John Shea, in his book Starlight: Beholding the Christmas Miracle All Year Long, tells a story about being at a Christmas party and realizing that it is impossible to return to the world as we know it after casually wandering up to the mantel and seeing the nativity scene. Knowing that the Word became flesh […]Read more “God In Us Made Manifest”
Author: Colin Collette
December 6, 2020
Dear Friends, Earlier this week, I read a post on Facebook that went something like this: “Does anyone else feel the urge to call the radio stations that are playing ‘songs of the season’ and ask, “Where are the Advent songs?’” My first impulse was to immediately hit “like” and launch my usual tirade about no […]Read more “December 6, 2020”
What Will It Take?
In the past few weeks I have found myself reflecting on two seemingly disparate statements intended, I think, to rally the troops as we once again ramp up the fight against this pandemic. The first of the two appeared last spring very early in our journey with COVID, simply “# in this together.” I remember, […]Read more “What Will It Take?”
Pass it, Share it, Give it Away
(Sermon recorded in the Parish Hall among thousands of paper bags used on Tuesday’s RCS pantry) Here, in this all too familiar space, best known to me as the place where I regularly meet the nine o’clock choir members to warm up and rehearse for service, the place where we catch up and connect during […]Read more “Pass it, Share it, Give it Away”
Presentation of Our Lord
For me as a liturgy nerd, it is so exciting that the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, this year, falls on a Sunday, and in the grand scheme of all things liturgical, supplants the observation of the 4th Sunday after the Epiphany. In days past this feast was the close of the Christmas […]Read more “Presentation of Our Lord”
The Gift is God with Us
Last Sunday after seven weeks of Advent and a few extremely busy few weeks, morning services complete and a lovely afternoon prayer service with our seniors at the Breakers, my mind and heart were now resolutely set on the turn to Bethlehem, this sermon, and finally the most dreaded part of my Christmas preparations…. the […]Read more “The Gift is God with Us”