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Peter and Paul: Growing Christians and Breaking Bread

June 29, 2022 By Maria Nolletti Ross 2 Comments

Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Apostles, were martyred in Rome in 64 CE. The Episcopal Church celebrates their sacrifice with a feast day on June 29

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Filed Under: Saints, Uncategorized Tagged With: Feast Days, forgiveness, recipes, St. Paul, St. Peter

You are forgiven.

May 12, 2020 By Carrie Willard 3 Comments

As a Generation X woman, working mother, clergy spouse, and people pleaser, I’ve often felt the “damned if we do, damned if we don’t” pull inside myself.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: compassion, coronavirus, forgiveness, Jesus, parenting

Detail Watchers

April 14, 2020 By Michelle Heed Leave a Comment

I reach out to fellow detail-watchers. 

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bible, cats, forgiveness

Perfect Love

March 21, 2020 By Kia Huffman 2 Comments

The voices in my head were getting louder. The ones that all mothers know. My daughter whispered tentatively through my closed bedroom door, “Mama. I’m hungry.” Again? I thought, “Just a minute.”  

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: forgiveness, love, parenting, patience, young children

And right the day must win.

February 16, 2020 By Drew Bunting 1 Comment

I used to live on Quintard Road. It’s named for Charles T. Quintard, one of the patron saints of Sewanee, Tennessee.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Bishop and Missionary, forgiveness, race, reconciliation, seminary, Sewanee, Star Wars, Tennessee

Sufficient, Daily Grace

December 8, 2019 By Laura Shaver 2 Comments

“But the Lord said to me, ’My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”  2 Corinthians 12:9.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: anger, forgiveness, grace, parenting

Pardon Our Dust

March 6, 2019 By Fr. Patrick Funston Leave a Comment

What is parenting if not equipping our children with the ability to function in the world?

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, forgiveness, parenting, repentance, sin

Road to Contrition

February 4, 2019 By Anne Warner 2 Comments

Due to procrastination and a lack of communication I was anxious and alone on an otherwise serene night. The anxiety became anger and then in my anger, I sinned.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: anger, forgiveness, God, marriage, parenting, sin

I failed Lent by 7:20am on Ash Wednesday. Here’s how you can too.

March 24, 2018 By Kit Lonergan 5 Comments

Failing was my entrance into a holy Lent.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: forgiveness, grace, Lent, parenting, young children

I tried to wield Lent over my family’s heads. It doesn’t work.

February 27, 2018 By Carrie Willard 1 Comment

My attempts to modify others’ behavior during the six weeks before Easter haven’t really been any more effective than my mother’s were.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: children, Children in church, discipleship, discipline, forgiveness, Lent, parenting

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