St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Emmaus, PA Reflections on The Season of Pentecost The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 13, 2020 By Rev. Jane Bender Dear St. Margaret’s Family, Greetings to each of you! My prayers for safety and solace continue for each of you during these strange and unusual times of the ongoing pandemic. In […]
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St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Emmaus, PA Reflections on The Season of Pentecost The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 6, 2020 By Mo. Laura Thomas Howell Dear Brothers and Sisters, Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so
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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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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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St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Emmaus, PA Reflections on The Season of Pentecost The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, August 2, 2020 By Mo. Laura Thomas Howell Dear Brothers and Sisters, What a great time for us to read Genesis 32:22-31, the wonderful story of Jacob! He was alone one night, and a man attacked him while
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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 Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, July 12, 2020 By Mo. Laura Thomas Howell Dear Brothers and Sisters, This is the time of the year when we are normally on vacation, or thinking about the vacation soon to come. “The lazy, hazy days of
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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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