Tag Archives: Prayer

Be Like Jesus

Posted on October 23, 2015 by matthewhanisian

“After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.” Mark 1:35   Dealing with people can be tiresome work.  We are a tiresome lot indeed!  Ha!  Why? … Continue reading →

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Crispy

Posted on September 2, 2015 by deborahmeister

Last weekend, I found myself crispy. Really crispy. A series of family events had left me drained and fractured, with nothing to give. I was supposed to preach the Good News, and the truth was that I needed some myself. … Continue reading →

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Patterns

Posted on March 12, 2015 by sonyasutton

Liturgical beings that Episcopalians are, we say some of the same words every Sunday, sometimes for years or even a lifetime. Our Father, who art in heaven… There is joy and comfort to be found in repetition. Patterns can be … Continue reading →

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Everybody Just Shut Up

Posted on October 24, 2014 by matthewhanisian

When I was teaching 5th and 6th grade religion class at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School I had a challenge for each of the six sections of 5th graders I saw every week:  two full minutes of silence at the … Continue reading →

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South Africa – Week 1

Posted on August 7, 2014 by sonyasutton

Actually, my story begins in Istanbul.  (Wouldn’t that be a great first line for a novel?) During the (hair-raising) taxi ride from the airport to our hotel in Istanbul we were never out of hearing range of the Islamic call to … Continue reading →

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A Three-Part Prayer

Posted on July 10, 2014 by sonyasutton

I’ve become more regular, to the point of devotion, in my practice of yoga this past year, and have enjoyed noticing all the different ways that yoga mirrors what is necessary for good singing. Obvious things like a focus on … Continue reading →

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Faith in the trenches

Posted on July 2, 2014 by deborahmeister

As many of you know, I grew up in a Jewish home in Virginia, not far from where I am sitting to write this post. Two days a week, I would go to Shabbat school at our synagogue. The curriculum … Continue reading →

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The Alban Prayer

Posted on June 19, 2014 by sonyasutton

(first published on June 24, 2010) Almighty God, We thank you for this place built to your glory and in memory of Alban, our first martyr: Following his example in the fellowship of the saints, may we worship and adore … Continue reading →

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Commonality

Posted on June 12, 2014 by sonyasutton

It’s always fascinating to contemplate the future. Scary, exciting, confusing, but certainly something most of us think about. Of course, the best any of us – the most learned expert to the youngest child – can do is look at … Continue reading →

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Heart-Drawn

Posted on November 14, 2013 by sonyasutton

In great deeds, something abides.  On great fields, something stays.  Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls…generations that know us not, and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see … Continue reading →

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