Blessings to you on the first Sunday in Lent and the next to last Sunday in February. This week was a little different than last week, while it was cold this week it wasn’t raining and the winter weather impacts of last week are starting to abate. But things were a little non-plussed in the […]
May you be blessed at the beginning of your Lenten journey as we celebrate Ash Wednesday with the imposition of ashes, the litany of penitence, and the Eucharist. This Lenten season feels a little anticlimactic – we began our Coronatide journey during Lent last year and continue now, almost a full year later. Yet, we […]
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 […]
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 […]