Sunday 9.13.20 @ 9:00 AM Dear St. Margaret’s Family, Mother Laura, the Vestry and I invite you to tune in to a recorded service of Holy Eucharist tomorrow from St. Margaret’s Sanctuary. (Sunday at 9:00 AM) Our Director of Music, Julius Sarkozy, has been instrumental in making this a reality by handling the recording of the […]
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St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Emmaus, PA Reflections on The Season of Pentecost The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, August 30, 2020 By Rev. Jane Bender Dear St. Margaret’s Family, This week’s Epistle is from St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans, Chapter 12:9-21. In these brief verses are a series of rapid-fire exhortations that go by so
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An Image of FORGIVENESS for the Ages captured in a Rembrandt Painting. The Return of the Prodigal Son is an oil painting by Rembrandt. It is among the Dutch master’s final works, likely completed within two years of his death in 1669. Depicting the moment of the prodigal son‘s return to his father in the Biblical parable, it is
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St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Emmaus, PA Reflections on The Season of Pentecost The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, August 16, 2020 By Rev. Jane Bender Dear St. Margaret’s Family, Greetings to you all and I hope this letter finds you well! As you may have noticed, I usually write my reflection message about the Gospel Reading
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St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Emmaus, PA Reflections on The Season of Pentecost The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, August 9, 2020 By Rev. Jane Bender Dear St. Margaret’s Family, Our gospel reading this week from Matthew tells the very familiar story of Jesus’ miraculous walking on water. This story of Jesus walking on the Sea of
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VESTRY LEADERSHIP As you are aware from previous news, Connie Allport needed to relinquish the role of Senior Warden a few weeks ago due to multiple family commitments. Thankfully, as Sr. Warden, Emerita, she has graciously chosen to remain on Vestry as a working member. We cherish her continuing work, leadership, dedication, and “who” she
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St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Emmaus, PA Reflections on The Season of Pentecost The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, July 26, 2020 By Rev. Jane Bender Dear St. Margaret’s Family, Greetings to you all and I hope this letter finds you well! This week’s Gospel from Matthew has a series of parables that offer us insights into
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St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Emmaus, PA Reflections on The Season of Pentecost The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, July 19, 2020 By Rev. Jane Bender Dear St. Margaret’s Family, Greetings to you all and I hope this letter finds you well! Mo. Laura, Kathy Leber, Connie Allport, and I met with Bp. Kevin via Zoom to
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St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Emmaus, PA Reflections on The Season of Pentecost The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, July 5, 2020 Dear St. Margaret’s Family, Question, dear friends: How are you all weathering this storm of multiple, serious issues of our time? If you are like I, you are living from week to week, sometimes, day
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Dear Ones, Today is a solemn day as we observe a National Day of Mourning for the 100,000 lives lost from the Covid Pandemic. Today marks another solemn day as we realize the national crisis we are experiencing due to incessant, violent racism in our land. For an excellent summary of the gravity of the situation in
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