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The Larger than Life Ministry of Phillips Brooks

January 23, 2023 By Kit Lonergan 2 Comments

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: church history, cloud of witnesses, The Episcopal Church

A lunch bag, a water bottle, and an empty tissue box

November 29, 2022 By Kit Lonergan 2 Comments

Not one person in my life would accuse me of being chronically organized.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Advent

My Mother, Psalm 23, and an Awesome Tree

November 7, 2022 By Kit Lonergan Leave a Comment

It’s possible that I’m turning into my mom.

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Filed Under: Prayer Tagged With: Psalms, seasons

Stalling on the Dock of the Bay

September 8, 2022 By Kit Lonergan Leave a Comment

I was sitting on the dock of our diocesan camp, the Barbara C Harris Center, when I began feeling uncomfortable.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: camp, Jesus Christ, summer

Hallowing the Change

February 23, 2022 By Kit Lonergan 3 Comments

Our son’s first tooth fell out this past week.

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Filed Under: Lent, Parenting Tagged With: change, coronavirus, Lent, parenting

Sabbath by Sprain

January 21, 2022 By Kit Lonergan Leave a Comment

I think it all happened because the eighteen-year-old boy behind the counter called me ma’am.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: humility, rest, Sabbath

Longing for God and Something Familiar in Advent

December 23, 2021 By Kit Lonergan Leave a Comment

As if on cue, every second Sunday of Advent my husband and I get into an argument about the correct type of lights to hang in order to welcome baby Jesus, the incarnate God, into the world. 

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, Christmas, incarnation

The Season of the Snipe

July 20, 2021 By Kit Lonergan 4 Comments

Is there such a thing as the liturgical season of the snipe? The side-eye? The passive aggressive glare, or the directly aggressive loading or unloading of the dishwasher?

No? Well, there should be. 

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: conflict, Lombard Mennonite Peace Center, reconciliation

The Spiritual Practice of Slathering

March 31, 2021 By Kit Lonergan 3 Comments

It’s late to be writing a post about Lent, but I’m of the modest opinion that the practices you take on in Lent aren’t just seasonal.

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Filed Under: Lent, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Lent, spiritual discipline, spiritual practice

The miter fit her just fine: the Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris

March 13, 2021 By Kit Lonergan 5 Comments

Bishop Barbara C. Harris died on March 13th, 2020, where I’m sure God welcomed her with the same words and emotion she shared with a friend upon her entrance into the convention center filled with 8,000 people at her consecration: “What a hell of a welcome!”

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Bishop, Black Lives Matter, saints

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