Deacon Leah Sandwell-Weiss

Posted on February 10, 2025

Dear friends, I am the oldest of five children, with four brothers. When reading about Scholastica, Benedict of Nursia’s sister, and today’s saint, I started thinking…

Fr Robert Hendrickson

Posted on February 9, 2025

Dear Friends in Christ, I wonder if you have something you cling to despite all evidence? I think we all do. We all have something that…

Mtr Margaret Babcock

Posted on February 8, 2025

Dear Friends, I often wonder about a word when I read a Biblical passage. The word which caught my attention in today’s gospel reading (Mark 9:14-29)…

Jordan Paul

Posted on February 7, 2025

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.— St. Augustine This I say then, Walk in…

Shirin McArthur

Posted on February 6, 2025

Let the wicked forsake their way and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to…

Justin Appel

Posted on February 5, 2025

Dear Friends, Today’s reading from Isaiah chapter 54 is a beautiful account of God’s mercy to the world. This passage states that the children of the “barren…

Fr Matthew Reese

Posted on February 4, 2025

For God alone my soul in silence waits. —Psalm 62:1 Dear Friends, Some years ago, my fellow seminarians and I went up into the New England…

Deacon Tom Lindell

Posted on February 3, 2025

My brothers and sisters, Today we remember the Four Army Chaplains who died when their troop ship, the SS Dorchester, sank after being hit by a…

Fr Robert Hendrickson

Posted on February 2, 2025

Dear Friends in Christ, I’ve been thinking about a quote from a 1961 book by Daniel J Boorstin titled, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in…

Travis Reese

Posted on February 1, 2025

Dear Friends, There is a sports term used often in culture and increasingly politics called “moving the goalposts.” It basically means that when any sort of…

Matt Bonaime

Posted on January 31, 2025

Dear Friends, Mark 6:47-56 is a Bible passage that Christians and non-Christians alike seem to know to some extent. Reading the verses again today, I was…

Lisa Bowden

Posted on January 30, 2025

Friends, Today in Mark* is one of the famed fishes and loaves stories where Jesus provides for thousands of hungry and sick folks. Jesus and his…

Deacon Leah Sandwell-Weiss

Fr Robert Hendrickson

Mtr Margaret Babcock

Jordan Paul

Shirin McArthur

Justin Appel

Fr Matthew Reese

Deacon Tom Lindell

Fr Robert Hendrickson

Travis Reese

Matt Bonaime

Lisa Bowden

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