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The Human Family: in death and life, divine and mortal

November 18, 2022 By Raymond Capo Leave a Comment

Upon occasion, we have the privilege and honor to sit with the dying, to accompany death as she visits and extinguishes the flame of life afore us.

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Filed Under: Prayer Tagged With: death, grief, resurrection

Have you any Christmas cheer?

December 17, 2021 By Raymond Capo 3 Comments

I recently had a literal “come to Jesus” moment while saying goodbye to a fellow parishioner leaving our Sunday service.

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

Perfection of the Trinity

May 30, 2021 By Raymond Capo Leave a Comment

Each complete, in and of their own selves, individually, yet exist corporately together, as one construct, or being.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: The Gospel of John, Trinity Sunday

Prayer: When, How, and Why

February 11, 2021 By Raymond Capo Leave a Comment

Do you talk to God? 

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My cancer showed me the power of kindness.

December 22, 2016 By Raymond Capo 2 Comments

When I volunteered to donate a kidney, I wasn’t expecting a cancer diagnosis. I also wasn’t expecting such an outpouring of compassion.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: baptism, cancer, compassion, healing, health, kindness, T.S. Eliot

E Pluribus Unum – A United, Broken Family

October 25, 2016 By Raymond Capo Leave a Comment

Maybe faith is just this: to accept that we are loved, even in the brokenness.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: children, divorce, Holy Communion, parenting

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