Chotard Doll

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Friends, I find myself, in this inward-facing season of Lent, reflecting on Simplicity.   I see Simplicity as an inward condition we outwardly express. Clearly that inward condition…
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Justin Appel

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Dear Friends, Today’s Epistle reading is especially deep. Several things seem to be nested within St Paul’s rich text. The first is that God’s wisdom, given…
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Fr Matthew Reese

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After the death of Judas Iscariot, Peter said to the believers, “For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his homestead become desolate, and…
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Fr Alex Swain

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Beloved in Christ, Today we remember the blessed memory of Polycarp of Smyrna, Bishop and Martyr (d.~156 AD). While his feast day does not override the…
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Richard Mallory

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Dear Friends of Christ, In today’s epistle (Romans 5:12-21), Paul addresses sin that originated with the first human and it’s been down hill ever since. Newsfeeds…
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Edina Hall

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Sisters and Brothers in Christ,  When my husband and I were first married, we got caught up starting a gratitude journal popularized by Oprah in the late 1990s. My early gratitude journal was rough and entries were hurried. While…
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Kyle Dresback

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Friends,  I was excited a few months back upon seeing that the Latin phrase ordo amoris— Augustine’s concept of rightly ordered loves—was trending online. My excitement…
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Justin Appel

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Dear Friends, As today marks the beginning of our Lenten journey, I would simply like to share the text of Psalm 51, that emblematic psalm on the theme…
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Fr Matthew Reese

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“Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not enter the praetorium, so that they might…
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Fr Alex Swain

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Beloved in Christ, Today’s reading from Proverbs has a lot to say to us about the fundamental importance of community. Well, quite frankly, it has a…
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Richard Mallory

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The Transfigurationby Malcolm Guite For that one moment, ‘in and out of time’,On that one mountain where all moments meet,The daily veil that covers the sublimeIn…
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