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Summer Schedule: Sunday Eucharist: 7:45 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.

Regular Service Schedule resumes on Sunday, September 12, 2010

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Church Office Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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Sunday Eucharist

September 5, 2010

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Proper 18

7:45 a.m. Holy Eucharist

Nursery Care in Room # 2: 9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

10:00 a.m. HOLY EUCHARIST

This Sunday's Readings

Jeremiah 18:1-11
Psalm 139:1-5, 13-17
or
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
Psalm 1

Philemon 1-21
Luke 14:25-33

Wednesday

10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
and Healing Service

   
 

One who is content with what he has, and who accepts the fact that he inevitably misses very much in life, is far better off than one who has much more but who worries about all he may be missing. For we cannot make the best of what we are, if our hearts are always divided between what we are and what we are not. (By Thomas Merton in “No Man Is An Island” [New York: Harvest Book, 1983], p. 127)

You will find more contemplative living resources here: http://www.mertoninstitute.org/

 

 

Mercy is what God does for us. Mercy discounts the economic sense of love and faith and care for a person and lives out of a divine sense of love instead. Mercy gives a human being who does not “deserve” love, love. And why? Because, the Scriptures answer, God knows of what we are made... Mercy is the trait of those who realize their own weakness enough to be kind to those who are struggling with theirs. It is, as well, the measure of the God-life in us...

The mercy we show to others is what assures us that we do not need to worry about being perfect ourselves. All we really need to do is to make the effort to be the best we can be, knowing we will often fail. Then, the mercy of others, the mercy of God is certain for us, as well. “The only thing we can offer to God of value,” St. Catherine of Siena said, “is to give our love to people as unworthy of it as we are of God’s love.”

–from God’s Tender Mercy: Reflections on Forgiveness by Joan Chittister (Twenty-Third Publications)
 

 

explorefaith.org: Spiritual guidance for anyone seeking a path to God


Our goodness or our faith cannot insulate us from the common experiences of life. Tragic events come into our lives regardless of who we are. And they sometimes strike so suddenly.

Our resources will be adequate if in the midst of the storms we affirm who we are, remember what we are here to do and claim the presence of the One who never leaves us. 

by Brooks Ramsey, read more HERE.