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Letting Go Lent Meditation by Charlene Moore
posted on Feb 23, 2024 I heard the phrase LETTING GO about twenty years ago, from a very wise woman. She explained to me that letting go was not something you just do, it's a process that you learn to do. I heard what she said but didn't quite understand it. I pondered...
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Lent Meditation from Jennifer Fletcher
posted on Feb 21, 2024 Practically from birth, my life was shaped around the core notion that I should be perfect in everything I undertook - the perfect daughter, student, teacher, mother, nurse, friend. I believed I should never make a mistake at home, at work, even ...
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Letting Go Lent Meditation by Mandy Ochoa
posted on Feb 19, 2024 There have been many times in my life that God has encouraged me to let go. The starkest example happened about four years ago when I had a crisis in my struggle with bipolar disorder. A symptom of the manic side of bipolar is an inflated se...
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Letting Go Lent Meditation by Michael Ankerich
posted on Feb 16, 2024 Letting go is hard work, my friends. To me, letting go means choosing to free ourselves from a loss, grievance, or life transition that leaves us paralyzed with grief, uncertainty, anxiety, and chaos. My first intentional act of letting go c...
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Letting Go Lent Meditation by Grace Burton-Edwards
posted on Feb 16, 2024 Friends, Sunday was a wonderful occasion. Thank you all for a beautiful celebration of 10 years of ministry together. The event caused me to remember where I was ten years ago. On Sunday, February 9, 2014, I said goodbye to a church and schoo...
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We are Hiring!
posted on Feb 13, 2024 Administrative Assistant, part-time (15 hours a week) The Assistant will serve the parish by answering phones, managing the entrance to the office, preparing Sunday bulletins and assisting with data entry. This position will also support other ...
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Music in Lent
posted on Feb 12, 2024 A message from Rick McKnight We work in a common goal that the music supports the liturgy. In Lent, our services are quieter and more solemn and the music follows suit. The First Sunday in Lent we chant The Great Litany in procession to open...
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Reconciliation of a Penitent
posted on Feb 11, 2024 Some Christian traditions emphasize the practice of individual confession during Lent. In The Episcopal Church, we call it the Rite of Reconciliation of a Penitent. Two forms of the rite are on pages 447 and 449 of the Book of Common Prayer. ...
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Sunday Worship in Lent
posted on Feb 11, 2024 During Lent, we let go of some of our usual patterns of worship and embrace different patterns to mark this season. We begin the service with more quiet. We pray with Rite I, the older language of the Prayer Book, to help us pay more att...
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Celebrating 10 Years of Ministry with Rev. Grace Burton-Edwards
posted on Feb 1, 2024 This February will mark the 10-year anniversary of Rev. Grace Burton-Edwards' installment as Rector of St. Thomas. On Sunday, February 11th, we will gather in the Parish Hall for a lunch celebration, recognizing all that we have accomplished toge...
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