It was a beautiful and touching service at Oakland Christian United Church of Christ. As has been our practice since before I arrived at St. John’s, we gather as a community for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunrise. We gathered as a community to remember that night where Jesus and his Disciples celebrated the […]
Prayers for God’s grace to you as we begin our Holy Week journey. Blustery and damp moving to raining by the end of service – brings a change of plans to the Procession of the Palms. Today was another day to open our doors to visitors and long-past former members of the Glebe-St. John’s Cure. […]
April is upon us, and our Lenten journey slowly comes to a close. The churchyard is abloom with buttercups, dandelions, henbit, and “purple flowers”. Our preparations for Easter in the yard have begun in earnest: flower beds have been cleared, trees tended, flowers prepared for planting, and a new crapemyrtle should be in before Easter. […]
Blessings to you on Laetare Sunday (the 4th Sunday in Lent) and the final day of March. I think March was confused – it missed the “in like a lion, out like a lamb” adage because the weather has been unsettled and rainy for a bit of the last week. We had a lot of […]
Greetings from Chuckatuck – Lent rolls along and March is confused. It has been more like a lion than a lamb in Suffolk, not as bad as other places around the country but still near freezing and windy. And life continues as we work through the first two weeks of Lent and the places that […]