April 30, 2025 Different Endings in the First Gospelby parishioner Dick Fichter with assistance from Rev. DinaNow we return in Eastertide, what we began just before Lenten pause in our Hump Day messages. Our last HDM was about the New Testament in the NRSV and the first Gospel – the Gospel of Mark. As previously […]

April 23, 2025 Briefly It Enters, and Briefly SpeaksJane Kenyon I am the blossom pressed in a book,found again after two hundred years. . . . I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper…. When the young girl who starvessits down to a tableshe will sit beside me. . . . I am food […]

April 9, 2025 A Practice of Patienceexcerpt from the 2025 Living Compass Lenten Devotional Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him.—Psalm 37:7 The Welcoming Prayer teaches us the gentle art of patience—meeting and embracing each moment exactly as it is, rather than rushing toward what might be. Like the stillness the psalm […]

April 2, 2025 A Practice of Opennessexcerpt from the 2025 Living Compass Lenten Devotional (Pick one up in the Narthex!) It is in giving that we receive.—St. Francis of Assisi The practice of Centering Prayer invites us into a profound paradox: by giving our complete attention to God, we receive more than we could imagine. […]