June 25, 2025 Sum-Sum-Summertime! @ Epiphany We hope your summer has started off well and in this week that is like being under a blowtorch, you are able to stay cool. Mark your calendars! Here are some highlights for July! Let’s make the most of the summer together! Watermelon Wednesdays! 7pm (grill hot until 8pm) July […]

June 18, 2025 Three Limericks on the Trinity This past Sunday was the first Sunday after Pentecost, which is celebrated as Trinity Sunday. The Trinity (Father-Son-Holy Spirit) is deceptively challenging, this concept of the three persons in one God. We treat the Trinity as a heady topic. And it is. And it is one of […]

June 11, 2025 Traditions at Epiphany: Iconsby parishioner Dick Fichter with assistance from Rev. Dina Last week we discussed the inlaid marquetry of The Last Supper and noted that it was on the Nave’s east wall between two icons. Icons as a tradition in the Episcopal Church, not so much. When one thinks of icons, usually […]

June 4, 2025 Traditions at Epiphany: Wood Craftingby parishioner Dick Fichter with assistance from Rev. Dina We continue with traditions at Epiphany. Last time we noted the needlepoint on the east wall of the Nave, which are the alpha and omega. On the adjacent wall is The Last Supper between two icons. The Last Supper […]

May 28, 2025 Traditions at Epiphanyby parishioner Dick Fichter with assistance from Rev. Dina Last week we discussed traditions in general with liturgy as part of our religious experience. This time we will touch on a few traditions which are readily visible at Epiphany and others which are not so visible. We would like to […]

May 21, 2025 Memorial Day As we prepare for the different ways we will celebrate Memorial Day this coming weekend, some of us venturing for the first time together to Shrine Mont, some of us remaining at Oak Hill, others traveling elsewhere, be sure to make time to set aside time to remember those who […]

May 7, 2025 Tradition in the Episcopal Churchby parishioner Dick Fichter with assistance from Rev. Dina We have recently considered Lenten Reflections, celebrated Easter Sunday, and considered the various closings in the gospel of Mark. We are now in Eastertide with the Pascal Candle lit during Eastertide services. There is no mention of the candle […]

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 […]