Battle Chaps: Religious Ministry As Force Multiplier
[…] Specialist 3rd Class Sara Eshleman USS BULKELEY, At sea – “Stand by for the evening prayer.” The soft command arrives at the same time every evening. It’s a phrase Sailors […]
GC80 Morning Update: Saturday, July 9
Greetings on the second day of The Episcopal Church’s 80th General Convention in Baltimore. These daily updates from the Office of Public Affairs are morning and evening roundups of news, […]
Baptismal Covenant and Commitment
[…] service. By the twentieth century, though, baptism was rarely celebrated in the context of a daily office, and the drafting committee for the 1979 prayer book envisioned the revised rite […]
A Real Joy, Advent 1 (A) – 2022
[…] to be raptured away and not have to face Christ’s return, the early Church prayed daily “thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” […]
Episcopal Church leaders respond to gun violence in Uvalde
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and other church leaders offered prayerful and practical responses to the May 24, 2022, mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Listen with Our Hearts, Palm Sunday (A) – 2002
[…] is pictured as washing his hands of the whole thing. A man who routinely, even daily, ordered people to death without a second thought is pictured as hesitant and subject […]
Bulletin Insert: Gifts to the Church by Episcopal Convents and Monasteries – St. Gregory’s Abbey of Three Rivers, Mich. – August 21, 2022
Contemplative prayer can be defined briefly as: quietly resting in the presence of God without use of words. At St. Gregory’s, time is specifically set aside each day for this […]
Proper 22C – Grace Cathedral
[…] What moves us from lament to gratitude and hope? Sometimes it’s just the discipline of daily faithful living – persistence, and keeping on keeping on. That’s what Jesus points to […]
Bible Study: Pentecost 9 (B) – July 21, 2024
[…] in our relationships with the Other and those strangers we might interact with in our daily lives? Ephesians 2:11-22 This portion of Ephesians appointed for Proper 11 strikes the heart […]
Leaders to join Presiding Bishop Michael Curry for Holding on to Hope: A National Service for Healing and Wholeness
[…] pandemic and racial reckoning, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will call Americans together for a live-streamed prayer service from Washington National Cathedral. The Holding on to Hope service will be held […]
Will We Accept God’s Love?, Proper 25 (C) – 2016
A prayer by Jacqueline Bergan and S Marie Schwann says, “Lord my God, when Your loved spilled over into creation You thought of me. I am from love, of love, […]
Bible Study: Pentecost 19 (B) – September 29, 2024
[…] suffering, and to praise God when we are rejoicing. It goes on to discuss in-depth prayers for healing and the anointing of the sick. This is the primary passage that […]
May Your Heart Live for Ever!, Easter 5 (B) – April 28, 2024
[…] will have their desires met. There is no reason here to distinguish between hunger for daily bread and hunger for spiritual bread, for God supplies them both. God supplies to […]
Feast of Monnica
Monnica is remembered as a saint mostly because of the fervency of her prayer. She had a challenging family life. Both husband and son at various times led remarkably dissolute […]
The Final Advent of God, Advent 1 (C) – 2003
[…] And so it was with Zechariah. In our second reading, the apostle Paul lifts a prayer for the Christians in Thessalonica. He hears of their concerns for some of their […]
Observe Good Friday, Celebrate Easter Sunday with liturgical programming from The Episcopal Church
[…] Episcopal Church in New York City, Stations of the Cross is the penitential reenacting with prayers and reflections of Jesus Christ”s way to the cross on Calvary. At 11 am […]
AdventWord 2019: 17. Pray
[…] soon after arriving, Luz Maria, a friend from Colombia, approached me with a request for prayer for her presentation at this conference as she was anxious about it. A mutual […]
Responding to Tragedy
[…] re-posting this from the EpiscoYouth blog that is kept by my colleague, Bronwyn Skov. My prayers go out to everyone impacted by this tragedy and I will do everything I […]
Empowering Episcopalians and the next generation to care for creation
[…] earth, our island home” when talking about stewardship of the planet. It comes from Eucharistic Prayer C, found in the Book of Common Prayer. A little further down the page, […]
Resources for Advent
[…] the Presbyterian Church, and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. You can sign up to receive their daily devotion reminders. http://www.d365.org SSJE Society of Saint John the Evangelist has developed a Digital […]