Pastor's Letter
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Dear Friends,
We pray you are safe and well.
Yesterday was the Feastday of St. Lucy/Santa Lucia. She is the patron saint of those who are blind, of those who are seeing and seeking. Her name means light/lucidity. In this time of darkness and division, she models one who guides us through.
Read more: MEDITATION 225: St. Lucy meets Deepak Chopra (12/14/2020)
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Dear Friends,
We pray you are safe and well.
As you know, the Jewish Community is celebrating Hanukkah. Today's Meditation is in celebration of Hanukkah and is a song by Debbie Friedman entitled "The Latke Song."
Read more: MEDITATION 223: Debbie Friedman sings "The Latke Song" (12/11/2020)
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Dear Friends,
We pray you are safe and well.
On this anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton, Joan Chittister provides today's Meditation: we become more and more contemplative as we grow deeper and deeper into seeing the universe as the heart of God sees it: all is sacred!
Read more: MEDITATION 222: The stuff of contemplation (12/10/2020)
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Dear Friends,
We pray you are safe and well.
In today's Meditation Rev. William Barber and The Poor People's Campaign: A Call for a Moral Revival propose 14 Priorities to Heal the Nation. You may remember Rev. Barber's challenging each of us to be a moral defibrillator in our own corner of the world calling forth in others (and in ourselves) the moral life-giving response.
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Dear Friends,
We pray you are safe and well.
Today is Bodhi Day (also celebrated on January 20, 2021 by some traditions.) It commemorates the Day on which the historical Buddha Siddhartha Gautama (Shakyamuni) experienced enlightenment. In today's Meditation Thich Nhat Hahn provides 4 mantras to help us transform fear into love. It is interesting that Henri Nouwen describes the spiritual life as a journey from The House of Fear to The House of Love.
Read more: MEDITATION 220: The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love (12/8/2020)