Pastor's Letter

Details

Dear Friends,

We hope that you are safe and well.

 Today's Meditation is a reflection on St Francis of Assisi and his Peace Prayer.

We invite you to join us as we commit ourselves to working tirelessly to end systemic and structural racism in our society, in the church, in healthcare, in the workplace--wherever it shows up so that everyone may come to have more abundant life. May this meditation nourish our contemplative-active hearts and sustain all of us in action.

Details

Dear Friends,

 We hope that you are safe and well.

 Today's Meditation is a reflection by Joyce Rupp on the nearness of God: "I Am Whewrever there is Love." She tells it through a lovely story, a journal of compassion entry and then questions to ponder.

Details

Dear Friends,

 We hope that you are safe and well.

 Today's Meditation features Henri Nouwen reflecting on God dwelling in us here and now--As Catherine of Siena would say: "all the way to heaven is heaven." Heaven is not a place--it is a way of living, a way of relating to others--with acceptance, with care, with curiosity and wonder, with joy.

Details

Dear Friends,

 We hope that you are safe and well.

 In our modern world, we think of email messages and text messages. Angels are messengers of God, as are dreams and nature and other people. In the Church calendar, today we celebrate the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. Today's Meditation zeroes in on Raphael, the angel of healing.

Details

Dear Friends,

 We hope that you are safe and well.

 This is our 35th Wedding Anniversary. Today's Meditation is the Wedding Vows that we wrote together and said to each other 35 years ago today. They are beautifully captured in the calligraphy drawn and painted by my sister Mary. On our wedding day we also sang a song to all the good people who have touched our lives and we sing it to you today:

  1. MEDITATION 781: Ilia Delio: " The Death of God and the Rebirth of God" (9/22/22)
  2. MEDITATION 783: Celtic Autumn Equinox or Mabon (9/21/22)
  3. MEDITATION 782: "What Queen Elizabeth means to us" Miles Pattenden (9/20/22)
  4. MEDITATION 776: Joan Chittister: "Heart to Heart" (9/19/22)