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Monthly Archives: February 2023
Breaking into Light by Laura Martin
Wonderful news from Laura Martin … her wonderful book of poetry is now available. Here is her publicity material … at the bottom of this post are some of my comments from an early addition I had the opportunity to … Continue reading
Prayer for Lent in Winter
It’s been not nearly as winter in southern Maine as in so much of the country, but as I watch the snow outside my window now and watch online the snow, snow, snow in familiar and strange places, this came … Continue reading
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Holy Communion Liturgy for March 6, 2023
Photograph note … On Facebook I am sharing a winter photograph from today, but the format (HEIC) is not accepted on WordPress so it will be replaced by my “travel” Communion from the move of recent months. For my friends … Continue reading
2023 Ash Wednesday to Earth Day Source Book
Michael Mulberry, Pastor and friend is sharing a wonderful resource for free — an Ash Wednesday to Earth Day Source book. It combines his love for spiritual practice, public liturgy, and social justice. You can find that resource in his … Continue reading
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Another perspective
The insiders grab pitons and crampons,some spiritual version of gear,and start to climb, but the ones back at base campsee only a flash of pyrotechnics,faintly hear a man with no sense of rhythmplaying a tambourinewho should stick with stone tabletsand … Continue reading
Prayer for Aotearoa / New Zealand
God hear our prayersfor those in the path of Cyclone Gabrielle,still soaked from the worst floodingin so many years. Wet and sandbagging,transit down in Auckland,schools shut on this Monday,storm widening as it comes downfrom Northland to Auckland, and you are … Continue reading
Prayer for Turkey and Syria after the Earthquake
God, the Most Merciful, the Giver of Peace,the Restorer, the Preserver,you who are in the stillness,the still small voice, the peace-be-still,in the midst of the terrible earth shakingin Gaziantep province of Turkeyand in northwestern Syria,even felt in Lebanon, Palestine, Israel.In … Continue reading
Pray for Peace on the Anniversary of the War in Ukraine, February 24, liturgy from the Peace Cathedral Republic of Georgia
I have received this letter and the liturgy for the service that follows in English translation from Rev Dr. Malkhaz Songulashvili, Bishop of the Peace Cathedral (Baptist) in the Republic of George which has a long history of promoting peace … Continue reading
Short story begins to be written ….. For those of you who know me as half the mystery writing team of Mankin and Tirabassi
At the beginning of January we thanked you for reading and promoting the first in the Rev and Rye Cozy Mystery series, Death at Fair Havens and for reading and enjoying our two holiday short stories – Wanda’s “I Could … Continue reading
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