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on December 24, 2016

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Holy Trinity; Valley Stream

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A guide to Louisiana pronunciation

My prayers this morning are centered on my homeland. Louisiana braces once again for the landfall of a powerful hurricane - this time nearly three years to the day after the Hurricane Katrina debacle. I've been in hurricanes. To be honest, they can be kind of fun. If you're in a place where it is safe to not evacuate, you hunker down with your family and friends. After the power goes out you cook all the food in the freezer to try to keep it from spoiling. You sit up all night watching battery powered televisions and listening to battery powered radios to get the most up-to-date information possible. But it is decidedly more difficult to be sitting in New Jersey and watching it all unfold from afar. It is difficult to be consumed with worry as you see those places that are so familiar, and think about the people that you love who inhabit them, and to not know what's happening. Perhaps most difficult, however, is listening to news anchors in New York trying to

Catholic lite?

A newsletter message written for St. David's Episcopal Church, Kinnlon, NJ Dear Friends, One of the longest-running jokes about the differences between the Episcopal Church and the Roman Catholic Church says, simply, that the Episcopal branch of the catholic faith is “Catholic Lite”. This came to mind again, last month, as I was preparing to mark our recognition of new members in the liturgy. Growing up in the United Methodist Church, there was a time at the end of every Sunday service when people would be invited to join the church, and to proclaim a commitment to membership. In that liturgical act, new members would be asked to pledge to support the church with their “prayers, presence, gifts, and service”. I thought about that as I was planning to celebrate our own new members: what does membership mean in the Episcopal Church? As a reminder, for the liturgy, this is what I came up with: “in the Episcopal Church we take our faith and our membership in the c

An Ascension Day Anthem

"Up, up, up", indeed! With special thanks to our friends in the theatre - where Ascension happens EVERY day!

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