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Hello, fellow pilgrims.  What perfect timing this day is.  The sun is shining so brightly that even the trees are celebrating.  All of the rain we’ve received recently sure makes me appreciate bright and sunshiny days like this.  Interestingly, today is the day of commemoration for Mechtild of Magdeburg, a thirteenth century mystic and…

Hello, fellow pilgrims.  We enjoyed a wonderful visit from our Bishop, +Carrie Schofield-Broadbent, and our Archdeacon, The Venerable Denise Schiavone, on Sunday, and confirmed/received four beloveds into The Episcopal Church.  Bishop Carrie blessed the site of our vegetable garden, and then I had the joy of bringing our Youth Group on a ropes course…

Hello, fellow pilgrims.  You may have noticed the recent construction of our newest ministry platform on our church grounds—a vegetable garden to support our local food bank, Mt. Airy Net. This idea has been floating around for at least the past two years and is at long last coming to fruition through the tireless…

Hello, fellow pilgrims.  In our Gospel reading this Sunday, Jesus continues to prepare the disciples for His departure, and He tells them that he will not leave them orphaned. He will give them an Advocate—The Holy Spirit.  While scripture offers us vivid descriptions and images of The Holy Spirit, it can be a complicated…

This Sunday, we will be reading part of Jesus’ attempt to comfort  his disciples during their last supper together.  It is a poignant moment where Jesus affirms his love for them and prepares them for life without His human presence.  The disciples cannot imagine life without Jesus and want him to stay or take…

Easter tidings, fellow pilgrims.  As I sit here today gathering my thoughts for this newsletter, for this weekend, and for this tender time in the world, I lament the heartbreak that death brings even in our assurance of salvation and everlasting life through Christ.  We have lost a few beloved people very recently, in…

Easter Blessings to you, fellow pilgrims. As we approach the beginning of our third week of the Easter season, walking Christ’s Way of Love through Hope, I pray you’ve had time to reflect upon the gift of Christ’s Grace in our lives.  During the Triduum, I asked you to consider how you might identify…

It is Holy Week, and we are about to enter the Triduum, the most sacred three days in our church year.  Three days that commemorate Christ’s crucifixion, death, and resurrection.  While it may appear that we have multiple services over the course of these three days, the church observes them as one service.  You…

Hello, fellow pilgrims. This week’s Gospel reading (John 11:1-45) always stirs up so many images for me that it can be challenging to discern a single direction in which to take my thoughts and translate them onto paper.  And looking through our Lenten devotional, it seems the publisher may have experienced the same dilemma. …

Hello, fellow pilgrims.  Here we are closing out our third week of Lent and entering into our fourth week.  This fourth Sunday of Lent is one of two Sundays known as “Refreshment Sundays”.  One occurs during Advent and is known as Gaudete Sunday, and the other occurs during Lent and is known as Laetare…