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A Body Like Ours

March 25, 2023 By Scott Robinson Leave a Comment

Mary must have been so frightened.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Annunciation, Blessed Virgin Mary, bodies, Feast Days, Jesus Christ

Down in the gullies, you make springs to rise

May 17, 2022 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

Have you ever had one of those palm-to-forehead moments?

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Filed Under: Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Annunciation, confession, grace, Prayer

The Parable of the Good Parent

March 25, 2022 By Tina Clark Leave a Comment

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation, the moment when God sends an angel to a young, unknown, unimportant Jewish woman to announce that she will bear the Savior.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Annunciation, Blessed Virgin Mary, coronavirus, Jesus Christ, parable, parenting

God Can Survive Your Questions

March 25, 2021 By Erin Jean Warde 2 Comments

Lately I’ve been praying through my spiritual past, letting memory guide me through how I became a Christian in a non-Christian family, how I traversed fundamentalism to later become Episcopalian, and how the Episcopal Church dared to ordain me both deacon and priest

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Filed Under: Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Annunciation, Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast Days, fundamentalism

Divine Encounter

March 25, 2020 By Karen Montagno 1 Comment

What a powerful moment, this divine encounter.  

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Annunciation, coronavirus, courage, fear, Gabriel, Mary

The Surprising and Disrupting News of the Annunciation

March 25, 2019 By Carrie Willard 2 Comments

If you’re anything like me, you might have still found scraps of Christmas lying around when you were getting ready to help your children with a school Valentine’s Day celebration. It’s still cold in most parts of the country, and we might still feel a bit of a holiday hangover when we’re not quite sure what to do with ourselves in the days following the Feast of the Epiphany.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Annunciation, Feast Days, Gabriel, Mary, pregnancy

Gabriel’s call, Mary’s “yes” – and my response to my son’s doubt.

April 9, 2018 By Tina Clark 2 Comments

I should’ve been prepared for my own child to tell me he was experiencing doubt. But I wasn’t.

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Faith at Home: Planning Ahead to April

March 23, 2018 By Nurya Love Parish Leave a Comment

In just a little over a week, it will be Easter.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Annunciation, Blessed Virgin Mary, Easter, St. Mark

God and the angel Gabriel saw Mary’s dignity. Would we?

March 25, 2017 By Marcus Halley Leave a Comment

In Fra Angelico’s painting of the Annunciation, the angel Gabriel reverences Mary. What does that mean for us?

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Annunciation, baptismal covenant, dignity, Fra Angelico

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