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Calendar and Archives

The Liturgical Calendar
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Day |
2007 - 08 |
2008 - 09 |
In the Courtyard |
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Advent |
First Sunday of Advent |
Dec 2, 2007 |
Nov 30, 2008 |
Prayers of the People for
Advent
Meditation
for Advent
Prayer for
Advent |
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Christmas |
Christmas Day |
Dec 25, 2007 |
Dec 25, 2008 |
Litany for
Christmas
If Mary was a virgin... |
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Epiphany |
The Epiphany |
Jan 6, 2008 |
Jan 6, 2009 |
Reading: A Story for Epiphany
Prayers
of the People for Epiphany
Meditation for Epiphany
Prayer for
Epiphanies |
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Lent |
Ash Wednesday |
Feb 6, 2008 |
Feb 25, 2009 |
Prayers of the People for Lent
Lenten Longing
Meditation for Lent
Stations of the
Cross
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Easter |
Easter Day |
Mar 23, 2008 |
Apr 12, 2009 |
Prayer for Holy Week
Homily for Wed. in Holy Week
Homily for Maundy
Thursday
Prayers of the People for Easter Season
Prayers for Easter Season
An Image for Easter Season
Homily for the Fourth
Sunday of Easter |
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Ascension Day |
May 1, 2008 |
May 21, 2009 |
Prayers of the People for
The Ascension |
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Green |
The Day of Pentecost |
May 11, 2008 |
May 31, 2009 |
Meditation for the Green
Season |
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Trinity Sunday |
May 18, 2008 |
Jun 7, 2009 |
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The Transfiguration |
Aug 6, 2008 |
Aug 6, 2009 |
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All Saints Day |
Nov 1, 2007 |
Nov 1, 2009 |
Meditation for All Saints Day |
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All Souls Day |
Nov 2, 2008 |
Nov 2, 2009 |
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Prayers of the People for God's Spirit
Homily for the
22nd Sunday after Pentecost |
Parish Life
August 2007 --
Stewardship -- Make 'Em
Laugh! -- It’s mid-summer. At churches across the land,
Stewardship Committee Chairs are emerging from their
hideaways, scouting around for new committee members,
calling preliminary meetings, and peering ahead to the
Fall Campaign.
more..
Homilies and Sermons
April 2008 --
Homily for the 7th
Sunday after Pentecost -- “Welcome” --
Delivered at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Port Townsend,
Washington, on June 29, 2008
more..
April 2008 --
Homily for the Fourth
Sunday of Easter -- “A Picture of Abundant
Life” --
Delivered at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Port Townsend,
Washington, on April 13, 2008
more..
March 2008 --
Homily for Maundy Thursday
-- "A Love Story" -- Delivered at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,
Port Townsend, Washington on March 20, 2008. more..
January 2008 -- “Feet and
Pee — Stories of Attention and Change” --
Delivered at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Port
Townsend, Washington on January 13, 2008.
more..
October 2007 --
Homily for the 22nd Sunday
after Pentecost -- “Out of the Boomerang Trap”
-- Delivered at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Port Townsend,
Washington on October 28, 2007.
more..
April 2007 --
Homily for Wednesday in Holy
Week --
“A Love That Saves” -- Delivered at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Port Townsend,
Washington on April 4, 2007. more..
Published on Other Sites
May 2007
--
"With
Apologies to Dana Carvey"
Ruminations on church ladies -- fanciful, real, and
future -- posted on
Episcopal Life Online.
December
2007
-- Excerpt from
Sacred
Attention --
I met my friend Sam at
college, back in the early seventies. Sam had been
adopted as an infant in a "blind" adoption, so he grew
up knowing nothing about his genetic parents...
--
posted on
DailyOM
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Nurturing
Mind Body and Spirit.
Margaret's Bench
June 2008 --
Three separate times, a love without bounds showed
itself to me so that I looked and paid attention, so
that I could see.
more...
May 2008 --
Last December, in an effort to bring abundant life into
our home, David and I got a puppy. We named him Bingo.
If abundant life involves sleep deprivation and
obsessive interest in someone else’s bathroom habits,
then Bingo brought it, right away.
more...
April 2008 --
Every Sunday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Port
Townsend, we stand and say the Nicene Creed together. It
is my least favorite part of the service.
more...
March 2008 --
"“These are the first two poems I’ve ever written
in my life,” said Jeff. As the class instructor, I was
glad to hear both surprise and pleasure in his voice.
more...
February 2008 --
"Today I'm going to talk about feet and pee, in stories
of attention and change..." — From a talk delivered at
the Quimper Universalist Unitarian Fellowship's Sunday
services, January 13, 2008.
more...
January 2008 --
Our first dog, Jackie, was a tri-color basset hound
named in honor of Jack Benny, one of David’s all-time
favorite show biz personalities...
more...
December 2007 --
Happy birthday to the Courtyard—one year old this
month...
more...
November 2007 --
I’m deeply attached to my “To Do” list. How would I live
without it? The tasks swirl around me, and at times I’m
frozen, drowning in a sea of possibilities. I need to
write them down, simply to choose what to do next. And
so the trap quietly closes...
more...
October 2007 --
We adopted Katie from the local animal shelter about
four years ago, just before Thanksgiving in 2003. The
folks at the pound had the phone number of her former
owners, and before signing the papers, I gave them a
call. It was an awkward conversation...
more...
September 2007 --
Three days after my mystical experience in the Safeway
parking lot — three days after I was given a revelation
of the essential, fundamental love-ableness built into
all human beings — I walked into a frightening and
infuriating demonstration of its opposite...
more...
