Apr 20, 2020 by Rev. Dr. Nancy Lee Jose

Jesus appears to his followers

O God, whose blessed Son did manifest himself to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open, we pray thee, the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work. (Collect for 3 Easter) The Gospels tell us a curious story about Jesus appearing to his followers after his death. • The disciples had seen Jesus crucified and dead on the cross. They had looked for his body in the tomb, but had been able to gain no solace even in preparing his flesh for the grave.• Then as they w…

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Apr 13, 2020 by The Rev. Dr. Nancy Lee Jose

Alleluia. Christ is Risen. by Nancy Lee Jose

Alleluia. Christ is risen.The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia. We are Easter-people! • Believers in life, inexhaustible.• Believers in love, unconquerable.• Believers in compassion, as deep as Good Friday.• Believers in Easter-extravagance, bursting the tombs of all powers that would contain it. “Now the green blade riseth from the buried grain,wheat that in dark earth many days has lain;love lives again, that with the dead has been:Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.” As East…

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Apr 06, 2020 by Bishop Robert Skirving

Easter Greetings from Bishop Rob Skirving

In the ways that we would normally do, this year we will not wash one another’s feet or observe our Lord’s last supper, but we can keep our Lord’s commandment to his disciples and love one another as Jesus loved them. We will not carry large wooden crosses into our places of worship and join others in public acts of adoration, but we can each give thanks privately for Jesus’ obedience even to death on a cross, and contemplate what it means to deny ourselves, take up our own cross and follow the …

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Apr 06, 2020 by the Rev. Dr. Nancy Lee Jose

Holy Week 2020

Good morning friends, As I write to you this early morning, birds are already at the feeders. The cardinals are perched within the safety of a Live Oak, ready to swoop in after the larger black birds trimmed with scarlet are finished. We have a particular feeder for the smallest of our feather friends, which squirrels are relentless about finding a ‘way in’. And with all this beauty right outside the home office window, February 26th, Ash Wednesday seems years and years behind us. Leaving the s…

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Mar 30, 2020 by The Rev Dr Nancy Lee Jose

Palm Sunday, Holy Week and Easter - Our way through sin & redemption

Palm Sunday, Holy Week and Easter - Our way through sin & redemption The way we move through Lent and Holy Week to Easter shapes in dramatic form what we believe about sin and redemption.• Sin: The world’s brokenness, including our own• Redemption: The act of God to create us anew All too often, however, we allow ourselves to think of sin and redemption only in individualistic terms. Because of this we miss, I think, something essential about what the Good News of Easter really is about. …

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