June 8Pentecost Sunday (wear red!) with Baptisms and Parish Lunch (following 10:30 am service) June 115:00 pm, Young Families Wednesday Night Picnic (BYO Dinner) June 12 6:30 pm, Anitra Coulter Recital, Sanctuary ...
Read MoreIt Ain’t Over ‘Til the Holy Spirit Sings (The Great 50 Days of Easter) Celebrant Alleluia, Christ is risen! People The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia! With these words, proclaimed in darkened churc...
Read MoreFriends in Christ, Next week we set our eyes towards Jerusalem. Since at least the 4th century, Christians have marked the week before Easter with special devotions and observances of our Lord's Passion. You may be c...
Read MoreDear Friends in Christ, In 2022, I took a group of parishioners from my curacy placement on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. While there, we made the walk to Calvary (Golgotha). This is the believed place of Jesus’...
Read MoreDear Holy People of God, We are a people worshipping and connecting with the infinite, placed in the transient, at a time of great change and massive information. How are we to thrive and not be distracted by minu...
Read MoreMy Friends in Christ, It’s an ancient Christian tradition to receive spiritual direction from monastics—from those who live the hidden, religious life. Throughout human history, seekers of something more have turn...
Read More"A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." Psalm 51 Dear Friends in Christ, We all know the pain of heartbreak, and Holy Scripture has much to say about broken hearts. You may be surprised t...
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“I can’t enjoy even a blade of grass unless I know there’s a subway handy, or a record store, or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.” – Frank O’Hara This week, we are reminded of that time Jesus t...
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"St. Thomas day, St. Thomas grey / The longest night and the shortest day / Please to remember St. Thomas’ day." Tomorrow is noteworthy because it is both the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle and the longest night...
Read More“See: I am coming very soon.” (Rev. 22:20a) This morning I turned the page in my breviary to a surprise: a reading starting at James 1:1. The Daily Office Lectionary, a two-year cycle of scripture for reading at Morn...
Read MoreFriends in Christ, "That it may please thee to make wars to cease in all the world; to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; and to bestow freedom upon all peoples, We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord." (...
Read MoreOctober has come to an end and we are rolling into November with Thanksgiving on the horizon and Christmas preparations. As a congregation we have had our Ingathering Sunday for stewardship and are doing the follow up...
Read MoreMy Friends in Christ, I've been thinking a lot about labor recently. Laboring to have this baby is at the forefront of my mind... as much as laboring in the field with you all, the fabulous people of St. Matthew's. Y...
Read MoreMy Friends in Christ, I've been thinking a lot about labor recently. Laboring to have this baby is at the forefront of my mind... as much as laboring in the field with you all, the fabulous people of St. Matthew's. Y...
Read MoreFeast of Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and Thomas Cranmer, Reformers and Martyrs, October 16th. During this past week, the church celebrated the feast day of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, bishops and martyrs, an...
Read MoreDear Friends in Christ, Our gospel lesson for this Sunday (Mark 10:17-31) has me thinking about a cartoon in the New Yorker that I saw several years ago. In it, there are two businessmen seated in comfortable arm...
Read MoreMy Friends in Christ, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." Anne of Green Gables was one of my favorite book series growing up and I often find myself returning to the pages of Avonlea when I’m s...
Read MoreMy Friends in Christ, I often hear how the youth of the church are the future of the church. They certainly are. Also, they are the present of the church. The youth of St. Matt's are already active in the life of thi...
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