Greetings from “not Chuckatuck” on the 3rd Sunday after the Epiphany. We are still dealing with a winter storm that has dropped sufficient snow and cold weather on the region to make it unsafe for routine travel and gathering. The predictions were fairly good, with snowfall ranging from ~8″ in Virginia Beach to 3-4″ in […]
Greetings on a grey Sunday over the Atlantic seaboard (although some may be getting snow). Today was a day that we gave thanks for the assurance that where 2 or 3 (or 4) are gathered in God’s name, God is in the midst of them. Ironically, when listening to the singing it sounds like there […]
Happy Epiphany-tide to you. We celebrated our first Eucharist of 2022 having celebrated Christmas Lessons & Carols last week. It has been a good week in Chuckatuck, moving forward from Christmas into the Epiphany Season. We’ve had a bit of winter this week – snow, cold (for Suffolk), and wind. Thankfully, over the holiday we […]
Grace and peace to you on the first Sunday in 2022. It was a nice celebration of the second Sunday after Christmas. While our tradition of Christmas Lessons and Carols was delayed one week we celebrated, as the Bidding Prayer reminds us by observing “our duty and delight to hear once more the message of […]
Merry Christmas on the 1st Sunday after Christmas and the second day of Christmas. The hooded mergansers are back in the pond for their annual visit, a refreshing reminder of the constancy of life in the middle of the chaos of life well lived. We had a slightly lower key celebration as we heard the […]