Weekly Reflections

Dearest Sisters and Brothers in Christ, I hope you had a happy, if a bit soggy, Memorial Day Weekend!  It was a time when families were cautiously coming back together for gatherings in person – and sharing actual hugs!  As to St. Margaret’s reopening for in-person worship, we are definitely getting closer.  The Vestry is […]

Dearest Sisters and Brothers in Christ, This week we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Trinity.  This is the Christian belief that God is one and in three persons:  God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. To quote a noted theologian, “You would think this is craziness! But for Christians, it is how God moves, relates,

Dearest Sisters and Brothers in Christ, On the Day of Pentecost, we remember the pouring out of God’s Spirit upon the disciples.  After Jesus’ Ascension into heaven, God promised not to leave us comfortless or bereft.  God sent the Holy Spirit to descend upon us and give us the consolation, joy and unconditional love of

Last year was a difficult one. And this winter seemed particularly long and dreary to me. More than one of us commented that we felt like we had been in Lent the whole time.  Being “cooped up”, as my mother used to say, is not very pleasant. But now, golden-green baby leaves are popping out on the trees, fruit trees are blossoming, and every kind of spring flower is exploding out of the slowly warming earth.  Some of us have even dared Mother Nature and have put out plants in our gardens.  

This letter comes with affection for you all and prayers that your Holy Week is a time of spiritual growth. For this reflection letter, I will let the words of a hymn express my thoughts and prayers for this most solemn day of Our Lord’s suffering and death.  

This letter comes with affection for you all and prayers that your Holy Week is a time of spiritual growth. For this reflection letter, I will let the words of a hymn express my thoughts and prayers for this most solemn day of Our Lord’s suffering and death.  

This letter comes with affection for you all and prayers that your Holy Week is a time of spiritual growth. For this reflection letter, I will let the words of a hymn express my thoughts and prayers for this most solemn day of Our Lord’s suffering and death.  

This letter comes with affection for you all and prayers that your Holy Week is a time of spiritual growth. For this reflection letter, I will let the words of a hymn express my thoughts and prayers for this most solemn day of Our Lord’s suffering and death.  

We approach this Passion/Palm Sunday 2021 with a long season of suffering behind us. It is fitting and appropriate that we are grieving, angry, and hold deep sorrow for our nation. We are called, as disciples of Jesus, to also be persons who break the cycle of violence. May this Holy Week be one where we suffer with Christ as we walk with him to Jerusalem.

Verse 23 says: “For he does not despise nor abhor the poor in their poverty; neither does he hide his face from them. But when they cry to him he hears them.”These verses apply to those in physical hunger and poverty. But as sure as these words of the Psalmist speak to physical poverty and hunger, they ALSO absolutely speak to SPIRITUAL poverty and hunger.