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Reaching for Light

April 4, 2022 By Meaghan Brower 3 Comments

It is still very, very cold in New England. 

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: Lent, spiritual practice, spring, winter

Transforming Our Back to School Fears

September 17, 2021 By Meaghan Brower 1 Comment

In the days leading up to the start of school I had several conversations with my son Sam and all of them started the same: “Mom, I’m scared to start first grade.”

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Filed Under: Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: back to school, camp, Episcopal Camps and Conference Centers, fear, friends, friendship, parenting

What John the Baptist and Fran McKendree Taught Me

June 24, 2021 By Meaghan Brower 3 Comments

Say yes like John. Show up like Fran. Be brave. Be bold. Be loved.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: baptism, Baptism of Jesus, camp, Episcopal Camps and Conference Centers, Music, St. John the Baptist, teenagers, youth

Saint Patrick and Marking One Year

March 17, 2021 By Meaghan Brower 3 Comments

I live in Newport, Rhode Island where there is a small but mighty Irish population that has been celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day with vigor for 65 years.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: coronavirus, Family, Feast Days, Music, Patrick

How an Epidemic Changed Saint Nicholas

December 6, 2020 By Meaghan Brower 4 Comments

If I were writing this last year I don’t even think I would have paid any attention to this part of Nicholas’ story. I’m not sure the word would have registered in my brain. But this year? Hearing of a young boy losing both his parents to an uncontrolled illness was hard to ignore.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Advent, Christmas, Feast Days, generosity, kindness, St. Nicholas, St. Nicholas Center

Maundy Thursday: The At Home Edition

April 9, 2020 By Meaghan Brower 4 Comments

As this article is being written, I am on the 20th day being home with my husband, two small children, and my mother.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: coronavirus, faith at home, foot washing, Maundy Thursday, young children

Andrew the Apostle: Patron Saint of Younger Siblings

November 30, 2019 By Meaghan Brower 2 Comments

I am the oldest of three children in my family. My two sisters are my best friends, though for many years before I came to see them that way they were also my worst enemies.

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Filed Under: Saints, Uncategorized Tagged With: Feast Days, patron saints, saints, siblings, St. Andrew

Our Easter Best

April 28, 2019 By Meaghan Brower 2 Comments

Welp, I turned into a priest-mom-Easter-morning-psycho.I mean, Christ is Risen, right? Might as well go crazy on your family.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: children, Children in church, communication, Easter, parenting, young children

Loving, Belonging & Connecting at Summer Camp

May 14, 2018 By Meaghan Brower 3 Comments

Editor’s Note:  I attended my diocesan camp as a young child, rediscovered God’s presence in my life at that camp as a nineteen-year-old and first felt […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: children, God, teenagers, teens, youth

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