Dear People of Christ Church, This week, I’m all aflutter about the decision in my home state of Pennsylvania to allow same sex marriage. Of course, it’s been the law in my chosen state for ten years (we moved here
Dear People of Christ Church, This week, I’m all aflutter about the decision in my home state of Pennsylvania to allow same sex marriage. Of course, it’s been the law in my chosen state for ten years (we moved here
Dear People of Christ Church, This week in our Episcopal Church class I was reminded, as always when I pay attention, how very grateful I am to be part of the Anglican Tradition. Every church has something wonderful about it-the
Dear People of Christ Church, I hope to see a lot of you this week-tomorrow, the art show, Saturday, the release of our own Gene Burkart’s posthumous work of collected essays (see below), and Sunday at the Mother’s Day Walk.
Dear People of Christ Church, Blessings on your continued celebration of Easter! We had a wonderful celebration of Holy Week and Easter at Christ Church-our attendance for our Holy Week services keep growing, and this Palm Sunday was one of
Rev. Sara’s piece in the Waltham News Tribune, April 18, 2014 Forty (or so) days ago, I wrote in this space about Ash Wednesday-for Christians, the beginning of a long Lenten journey culminating in the holy days of Maundy Thursday,
By now, you’ve heard my pitch about why you should do Holy Week, so this year I’m not going to give it. The fact is, I don’t know why you should do Holy Week. I’m thinking about why these stories
This week, we’re going back in the archives to a piece written by parishioner Marcia Luce in Lent 2011. Marcia died in November but I think she would be OK with us spending some more time with this! With Palm
This week in our Tuesday 6:00 group, we had a conversation about Jesus. We were kind of all over the place. We were responding to this quote from our book, The Restoration Project: If you were to imagine that Jesus
What is Holy Week? Holy week is the week between Palm Sunday and Easter. It begins with Maundy Thursday, continues on Good Friday, and culminates in the Great Vigil of Easter on Saturday Night. These are sometimes called by the
A week later, I’m still mentally reeling a little in the wake of the murder of Waltham High student Tyler Zanco last week. I didn’t know him or his family, but something about the murder of a teenager-a child, really-feels