 2015 will be Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, forty-six days before Easter (forty week days plus six Sundays). Lent originated as a mirroring of…

  • Epiphany Lectionary 2016

    Epiphany Lectionary 2016

    FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY LECTIONARY JEREMIAH 1:4-10 The story of the making and call of one of God’s early prophets. Question: Have you recognized God’s call in your life or anyone else’s. Did you trust Him? 1 CORINTHIANS 13: 1-13 Paul teaches us the need for living a life guided by God’s type of…

  • The only thing certain was that things would change …

    The only thing certain was that things would change …

    The Joy of Easter   Dear sisters in Christ Jesus.  Blessed and Holy Easter be with you now and always. We are in the midst of Holy Week and Palm Sunday has just concluded so we are in that seemingly liminal time of just waiting.  Not so?  Not so! We are in the thick of…

  • Pentecost – A Lectionary

    Pentecost – A Lectionary

      Reign of Christ – Proper 29 – November 23, 2014   EZEKIEL 34: 11-16; 20-27 A judgment on the leaders who have caused the destruction of Jerusalem. A time of uncaring greed and crudity endured by God’s people. Question: Are there groups of people today being treated in a similar manner? What can you…

  • It is “After All” LIFE! – Easter as the Gift

      God has a way of opening hearts and minds, often without our realizing it is happening.  At this moment, I am in New York City and have just finished celebrating a Eucharist for the students at The General Theological Seminary—a blessing for me to do and equally blessed by my hearing a fine sermon…

  • The Great 50 Days of Easter – A Lectionary 2016

    FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER ACTS 9: 36-43 Peter’s words of healing are a lesson for us on how we are to live out our lives as followers of Jesus. Question: Have you accepted the equipping for ministry that Jesus gives you? What is your source of power and how do you receive it?   REVELATION…

  • Palm Sunday Lectionary 2014

    PALM SUNDAY LECTIONARY   ISAIAH 50: 4-9   A poem written about the prophet’s lonely struggle to survive and keep his integrity in a hostile world. Question: Is your trust in God as strong as Isaiah’s?   PHILIPPIANS 2: 5-11 A story of Jesus, God’s Son, who has all power and glory and gave it…

  • The End of a Season and We are in Another Lent

    I think of the beginning of Lent not so much as welcoming a time of introspection, study, and prayer—hopefully leading to personal growth and service to and with others—but more a saying “Goodbye” to a time of celebration within the Epiphany Season.  I like Epiphany.  It seems to appeal to my sensitivity of enjoying being…