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Graduating with Gratitude

May 24, 2023 By Tim Gavin Leave a Comment

Each year as I prepare my sermon for the baccalaureate Eucharist service, I discern which kernels of wisdom I may offer to prepare them for a world of division, plagues, war, political upheaval, and godlessness. I wonder what they will take with them along with their diplomas and Bibles as they graduate and leave chapel.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Episcopal Schools, graduate, gratitude

What’s In The Word? A Podcast to Help Children and Youth Find Themselves in Scripture

April 22, 2023 By Tina Clark Leave a Comment

Our churches can, and must, be spaces where children are seen, heard, known, and loved for exactly who they are.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Children in church, love, Podcasts, youth ministry

Gathering up the Seemingly Disparate Elements

April 10, 2023 By Jamie Osborne Leave a Comment

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (May 1, 1881 – April 10, 1955) lived a full and varied life.

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Filed Under: Saints, Uncategorized Tagged With: God, meaning of life, saints, water

Preaching the Word, Teaching Inclusion

March 23, 2023 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

Last week, as priests and pastors and children’s ministers and people of all stripes working in churches attempted to make sense of the miraculous healing at the heart of the lectionary, some extremely important questions came up.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bible, disability, healing, lectionary, Wiggles & Wonder

Finding grace in flowers and snow and everywhere in between

February 21, 2023 By Ann Benton Fraser Leave a Comment

Margaret of Cortona is remembered for her spirit of repentance and supplication.

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Filed Under: Lent, Saints, Uncategorized Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, grace, reconciliation, saints

No child of God is unclean

February 4, 2023 By Sara Irwin Leave a Comment

The interplay between Cornelius and Peter in Acts 10-11 contains some of my favorite moments in scripture.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, church, Cornelius, neighbor, St. Peter, tradition

Explaining What We Believe

January 28, 2023 By Scott Robinson Leave a Comment

The priest, whose classmates had called him “the dumb ox” because of his huge stature and quiet demeanor, was Thomas Aquinas.

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Filed Under: Saints, Uncategorized Tagged With: roman catholic, saints, theology

What she didn’t tell him

January 3, 2023 By Susan Caldwell Leave a Comment

I want to turn our attention to the short story in Luke’s Gospel, when Jesus goes missing.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bible, Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus

Preparing our household for Allhallowtide

October 21, 2022 By Bonnie Smith Whitehouse 2 Comments

When suffering and grief inevitably find them, I want my children to be able to access the rituals of Allhallowtide

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: All Hallow's Eve, All Saints' Day, all souls, Commemoration of All Faithful Departed, death, parenting

I Almost Missed the Wonderment and the Magnificent!

October 11, 2022 By Susan Caldwell Leave a Comment

Hurrying around the parish campus, trying to get ready for our patron feast, Saint Michael’s Day, I would have easily missed something wonderful!

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Godly Play, imagination, nature, patron saints, St. Michael, wonder

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