Friends: Thou who art over us, one of us, and also within us; may all see Thee in me also. May I prepare the way for Thee, thank Thee for all that shall fall to my lot, and not forget the needs of others.  Keep me in Thy love. Give me a pure heart that [...]

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Friends: To make the Easter Story into something that neither startles, shocks, terrifies nor excites is to “crucify the Son of God afresh” writes Dorothey Sayers.  The people who hanged Christ never accused him of being a bore; they thought him too dynamic to be safe.  Such compelling love cannot stay imprisoned within a cold [...]

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Friends: In a society which idolizes self-sufficiency, has a horror of dependence, and despises those whose misfortunes remind us of our own deep neediness, to petition God for daily bread and acknowledge the limits of our own resources, is an act of defiance against the social and spiritual status quo.  Those who intercede for the [...]

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Friends – in honor of Holy Week a poem from author John Updike who recently died: Seven Stanzas at Easter Make no mistake:  if He rose at all it was as His body; if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall. It was not as [...]

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Friends: May all that is unforgiven in you Be released. May your fears yield Their deepest tranquilities. May all that is unlived in you Blossom into a future Graced with love.  (“To Come Home To Yourself” John O’Donohue) What a marvelous and spirited 10th Anniversary we got to celebrate this past Sunday.  Our new Tent [...]

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