Greetings after an unsettled week around Chuckatuck (and probably around most of the nation). We have been blessed with enough rain to have the wildflowers pop up a little more. The butterflies have been inhabiting the yard and I’m looking with anticipation for chrysalis and cocoons. Given those things, we are happily moving on into […]
Happy 4th of July weekend. It is sweltering in Suffolk and many other places across the United States. Summer has arrived full force, but it is supposed to be more pleasant and rainy as the month continues. Hopefully we get enough rain to refill the pond again – the level is a little low but […]
Happy Sunday from the Rector’s study in steamy Chuckatuck. The cool early-summer has turned to steamy and rainy. Hopefully, enough rain to get closer to normal and to refill the pond. The milkweed are going crazy on the property and starting to attract butterflies. Life is returning to Chuckatuck and hope for tomorrow. May you […]
Blessings to you on Fathers’ Day: to those who are or were fathers, to those who have had father figures in their lives, and for those who have been blessed by a nurturing individual – either one by blood or by adoption or affiliation. We have had a tumultuous time in southside Virginia with unsettling […]
Greetings to you from the Rector’s Study in Chuckatuck as we begin the transition to summer. So far, late-spring is confused and it has been cooler than normal. This past week we had celebrated the lives of two parishioners who left our rolls in 2021: Leone Vigil on Friday (the homily is linked below) in […]