Greetings from dreary Chuckatuck on the Last Sunday after the Epiphany. This week was a lot less hectic for the Parish, for which we give thanks. It was nice to gather for worship, and nice to have new voices in worship (in the past few weeks that is). We are beginning the transition from Epiphany […]
The Cloister WalkKathleen NorrisFebruary 10-11, 2021 – The Paradox of the Psalms The Psalms are surprising when we think about (1) their place in scripture and worship, (2) the way they are raw expressions of emotions. The Psalms are not neat and clean statements – rather psalms express the full range of human emotions and […]
Sunday Worship – We will conduct a remote worship as part of our COVID response and to provide safe worship. For those desiring, please contact the Rector to pick up pre-consecrate elements for at-home Communion. We have also set up to live-stream worship on our YouTube channel at: https://youtu.be/25OzuijJJX0. Ash Wednesday – Ash Wednesday is […]
The Cloister WalkKathleen NorrisFebruary 9, 2021 Questions up front – mostly rhetorical but still worthy of contemplation. What is it that prevents us from embracing community and draws many of us to depend on personal wealth? + Note, I am guilty too.+ I feel the dominant thing that drives us to amassing personal wealth is […]
The Cloister WalkKathleen NorrisFebruary 8, 2021 Wondering aloud; how do we make our worship more inclusive and how we honor the outsider in our midst in worship? Norris offers this reflection about the St. John’s monastery in Minnesota, “they [the monks at St. John’s] always invite a person from outside the monastic community to do […]