Meditations 5/9

Lenten Meditation for Today: Good Friday

Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday Thursday, April 6th 5:00 p.m. Seder meal in New Brick 7:00 p.m. Eucharist in New Brick, with foot-washing and stripping...

Lenten Meditation for Today: St. Francis Brings Peace at Gubbio

A story taken and edited from the “Life of St. Francis” at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in San Francisco As Francis’...

Lenten Meditation for Today: Casting Nets

Angling For the right Expression As I write Is like Fishing Some words Glide gently Into my mind Others slip Away, And there are those...

Lenten Meditation for Today: How the Light Comes

I cannot tell you how the light comes. What I know is that it is more ancient than imagining. That it travels across an astounding...

The Lord's Prayer

☀Midway through our "Meditations on the Passion" service yesterday, the early evening sunlight started slowly filtering through the New...

Lenten Meditation for Today: Before the Throne of God Above

I have a strong, a perfect plea, A great High Priest whose name is love Who ever lives and pleads for me. My name is graven on His Hands,...

What Happens in Holy Week?

What Happens in Holy Week? by Mother Marcia Christians celebrated the last week of Jesus' life as a repeating time of remembering, even...

Saturday Song: At the Cross (Love Ran Red)

On weekdays during the season of Lent, we post daily meditations on our website, and on Saturdays, we include a piece of music, as well....

Lenten Meditation for Today: More Questions Than Answers… A Conversation With God

I’m an engineer by training, a math teacher by trade…I like certainty. It just feels better when life makes sense. When A causes B, which...

Lenten Meditation for Today: Be an Instrument of God's Peace

Be an Instrument of God’s Peace: Reflections from a Year of Helping an Afghan Refugee Family While it’s now more than a year since I...

Lenten Meditation for Today: Rules for Living

From one of my most favorite mystery writers, Louise Penny. Her main character is Surete, an inspector with the Quebec police. Surete...

Lenten Meditation for Today: Music as an Instrument of God’s Peace

Music has always been an anchor in my life. Like my church. My family. My friends. Music brings me comfort when grieving or worrying. ...

Saturday Song: The Blessing

On weekdays during the season of Lent, we post daily meditations on our website, and on Saturdays, we include a piece of music, as well....

Lenten Meditation for Today: Footprints in the Sand

One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For...

Lenten Meditation: Guided toward Excellence

Presbyterian author and theologian Eugene Peterson reflects upon God’s challenging questions to the prophet Jeremiah at a pivotal point...

Lenten Meditation for Today: The Bridge Builder

An old man going a lone highway, Came, at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and deep and wide, The old man crossed in the...

Lenten Meditation for Today: Being Aware of Being Spared

Being Aware of Being Spared: A Chance to Savor God’s Creation and Your Place in It The wake-up call for me was literally a wake-up call....

Saturday Song: Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)

On weekdays during the season of Lent, we post daily meditations on our website, and on Saturdays, we include a piece of music, as well....

:Lenten Meditation for Today: Fraternity

Fraternity by William Henry Dawson Fraternity is that feeling toward mankind— Without regard to rank, or wealth, or place— Which makes a...

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