Monthly Archives: April 2012

Tick tock

Posted on April 30, 2012 by stalbansparish

Sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour, twenty-four hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 52 weeks in a year.  Time can fly, hang, and stand still.  Time, and our relationship to it, seems always … Continue reading →

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How do we Believe and Grieve

Posted on April 27, 2012 by matthewhanisian

“Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day” John 6:54a Three weeks ago I was on the phone with an elderly gentleman from Cincinnati, my home … Continue reading →

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But like a child at home

Posted on April 26, 2012 by sonyasutton

It’s impossible to know how many musical settings of the 23rd Psalm there are.   In The Hymnal 1982 alone there are four settings (Hymns 645, 646, 663 and 664).  Choral anthems and solo settings may well run into the hundreds.  … Continue reading →

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San Marco

Posted on April 25, 2012 by deborahmeister

A few years ago, I had the good fortune to find myself at the Basilica of San Marco, in Venice. A rococo fantasy of white stone, delicate tracery, and soaring domes, it seems to float above the ground. Within, golden … Continue reading →

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Accidental Communion

Posted on April 23, 2012 by stalbansparish

I didn’t want to go to Communion this past Sunday.  Just didn’t want to.  Since I was on the schedule to lead the Teen Service, I ducked into the Little Sanctuary fully planning on ditching when the group left to … Continue reading →

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Abstinence Dispensed

Posted on April 20, 2012 by matthewhanisian

In my office is a calendar.  The calendar is the “Churchman’s Ordo Kalendar” which shows a whole host of good things like the saint of the day, which proper preface is said at the daily Eucharist if you are having … Continue reading →

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Goodbye, Hello

Posted on April 19, 2012 by sonyasutton

It was almost exactly one year that I first posted this piece, and in saying goodbye to yet another colleague this coming weekend I find it still says what I’m feeling: It has become painfully clear that the more people … Continue reading →

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Gird up your minds

Posted on April 18, 2012 by deborahmeister

“I am the Lord, your healer.” (Ex 15:26) In front of my apartment building stand two trees, apparently dead. Spring came, and they did nothing. Snowdrops emerged; the trees did nothing. Crocus came, then daffodils; the trees were dormant. The … Continue reading →

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Pay it forward – “Do to others as you would have them do to you.”

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Carol Flett

I am so grateful for being right here in this powerful place, right now in this time of my life. I feel fully present to this moment in my life. It feels like a new beginning – similar to a … Continue reading →

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A New Season

Posted on April 16, 2012 by stalbansparish

It is lighter longer into the evening.  The grass is greener. The air stays just that wee bit warmer through the night.  A new season is upon us. As the past few months of preparation and reflection fall away, and … Continue reading →

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