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• Baptism at Sunday Eucharist

  
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  From the East balcony, a view over our narthex and the Rite of Baptism as celebrated at a recent Sunday Mass. What’s interesting is that over the past fourteen years, no young person or anybody else for that matter, needs prompting to leave their seats to get a closer look if they wish.
  6 days ago

• Evening Prayer 6.11.13: St. Barnabas, Apostle

  
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  But Barnabas took Paul, brought him to the apostles, and described for them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus. T.S. Montgomery, architect, 1960: St. Barnabas on the Desert, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Worship the Lord in the ...
  1 week ago

• Evening Prayer 6.10.13: Ephrem of Edessa, Deacon, 373

  
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  They understood nothing about all these things; in fact, what he said was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said. El Greco: Jesus Heals a Blind Man Let my prayer be set forth in your sight as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Psalm 141:2 INVITATORY AND PSALTER O ...
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• Prayer Resources

  
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  I posted this on the parish’s liturgy facebook page yesterday. We provide resources for prayer, but as with many church things, you have to know where to look. At the very top, we have a few missalettes for people who would like the readings, either to follow along during Mass or to take home. We get about 35 large ...
  1 week ago

• Morning Prayer 6.8.13: Roland Allen, Mission Strategist, 1947

  
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  Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! Michael Belk: Jesus and the Rich Young Man Thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, “I dwell in the high and holy place and also with the one who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive ...
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• Obstacles

  
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  In thirty years of playing at weddings I had a first tonight. Sixty-some minutes before the wedding, it surfaced that groom and bride had no wedding license. They thought the church provided that. No, we do not. Our city is not the county seat. The county seat is twenty miles away. I presume speed limits were pushed ...
  1 week ago

• Morning Prayer 6.7.13: Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil, 1890

  
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  You shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his name. Firstfruits: Maize around the Fire (National Museum of ...
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• Morning Prayer 6.6.13: Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945

  
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  For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has—not according to what one does not have. This is a fuzzy picture from a month ago, but it’s an answer to our prayers: Mother Paula Jackson returned to Church of Our Saviour, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA May 4 after emergency surgery. ...
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• Evening Prayer 6.5.13: Boniface, Archbishop, Missionary & Martyr, 754

  
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  Jesus said, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.” The Rev. Dr. Roger Shinn, a theologian and ecumenist who wrote the statement of faith of the United Church of Christ in the United States, has died. He was a decorated infantryman in World War II who later counseled conscientious objectors ...
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• Evening Prayer 6.3.13: The Martyrs of Uganda, 1886

  
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  Be on your guard! If another disciple sins, you must rebuke the offender, and if there is repentance, you must forgive. Dusk at my home parish, St. John’s, Lafayette, Indiana, USA. (Angie Klink) Let my prayer be set forth in your sight as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Psalm ...
  2 weeks ago

• Narthex Panorama

  
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  This is from the last 7pm Mass of the semester, about fifteen minutes after Mass. It’s nice to be back from exile, mainly because people have more reason for the post-liturgical buzz. You get the baptismal font, the Story Wall, a sweep of our narthex under the East balcony, the Reconciliation Chapel, and a bit of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Morning Prayer 5.30.13: Joan of Arc, Mystic & Soldier, 1431

  
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  So acknowledge today and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. Bishop Diane Jardine Bruce and confirmands gave the final blessing on Pentecost at St. Cross, Hermosa Beach, California. (The Rev. Robert Cornner) Send our your light and your truth, that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Temp Parish Life Coordinator – St. Mary Catholic Church and School (Littleton, CO)

  
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  TEMP PARISH LIFE COORDINATOR Pastoral Ministry, FT TempSt. Mary Catholic Church and School (Littleton, CO)Reports to Director of Discipleship and Catechesis This position is non-exempt, full-time temporary (8 - 12 weeks): 40 hours per week. Will work ...
  2 weeks ago

• Evening Prayer 5.28.13: Bertha & Bert of Kent

  
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  There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. Good Shepherd window, St. John’s, Union City, New Jersey, USA If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Morning Prayer 5.28.13: Bertha & Ethelbert, Queen & King of Kent, 616, tr.

  
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  For in Christ every one of God’s promises is a “Yes.” We ask your prayers for the Rev. Malcolm Marler, ordained deacon last week at Grace Church, Cullman, Alabama, USA. He is a chaplain at UAB Hospital in Birmingham and previously was ordained in another tradition. He’s a member of our Facebook group and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Evening Prayer 5.24.13: Jackson Kemper, Apostle of the Old Northwest

  
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  When you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, “Friend, move up higher.” Nelly Bube: Parable of the Wedding Feast I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel; my heart teaches me, night after night. I have set the Lord always before me; because ...
  3 weeks ago

• Morning Prayer 5.24.13: Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in the United States, 1870

  
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  Then Boaz said, “The day you acquire the field from the hand of Naomi, you are also acquiring Ruth the Moabite.” Pentecost altar at St. John’s, Crawfordsville, Indiana, the oldest Episcopal church in the state; it’s one of hundreds of churches, schools and other institutions established by Bishop Kemper, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Coffee

  
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  Since my big-loss diet of almost two years ago, I’ve enjoyed being lighter. But I’ve also struggled with the aftermath: putting some pounds back on and taking them off again, confronting my pattern to eat to soothe myself, watching when I tend to gorge. This past year, I’ve been drinking a bit more coffee. The ...
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• Evening Prayer 5.22.13: The First Book of Common Prayer, 1549

  
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  The Vicar says, As the New Testament made us Christians, the Book of Common Prayer made us Anglicans. If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Colossians 3:1 INVITATORY AND PSALTER O God, be not far from us. Come quickly ...
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• Morning Prayer 5.22.13: The First Book of Common Prayer, 1549

  
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  Don: Welcome back! — He was revealed in flesh, vindicated in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory. Judith Mehr: Ruth Gleaning in the Fields. “Gleaning” means gathering the grain left behind by the reapers. It’s a means of ...
  4 weeks ago

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