July 3, 2024 THANK YOU! And – Camels Then and Now Thank you for providing me with a nice vacation period which enabled me to visit my cousins in Arizona and California. I had a great time with them, and I am only sorry that I was not able to enjoy the big Fourth of July […]

The HDM deliveries are going on vacation in June! 🙂 The Hump Day Messages are taking a vacation in June and will return in July with some fun examinations and observations about the Church. What is that Nicece Creed all about anyway? Until we return: A summer break blessing! For Equilibrium, a Blessing by John […]

May 23, 2024 Another poem for Pentecost and the season after. PENTECOST by Derek Walcott Better a jungle in the headthan rootless concrete.Better to stand bewilderedby the fireflies’ crooked street; winter lamps do not showwhere the sidewalk is lost,nor can these tongues of snowspeak for the Holy Ghost; the self-increasing silence of words dropped from a […]

May 15, 2024 Worship: A Multigenerational and Shared ExperienceSuggestions for Living into the Grace of it All Did you know? Worship is a shared experience. It is an embodied experience. It is meant to give us an experience of what God’s Kingdom, of what Beloved Community is like. In worship, we all participate. We get to practice […]

May 8, 2024 Another poem for Eastertide! Into One Spiritan Eastertide poem, on baptismSarah Agnew it runs, it frolics, it drives a pathinto the earthslowly deeperquickening keeper of the rootsfurrowed alongsidefrom the profligate scatteringof seeds some time agoit runsa way both followingand beckoning, respondingand callingit runsaloneyours aloneand yet it joinsa river running far beneath all riversearth […]

April 24, 2024 Easter is a season of 50 days, not one. It is a season. A season longer than Lent. Longer than Advent. Longer than Christmastide. Longer than Epiphany (most of the time). Every one of these fifty days, for which we are now at the midpoint, is an invitation to focus attention on resurrection. […]

an Eastertide poemMary Oliver I have refused to livelocked in the orderly house of     reasons and proofs.The world I live in and believe inis wider than that. And anyway,     what’s wrong with Maybe?You wouldn’t believe what once ortwice I have seen. I’ll just     tell you this:only if there are angels in your head will you     ever, possibly, see one. […]

by Dick Fichter, Parishionerwith support from Rev. Dina, RectorApril 3, 2024 Happy Easter, Did You Enjoy Decorating Easter Eggs or an Easter Egg Hunt? Easter is the feast of Christ’s resurrection (Episcopal Glossary). According to Bede, the word derives from the Anglo-Saxon spring goddess Eostre. Christians in England applied the word to the principal festival […]

a series by Dick Fichter, Parishionerwith support from Rev. Dina, RectorMarch 20, 2024 The following contains substantial portions from an article by Professor Doug Linder on the Famous Trials Website, The Trial of Jesus: An Account (2002), and also from the Living in Christ series, the Political and Religious Structure in Jesus’ Time, Saint Mary’s […]

a series by Dick Fichter, Parishionerwith support from Rev. Dina, RectorMarch 13, 2024 The following contains substantial portions from an article by Professor Doug Linder on the Famous Trials Website, The Trial of Jesus: An Account (2002) and also from the Living in Christ series, The Political and Religious Structure in Jesus’ Time, Saint Mary’s […]