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Gazing outward, gazing inward, and finding God

March 1, 2023 By Tim Gavin Leave a Comment

Sophomore year in high school became a pivotal time in my spiritual development.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Contemplation, Lent, teenagers, youth

Truth-Telling on Ash Wednesday

February 22, 2023 By Leyla King Leave a Comment

Recently, a parishioner described to me her experience of a funeral at another church. “They kept talking about the person’s ‘transition,’” she said. “It took me a while to figure out that they were using that word as a euphemism for death.”

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, children, death, honesty

Finally seeing the goodness of the Lord

February 2, 2023 By Scott Robinson Leave a Comment

Every first-born male belongs to God, according to Exodus 13, and any family that wished to keep its first-born son instead of offering him up for religious service had to redeem him with a sacrifice in the Temple on the fortieth day after his birth.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: movie, Presentation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Simeon

Beckoned by the Holy

January 6, 2023 By Bonnie Smith Whitehouse Leave a Comment

I love everything about this new season of Epiphany—chalking the doors, eating King Cake, wearing crowns, and reflecting on the light.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Bible, Epiphany, St. Mary Magdalene, The Gospel of John

What do those letters mean?

January 1, 2023 By Allison Sandlin Liles Leave a Comment

As you prepare for worship, whether it’s today or a future Sunday, I invite you to take a few moments to consider some of the symbols we use for Jesus in our church buildings

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: church, Feast Days, Holy Name of Jesus

The Urgency of Today’s Holy Innocents

December 28, 2022 By Scott Robinson 2 Comments

We read in the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew that when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Herod Antipas, the Tetrarch of Galilee (erroneously referred to in the gospels as “King Herod”), fearing for his throne, ordered the deaths all the male children in the Bethlehem area under the age of two.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: gun violence, Holy Innocents, racial justice, racism

Powering Down the Christmas Machine

December 25, 2022 By Meaghan Brower 4 Comments

I will not start packing up the decorations today. 

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, Christmas, decorating, Holiday season

Carrying Christmas With Us: Prayer Cards for All Twelve Days

December 23, 2022 By Rachel Daboney Benton Leave a Comment

Households may be in a rhythm of setting aside extra space for God during the season of Advent and so these cards are an easy way to extend that space during the season of Christmas. 

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Prayer Tagged With: Building Faith, Christmas, faith at home, liturgical year, prayer cards

This Advent, This Love

December 19, 2022 By Laura Shaver 1 Comment

In keeping with a resounding theme, Advent, this year, has truly served as a time to reflect on love

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, death, love, parenting, parents

Advent finally showed up

December 18, 2022 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

Advent came a little later than expected this year.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, Palestine, waiting

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