Kristina DeFrancesco
Prayer for a New Day
Prayer for a New Day
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Kristina DeFrancesco
Blessing of the Animals October 3

Join us October 3 at 5pm for an outdoor Blessing of the Animals. Animals on leashes or in carriers are warmly welcome, as are stuffed animals and photos.

Blessing of the Animals October 3
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Kristina DeFrancesco
Pentecost 2 (6/6/21) – Garrett Yates

“It feels like this is something of our last Sunday of the school year, before we shift into summer mode next week with one 9am service. It’s also like we are at this societal moment of pivoting out of COVID-19 restrictions and more or less going back to normal – if there ever was such a thing. What’s been a bit disorienting for me was the radical abruptness of reopening. It was like the CDC and our civic leaders just got tired of the gray zone of semi-regulated communal life, and rather than slowly undimming the lights, they just decided to flick the switch on, and many of us, accustomed to the dark and coziness of quarantine, are squinting a little bit, trying to acclimate to the bright lights of normal.”

Pentecost 2 (6/6/21) – Garrett Yates
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Kristina DeFrancesco
Trinity Sunday (5/30/21) – Garrett Yates

“Imagine a Portrait Gallery approached you and wanted to capture your image for posterity. How would you like to be portrayed? What picture of yourself would you like others to see? And do you think that picture ties up at all with the pictures others have of you? How would you be in this portrait? Where would you be? What emotion, position, look would just capture you?”

Trinity Sunday (5/30/21) – Garrett Yates
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Kristina DeFrancesco
Day of Pentecost (5/23/21) – Garrett Yates

“Human beings take around 650,000,000 breaths in their lifetime;

About 25,000 a day. How many of those are we aware?

My Apple watch rings once an hour with a reminder to Breathe.

It’s kind of annoying:

What does it think I’ve been doing for the last hour?

It doesn’t give me a reminder to tell my heart to pump blood

Or to my intestines to digest food.

Why does it suppose I’ve neglected my breath?”

Day of Pentecost (5/23/21) – Garrett Yates

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Adult Forums: Episcopal Relief & Development, Places in the Heart, and Moth Storytelling

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November 15: Episcopal Relief & Development
November 22: Places in the Heart — Belonging (Jon Small and Mike Balin)
November 29: Places in the Heart — Hope (Tricia Crockett, Walter Colsman, and Deb Howe)
December 6: Moth Radio Hour (Gary Poisson))
December 13: Moth Radio Hour (Gary)
December 20: Places in the Heart — Light (Mary Kitses, Carole Enright, and Elizabeth Cherniak)

In the Classroom of Impermanence: Brother Curtis Almquist, SSJE

In the Classroom of Impermanence: Brother Curtis Almquist, SSJE

The year 2020 has us all registered in the same course, one we might call Impermanence. None of us thought we’d be in this class, but here we are, face to face with change, fragility, and life’s impermanence.

We are living in the midst of what has been called the Twindemic — Covid-19 and also the racial injustices that have been brought to light following the death of George Floyd. In some ways as we are moving closer to the presidential election, you may say we are shifting towards a Tridemic.

How can we survive this moment? What are the lessons this season has for us? How might our traditions of faith and spirituality help ground us in this shaken time? Our Forum series is meant to help us survive this course.

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St. Anne's Welcomes the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas

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St. Anne's Welcomes the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas

Join us online Sunday as we welcome the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas as she leads our 9am Forum with a talk titled "Rooted & Rising: Exploring Sacred Activism." She also will preach at our 10am Live-stream service. Margaret will discuss her new anthology of interfaith essays about emotional and spiritual resilience in a time of climate emergency.

You can read her bio here: https://revivingcreation.org/bio/

Photo by Tipper Gore

Adult Forum: "Mystics and Misfits"

Adult Forum: "Mystics and Misfits"

You’re probably familiar with practices of meditation and contemplation that focus on breath and attention, and that integrate the body, mind, and world. But did you know these practices have deep roots in the Christian tradition? This Sunday’s Adult Forum engaged with the lives of three Christian mystics from across time and space—Julian of Norwich, Gregory Palamas, and Howard Thurman—and asked: Where do contemplation and meditation fit into the Christian tradition?