Lessons: Genesis 32:22-31 Psalm 121 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 Luke 18:1-8 What to expect when you are expecting the worst : living with metastatic breast cancer I have been leery most of my life about showers. I saw Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho in about 1960 at age 12; my parents were expecting a thriller very like TheContinue reading “Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost by Anne North”
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The Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Blessing of the Animals by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Jeremiah 22:13–16 Galatians 6:14–18 Matthew 11:25–30 Psalm 148:7–14 I’ve been struggling these past few days. Maybe you have been struggling too. Watching and listening to and reading about Thursday morning’s hearings was hard. Witnessing the kind of pain we saw on Thursday morn, the kind of grief that we saw, the kind ofContinue reading “The Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Blessing of the Animals by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Corbet Clark
Lessons: Isaiah 25:1-9 Psalm 23 Philippians 4:1-9 Matthew 22:1-14
St. Francis of Assisi + Blessing of the Animals + Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Jeremiah 22:13-16 Psalm 148:7-14 Galatians 6:14-18 Matthew 11:25-30 To visit the town of Assisi is to step into a place which is equal parts awesome and ironic. Walking up the hill to the town’s enormous and ornate basilica, you will pass gelato stands, stores selling postcards and T-shirts, and restaurants which offer anContinue reading “St. Francis of Assisi + Blessing of the Animals + Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”