Sunday, January 31, 2016

The Archdeacon's Book!


Two of the sermons in this book reference one of the many "treasures” strewn about my house, specifically a little brown rock about the size of a meatball. It’s kind of lumpy and hard and drab. It’s chipped and cracked. But it has a heart-shaped hole in the side.

I have come to see this little treasure as a symbol of the human-God relationship. We too are small, lumpy, often hard-headed, stiff-necked, and wounded by the inevitable challenges and suffering of human life. In comparison to God, more like a little brown rock.

But we do have a God-shaped hole in the side of our tiny, frightened, wounded and often hard human hearts. Nothing can fill that hole except God. God put it there with great love and tenderness to help us know whose we are. 

And that's Incarnation and that’s what makes it possible for us to love God and our neighbor as ourselves, to care for others—even those we don’t like or who frighten us, to reach for God and to find God, right here on earth, in each other and in creation and in the very ordinariness of our lives.

I think you’ll find that theme running in the background of many of these sermons.

Buy it here!
 

Saturday, January 16, 2016

Annual Meeting

St. Thomas' will have its Annual Meeting tomorrow, January 17, 2016 following the 10:00 Eucharist. Please join us!


Saturday, January 2, 2016

early episcopal epiphany party

Tomorrow, the folks of St. Thomas' and St. Alban's Episcopal Church will gather at St. Alban's McLean Hall from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. for our early episcopal epiphany party! Bring an hors d'oeuvre to share.


Following the party - we can join them for - Iglesia San Alban Episcopal, Misión Latino / Hispana - La Santa Eucaristía, 5:00 p.m. ¡Todos son Bienvenidos! 



We will all celebrate the Epiphany on Wednesday, January 6, 2016 with Holy Eucharist at 5:30 p.m., as will St. Alban's at their church. Hope to see you at some or all!