by Patricia Templeton | Mar 16, 2024 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, Bulletins, News
Dear friends, The service leaflet for tomorrow is attached. It’s hard to believe that one week from tomorrow is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. I’ll be sending out a lot more information about that next week, but mark your calendars for the...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 10, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Sunday morning has a language all its own, full of words that we seldom, if ever, use other times of the week. Words like repentance, righteousness, grace, incarnation. Words that I suspect we would be hard pressed to easily define. Sometimes the strange...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 4, 2024 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Last week was the first anniversary of Joe’s death. It was a day I had dreaded for weeks, really since Joseph Henry and I got back from Italy in early January at about the same time that Joe went to the hospital last year. For the last two months I...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 3, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Every year during Lent we begin our service with a version of the Ten Commandments, either the full reading of them as we did today, or a condensed version of what Jesus calls the two greatest commandments – to love God and to love your neighbor. The...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 2, 2024 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, Bulletins, News
Dear friends, You may remember that last Sunday we changed one of the hymns mid-service because, as I said at annoucements, it contained a word that is forbidden during Lent. Several of you asked me afterwards what that word was, which made me think it might be time...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 25, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Today’s service is a little bit different from what we would normally do on the Second Sunday in Lent. As you know, this week our parishioner David Abner died after a stay in hospice. David’s children preferred not to have a formal funeral for their...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 24, 2024 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, Bulletins, News
The service leaflet for tomorrow is attached. Hope to see you in the morning. e-version-Lent-2-24B-Sunday-Feb-25-2024Download Tricia
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 21, 2024 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, I am writing to let you know that our parishioner David Abner died this morning. David has been in hospice for several weeks after a fall in January. His family is not planning to have a service, but I think we as a congregation need to remember him with...