We call to you, O God. Hear our prayers for the Church. Set us upon the sure foundation of your loving kindness. Open wide our hearts to accept your grace. Bless Michael, our presiding bishop; Melissa and Brian, our bishops; Phil, our bishop-elect; and Joseph, our vicar. We pray for the Church of England; and […]
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Jesus has been in the boat.We miss thatas we drop in to the story today,picking up where we left offlast week.Jesus has been in the boatsince the beginning of chapter 3.This floating pulpit –a way to get spacefrom the mobs who want to touchor get close like a toddler –now becomes a vessel.As Mark is
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God who makes all things new, revitalize your church, we pray. Bless Michael, our presiding bishop; Melissa and Brian, our bishops; Phil, our bishop-elect; and Joseph our priest. We pray for the Anglican Church of Chile; and for the faith communities of St. Augustine’s in-the-Woods, Freeland; and St. Philip’s, Marysville. We pray also for the
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In the name of Godin whom we live and moveand have our being.As we settle in to the Season after PentecostOrdinary Time,where the Sundays are ordinalthe nth Sunday after Pentecostwe’re moving into a mostly continuousreading of Mark’s gospel.I’ll change the banners this week.Today we have two illustrationsfor the world Jesus has come to usher in.“The
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We pray for the church, O God. In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we pray for the Province of the Anglican Church of the Congo. In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, we pray for our own faith community of St. Hilda St. Patrick, Edmonds; and we acknowledge that we reside on the ancestral lands of
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I don’t know about you, but I often find that scripture can seem baffling and strange to my modern ears. in this Mark passage, for example, there’s all this talk of Satan and how he seems to be controlling Jesus. And what’s this about Jesus’ family? We don’t often hear about them, so why are
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God who calls your servants, we pray for our priest, Joseph; our Bishops, Melissa and Brian; Phil, our Bishop-Elect; and Michael, our presiding Bishop. In the Anglican Communion, we pray for the Anglican Church of Central America. In the Diocese of Olympia, we pray for St. Aiden’s, Camano Island; and Transfiguration, Darrington. Lord of the
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