Palm Sunday 2025, Penelope Bridges After the celebration [singing and dancing], after the procession and the palms, after Hosannas and hymns, we have zigzagged our way through Scripture, finally descending in the Gospel through kangaroo court and public humiliation to the deep darkness of death on a Cross. The crowd disperses, the noise quiets, the … READ MORE…
Hello St. Paul’s, It seems like just the other day that we were imposing ashes and launching into the season of Lent, but here we are already on the verge of Holy Week, the center and heart of our year. Palm Sunday is a complicated day that attempts to commemorate not only the entry of … READ MORE…
Simpler Living Creation Care Ministry: In their Carbon Fast for Lent series, A Rocha invites us to consider eating lower down the food chain to reduce our carbon footprint. You can consider a vegetarian or vegan diet, but we can also reduce our carbon output by eating less meat. Now is a great time to consider what … READ MORE…
Rev. Cn. Richard Hogue Jr. When Jesus says, “You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” it can be a stumbling block for Christians. Most unscrupulously, it’s been an excuse to neglect the most vulnerable people, a sort of Scriptural cover to handwave away greed and exploitation. “What about … READ MORE…
Hello, St. Paul’s. One of my favorite Collects goes like this: “Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life …” We hear it … READ MORE…
Third Sunday in LentPenelope Bridges You’ve probably noticed that we start our service a little differently during Lent. For one thing, we do the confession up front – putting us in the right, repentant frame of mind for the solemnity of the Lenten worship. And we also hear Jesus’s words summarizing the law he lived … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground In Action (SGIA) & The Episcopal Church Office of Gov. Relations: The right to vote is as American as apple pie. Yet throughout the country over the past several years, many efforts have been made to disenfranchise voters or set up roadblocks to voter registration. Unfortunately, most of those efforts have been successful. … READ MORE…
From Simpler Living Creation Care Ministry: In our Lenten book study on Robin Wall Kimmerer’s The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, we are not only learning from the author’s wisdom about the importance of the gift economy as a challenge to capitalism and a way repair some of the harm done by … READ MORE…
Hello St Paul’s, Anyone who attends an Episcopal Sunday service more than once or twice knows that we have a certain structure to our worship services. The Book of Common Prayer is a great treasure, not least because it provides this structure, so that clergy don’t have to invent the service from whole cloth each … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground In Action (SGIA) & The Episcopal Church Office of Gov. Relations: The bipartisan American Dream and Promise Act of 2025 was reintroduced into Congress. It provides a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients, Temporary Protected Status individuals, and recipients of Deferred Enforced Departure, who have been longtime contributing members of their communities. “This … READ MORE…