Love is not blind to flaws, but kindles tender mercies around those flaws. Love puts its focus on what we are, rather than what we are not. Love is unconditional. It gives and gives…and, then it gives some more. To make rules for love would be to dilute it. Love is love, it is not [...]
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God’s Irrevocable Love Leave a comment
Defying Explanations… Leave a comment
This morning’s Gospel Reading is another popular story that we all learned in Sunday School, or on which we’ve heard countless sermons. It’s called “The Feeding of the Five Thousand”, or “The Feeding of the Multitudes.” According to the story, by this time in his ministry, Jesus has built up a large following. He’s become [...]
The Mustard Seeds Within… Leave a comment
Our Gospel passage this morning is an interesting one. Biblical scholars feel that it’s sort of a collection of miscellaneous teachings and parables that had been attributed to Jesus. By the time Matthew wrote his gospel, these teachings had become part of the lore surrounding Jesus. Some of them may be authentic, and some of them not. But [...]
Music Notes for 24 July, 2011 2 comments
We process a lot here at Epiphany. At every service the choir and acolytes and clergy process in and process out. In Lent we chant the Great Litany while processing round and round inside the church. On Palm Sunday we process with blessed palms from the churchyard into the sanctuary. On Rogation Sunday we “beat the [...]
Music Notes 17 July, 2011 Leave a comment
Our church has a graceful bell tower attached to the entrance of the Parish House. It supports one tolling bell, with the pitch of C Sharp. Continuing the series of preludes taken from Henry Mulet’s “Esquisses Byzantine,” “Byzantine Sketches,” today’s is “Campanile,” “Bell Tower.” There are many bells in the tower of Sacré Coeur in Paris, [...]
A lovely luncheon in the shade at St. Luke’s Leave a comment
After our Colonial Anglican Church worship experience, we gathered under the shade trees for an authentic after-church picnic! Gathering for a meal after worship is historically accurate! However, our picnic menu included items the colonists would not have known, like soda, ice cubes, salads, potato chips, humus, fried chicken, folding chairs, mosquito repellent and paper plates! The grounds [...]
Worship with the 1559 Book of Common Prayer Leave a comment
The sign in front of Historic St. Luke’s Church said “1559 Church Service 11:00 a.m.” And a few people beyond the Epiphany faithful joined us for a dip into Colonial Anglican church history! Sunday, June 26th, Church of the Epiphany made its semi-annual trip out to St. Luke’s, on the outskirts of Smithfield, for an almost authentic [...]
Pilgrimage to Historic St. Luke’s Leave a comment
On Sunday, June 26th, the members of the Church of the Epiphany travelled out to Smithfield, VA to worship at Historic St. Luke’s. Originally built in 1632, the chapel is the oldest remaining Gothic structure in the country. Among the Gothic features are buttresses, stepped gables, brick-traceried windows, and the medieval tie-beam timber interior roof structure. [...]
Music Notes for 10 July, 2011 Leave a comment
The preludes for this morning and the next two Sundays are parts of “Esquisses Byzantines,” “Byzantine Sketches” by Henri Mulet. He was organist at the fantastic shrine in Paris honoring the Blessed Sacrament, The Consecrated Eucharist Bread, always in exposition for adoration by the faithful. Called Sacré Coeur, Sacred Heart (of Jesus), the shrine is [...]
The gold leaf outline… Leave a comment
One of the themes that weaves its way through our readings has to do with the Kingdom of God. It’s subtle, but it’s there – especially in our Psalms. And this being the 4th of July weekend, the theme of “The Kingdom of God” also strangely weaves its way through most of our hymns with [...]