July/August 2007 --
On an October afternoon, Tom Waits’ gravelly voice,
flamboyant lyrics, and diamond revelations in the grit
of city street life felt like perfect accompaniment to
the fir trees, horse barns, and small-town neighborhoods
that I passed in my car...
more...
June 2007 --
You know what drives me nuts about the recent spate of
books begging me to find salvation and give up religion
before it’s too late? Books arguing not only that God
doesn’t exist, but that religion is a greater threat to
humanity than avian flu and reality TV combined?
more...
May 2007 --
This month is the 10-year anniversary of my confirmation
in the Episcopal Church. I had confirmed my baptismal
vows once before, in the Evangelical United Brethren
Church, when I was about 12 years old. Then a few years
later, I took it back.
more...
April 2007 --
It’s April, and the dandelions are popping out
everywhere, shamelessly yellow. If dandelions could
write their own creation story, I wonder if the story
would say that the first dandelion was made in the image
of God.
more...
March 2007 --
The Stations of the Cross didn’t play much part in my
Protestant upbringing. I remember some hair-raising
sermons on the crucifixion itself, but I don’t remember
spending much time on the stages of the journey from the
trial to the tomb, which is what the Stations are all
about.
more...
February 2007 --
The proposal to build a courtyard at my home parish of
St. Paul’s called for sand-set pavers to be laid in the
area between the church building and the parish hall,
and for the pattern of a labyrinth to be inlaid in the
paved floor. Diane, a parish artist, took charge of
designing and making the labyrinth's rosette center.
more...
January 2007 --
In the commercial world, the Christmas season has a long
youth and a short old-age: born in mid-autumn, weaned
the day after Thanksgiving, and dead by the close of the
New Year's Eve sales. In the church calendar, Christmas
is the shortest season of the year.
more...
December 2006 -- I’ve been a writer ever since I could read, and I’ve been a
thief ever since I could write.
In the first grade, I was publicly unmasked as a plagiarist
during show and tell when I tried to pass off a story from Highlights magazine as my own.
more...
Lectio + Haiku
June 2008 -- Psalm 131:
1-3 O LORD, I am not proud; I have no haughty
looks. I do not occupy myself with great matters, or
with things that are too hard for me.
more...
May 2008 -- From Psalms
for Troubled Times: Prayers of Hope and Challenge by
Barbara Gibson. Psalm 3 “Help from Sophia”
O Wisdom, how many are my doubts! My cynical thoughts
disturb me, saying “There is no hope for the world.”
more...
April 2008 -- Psalm
148:1-14 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD
from the heavens; praise him in the heights!
more...
March 2008 -- Psalm 116:
1-4; 6-8 I love the LORD, because he has heard my
voice and my supplications.
more...
February 2008 --
HURRY TO THE SOURCE OF LIFE by Rumi, the 13th Century
Sufi mystic poet. How could the soul not take
flight / When from the glorious Presence / A soft call
flows sweet as honey, comes right up to her / And
whispers, “Rise up now, come away.”
more...
January 2008 --
Isaiah 35:1-8 The wilderness and the dry land shall be
glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the
crocus it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy
and singing...
more...
December 2007 --
James 5:7-8 Be patient, therefore, beloved, until
the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the
precious crop from the earth, being patient with it
until it receives the early and the late rains...
more...
November 2007 --
Ecclesiastes 2:24-25, 3:1-8 There is nothing
better for mortals than to eat and drink, and find
enjoyment in their toil... For everything there is
a season, and a time for every matter under heaven...
more...
October 2007 -- Psalm 121
I lift up my eyes to the hills -- from where will my
help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven
and earth...
more...
September 2007 -- In this month's
passage, Paul riffs on the interdependence of
all people. I Corinthians
12:13b–22, 24–26 We were all made to drink
of one Spirit...
more...
August 2007 -- Last month,
Wisdom told about being present with God at the creation
of the cosmos. For this month, I chose a variety of
verses taken from the same book. Selected Proverbs
Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart
reflects another. ...
more...
July 2007 -- Proverbs
8:1-4; 22-31 Does not wisdom call, and does not
understanding raise her voice? On the heights, beside
the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand...
more...
June 2007 --
On this page last month, the Bride sang to her
Bridegroom. For the month of weddings, it seems only
fair to let the Bridegroom respond. Song of Solomon 4:
1-7, 9 How beautiful you are, my love, how very
beautiful...
more...
May 2007 --
For the lusty month of May, a portion of Solomon’s Song
of Songs. Song of Solomon 2: 8-17 The voice
of my beloved! Look, he comes, leaping upon the
mountains...
more...
April 2007 --
A passage with the promise that after famine comes
abundance. Joel 2: 21 - 29 Do not fear, O
soil; be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great
things!
more...
March 2007 --
Lent is a season for coming to terms with who we really
are. Wisdom of Solomon 7: 1-6 I also am mortal,
like everyone else, a descendant of the first-formed
child of earth;
more...
February 2007 --
Winter turns toward spring, and the heart of the
psalmist turns toward God.
Psalm 42 : 1- 7 As the deer longs for the
water-brooks, so longs my soul for you, O God.
more...
January 2007 --
For the last days of the Christmas season and the first
weeks of Epiphany, a song of intimacy and awe.
Psalm 139 : 1- 8 O LORD, you have searched
me and known me.
more...
December 2006 --
For the month of Advent and Christmas,
a song of remembrance and
hope. Psalm 126 : 1-6
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dream.
more...
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