I’m sitting here on Thursday morning having my fourth, fifth cup of coffee… who am I kidding? I’ve drunk essentially the entire pot of coffee and its only 8:00am. I was sitting and knitting, while drinking way too much coffee, and thinking about the word “forbearance.” It’s a great word for right now. We don’t […]
If your past few weeks have been anything like mine, daily life has changed dramatically! My typically busy schedule has transitioned to long, slow days of communicating online and over the phone, all while wondering what the future will bring for my family and the world. Rushed lunch packing and last-minute dinners have given way
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Glad Tidings
Dear friends, The spread of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, continues in North Carolina, and especially here in Wake County. The Bishops of the Diocese of North Carolina have issued some very helpful guidance and directives as to how we continue to do church together during this anxious time, remembering especially those
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Are you doing anything for Lent? Taking something on? Giving something up? It takes me forever to decide what I’m going to do, and sometimes I have to try a few different options to see what actually sticks. Some years, my Lenten practice doesn’t begin in earnest until the second or even third week of
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From the Clergy
There are so many options for daily Lenten reflections to help your personal practice of Lent. Here are a few choices to consider. Lent Madness This is a fun way to learn about the amazing saints that came before us. 32 saints are placed into a tournament-like single elimination bracket. You vote online until a
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From the Clergy
Lenten Teaching Series How to have a Holy Lent—Sundays at 9:30 beginning March 1 “I invite you, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on Gods holy Word.” We hear these words every Ash Wednesday,
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From the Clergy
Whenever I read the passage from Isaiah 58, in the lectionary for this coming Sunday, I want to burst into song with “And then, then shall your light break forth like dawn,” the concluding chorus of Felix Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah. It exuberantly proclaims the theme of light that we celebrate throughout Epiphany. At Christ Church,
February 2, 2020 – The day when Baby Jesus comes out of the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami at the end of the Super Bowl, and if he sees his shadow in the stadium lights, there will be another six weeks until Lent starts. Just kidding. It is interesting though, that big church and cultural
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The total raised for the Ocracoke Hurricane Relief fund from the Silent Auction at Nativity in December is $4,310.00 – money that has been donated to the relief efforts at Ocracoke. Bill and Sharon Conley visited Ocracoke just after Christmas; here is Sharon’s description of what they saw: After Christmas, Bill and I and two
Invitation or Command? This Sunday’s gospel reading is the same story of the calling of Andrew and Peter that we heard last Sunday from the Gospel of John, but this week the story comes from the Gospel of Matthew. It includes the infamous phrase, “Follow me and I will make you disciples of men.” (people
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