Fr Alex Swain
Beloved in Christ, Today is a holy day marked as “Other Feasts of Our Lord” (BCP 16). It’s none other than the Presentation of Our Lord…
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Richard Mallory
Dear friends of Saint Philip’s, I invite you to consider two contemporary versions of the Beatitudes. One by Garnass-Holmes and the other by Stassen. See which…
Chotard Doll
Dear Friends: Today in Genesis Abraham and Sarah are visited in their tent by the Oaks of Mamre by “The Lord, seen as three men to…
John Koza
Dear friends in Christ, Two of our readings for today are absolutely miraculous and awesome. Firstly, from Genesis 17: 15-19 we read: “God said to Abraham,…
Lisa Bowden
(Hebrews 10:1-10) Dear Friends, “Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it…
Justin Appel
Dear Friends, Today’s Epistle reading is a beautiful and rhetorically powerful description of Christ’s sacrifice. The author of the Letter to the Hebrews describes how Jesus has…
Fr Alex Swain
Beloved in Christ, Today we observe the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle. Saul, an incredibly educated and observant Jewish man, who later…
Richard Mallory
Dear Friends of Christ, With alarm, Jesus withdraws further from Jerusalem’s environs with the news that his cousin and possible mentor has been arrested. He has…
Sue Agnew
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are…
Deacon Brigid Waszczak
Sing joyfully to the Lord… it is fitting… to praise him.Praise the Lord with the harp; make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.Let Your mercy, O LORD, be upon…
Chotard Doll
Friends, Recently two of my friends have confronted death, being sent home from the hospital to die. Both of them accepted the news gracefully, and refused extraordinary measures…
Justin Appel
Dear Friends, Today, the Episcopal Church remembers Saints Cecilia and Agnes, martyrs from the city of Rome in the 3rd and 4th centuries. St Cecilia’s feast…