Justin Appel

Posted on January 29, 2025

Dear Friends, Today, I would like to take as my beginning, two lines from today’s Heth section of Psalm 119: “You only are my portion, O Lord” “The earth,…

Fr Matthew Reese

Posted on January 28, 2025

“‘Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with…

Deacon Susan Erickson

Posted on January 27, 2025

Psalms 41, 52; Isaiah 48:1-11; Galatians 1:1-17 Dear Siblings in Christ, Today’s readings for Morning Prayer offer a contrast in perspectives; you might even say that…

Fr Robert Hendrickson

Posted on January 26, 2025

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim…

Emily Lyons

Posted on January 25, 2025

Dear Friends, Today we remember and give thanks for the conversion of Paul. In his letter to the Galatians, in addition to recounting how intent he…

Deacon Brigid Waszczak

Posted on January 24, 2025

As He [Jesus] spoke… a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!”…

Chotard Doll

Posted on January 23, 2025

Dear Friends, On this date the church celebrates Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, who died on this day in 1893. I’ve heard that name all my…

Justin Appel

Posted on January 22, 2025

Dear Friends, Today’s Old Testament lesson from the prophet Isaiah has a familiar ring. Much of the book of Job reads similarly, as God answers Job in…

Fr Matthew Reese

Posted on January 21, 2025

“All who make idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit; their witnesses neither see nor know. And so they will be…

Deacon Anne Strong

Posted on January 20, 2025

Matthew 10: 16-22 Hello my sisters and brothers, Every January in the the Christian year, we celebrate the Epiphany—that dramatic moment when the three wiseman, led…