by CEC Communications | Mar 10, 2019 | Liturgical Calendar, Spirituality, Uncategorized
You are invited to take a deeper look at the lessons from the liturgy of the day, on Sundays and Holy Days in Lent. Clergy and lay leaders have prepared this resource especially for you as a gift from the Center for Spirituality at Christ Church. The brief reflections...
by CEC Communications | Dec 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
None of us like being shouted at. When they were younger my children would sometimes start texting in all uppercase. This is shouting. “Turn the caps lock off or I am going away,” I would say. A few weeks ago, we were talking in the office about whether the pronouns...
by CEC Communications | Dec 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
If we were saying this line to a friend we would say, “Come on, let’s go and adore Him!” Well, we probably would not use “adore” at all but we will get to that next week. Let’s is an invitation or, sometimes, a command. Let’s grab some lunch; let’s see what is going...
by CEC Communications | Nov 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Advent is almost upon us. We move from the celebration of Christ the King to the journey to Christmas. From splendor to a dust road. “O Come let us Adore Him” are familiar words at Christmas. We can imagine the visitors who would greet Jesus talking and...
by CEC Communications | Nov 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
I have a few favorite Saints and one of them is Hilda of Whitby who we celebrate this week. She founded some monasteries on the Northeast Coast of England in the seventh century. Not very promising, you might think. Except that this was one of the golden ages of...
by CEC Communications | Nov 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
One of my real wake-up moments in life (and I have mentioned this before so please bear with me) was the day I was walking through London, feeling defeated by life when I saw a blade of grass poking up in the space between two paving stones. In the middle of all of...
