Archive for May, 2020
May 30, 2020: The Language of the Unheard
Dear People of St. Paul’s, I write to you on the eve of Pentecost, the day we remember and celebrate the release of spiritual power into the lives of those who followed Jesus. It was a moment of transformative awareness that all Jesus had been and done and said and promised was IN THEM as […]
Continue Reading“The Great Rummage Sale” by Mother Louise Kalemkerian | May 27, 2020
Phyllis Tickle, author and academic, in her 2008 book The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why, wrote that every 500 years the Church goes through a “rummage sale” and cleans out the old forms of spirituality, replacing them with new ones. She cites Constantine in the late 4th century; the Great Schism of […]
Continue Reading“Hitting the Wall” by Father Daniel Simons | May 20, 2020
This past week I noticed that in many of my conversations around the parish, and in the wider community, people were describing a new level of fatigue, or crankiness, or anxiety, or frustration. As I listened, I looked inward and found the same within myself. It reminded me of what endurance sports language calls “hitting […]
Continue ReadingMay 1, 2020
Dear People of St. Paul’s, I’m writing to you today looking out at the river and at the woods beyond it, where the buds are just beginning to pop. I’ve watched this procession of spring come up from the Norwalk coast — first in the St. Paul’s churchyard, then creeping up the Newtown turnpike mile […]
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