Weekly Reflections

St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, Emmaus, PA

WEEKLY REFLECTION | Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, June 20, 2021

Dearest Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Again, it is with great joy and thanksgiving that I write to you that the big day of St. Margaret’s reopening is happening!   So – MARK YOUR CALENDARS!  It has been a long wait – we have persevered – and we are going to again experience the incredible joy

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WEEKLY REFLECTION | Third Sunday after Pentecost, June 13, 2021

Dearest Sisters and Brothers in Christ, It is with great joy and thanksgiving that I write to you that the big day of St. Margaret’s reopening is happening!   At last evening’s Vestry Meeting it was unanimously decided to resume in-person worship the first Sunday of July – July 4, 2021.   Alleluia!  We are beyond

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WEEKLY REFLECTION | Second Sunday after Pentecost, June 6, 2021

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

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WEEKLY REFLECTION | First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday, May 30, 2021

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,

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Sing to the Lord a new song, * for he has done marvelous things.

WEEKLY REFLECTION | The Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 9, 2021

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.  

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