Bishop Katharine started out her adult life as an oceanographer. According to her, this was a vocation that she dearly loved. But when the government’s funding for the research program on which she worked ran out, she found herself without an income & ” at loose ends”. In her book she said that the subject [...]
This week is Advent 3, 2011 in the Church Year. During yesterday morning’s homily my priest talked about how the third Sunday in Advent has been known as ” Rose Sunday. Contrary to popular belief, this nickname has nothing to do with the Blessed Virgin Mary–rather it marks the ” halfway” part of Advent. This [...]
Once again, the Holy Spirit tells me what I NEED to know, not what I want to hear! Today’s meditation by our Presiding Bishop deals with the ” Total Ministry” of the baptized. By virtue of our baptism, all Christians are ministers. Look in our Prayer Book in the Catechism, and note that the ministry [...]
It’s that time of year again….soon I must present my spiritual autobiography to my EfM seminar group. Thankfully I still have two more weeks to polish this years’ version of my spiritual autobiography, but its gonna be very different from the past two years’ autobiographies. I’ve grown a lot since last summer & a lot [...]
” It takes a village to raise a child.”~ Hillary Clinton. On Sunday evening my little parish hosted our first Episcopal Youth Connection{ EYC} meeting in the parish hall. The program was ” Popcorn Theology” , so we watched a Harry Potter movie & had a discussion with our young people but the theological symbolism [...]
This morning as I was rustling around some stuff in my bedroom searching for things that I need to bring to the church for Sunday School 2011, I came across a poster with the Scripture quote from Psalm 143. It goes something like this: “You are my God. Show me what you want me to [...]
My computer had to go to the ” shop” last week. My bill for the repair of my machine came to a whopping 169 dollars. Ouch. Granted, the tech guy pretty much revamped ALL the programs on my Dell laptop & cleaned out several viruses but the repair bill really took a huge cut from [...]
This morning I assisted at the altar as an acolyte at the 10:30 Mass. I loved it! Sure I felt nervous but once I got into the liturgy of the Eucharist, I relaxed. My rector commented that I only made ONE mistake while serving at the altar…apparently I need to refine my Gospel-book holding technique [...]
I’m almost finished with Albert Cutie’s book_ Dilemma_. As a matter of fact, if I were feeling better physically, I would have skipped my Sunday afternoon nap in order to finish this fascinating insider’s foray into the inner workings of the hierarchy in Rome. Fr Cutie tried in spite of his growing disagreements with the [...]
Thanks to my friend,Holly, I now own a hardback copy of a title that has been on my ” must-read” list since the day it arrived on shelves. My next book of choice is _Dilemma_ by Albert Cutie+ {pronounced koo-tee eh} . his story is more than one of sex, love and a former Roman [...]
