From the Rector

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…

Blessings to you, my fellow pilgrims, as we head into the most Holy week of our Christian lives together.  This Sunday, Palm Sunday, we will begin a liturgical walk alongside Jesus as He shows us the depth of His grace and His Love for us.  Along The Way, we will encounter darkness, fear, and…

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…

Hello, fellow pilgrims.  As I write this, I am mindful that today is a very special father’s day.  In the Episcopal Church (and the Anglican Communion), today is the day that we honor and celebrate St. Joseph, the adoptive father of Jesus and devoted husband to Mary—guardian and protector of both.  St. Joseph was…

Hello, fellow pilgrims.  It is week 2 of our Lenten season and week 2 with our Lenten Devotional Wendell Berry and the Sabbath Poetry of Lent. The poem highlighted in this week’s devotional is “Again, I Resume the Long Lesson.”  This poem ties into this Sunday’s Gospel lesson from John 3.  It may not seem so…

I came across a beautiful poem recently that I believe speaks to the Holy Gospel in a such a profound way.  In very few words, it poetically (and quietly) encourages us to follow Christ’s call to walk humbly, act justly, pray unceasingly, and love, not out of any desire for recognition or attention, but…

Just as an icon is a sacred image filled with the Holy Spirit; a window into heaven that can portray a person (Theotokos), an event (The Washing of the Feet), or a doctrine (Rublev’s Trinity), we too are sacred images filled with the Holy Spirit.  We were created in God’s beautiful image.  And as…