by fkeene | Jan 29, 2023 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY January 22, 2023 Springwell Holy Communion A Meditation When the bible says that Jesus spoke in the synagogue, typically the forerunner of this building pictured on this bulletin cover is Jesus’ home place of public, community worship....
by fkeene | Jan 14, 2023 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY January 15, 2023 Springwell Holy Communion A Meditation One of my oldest friends is named Joe. That’s what everyone calls him. Except for me. Through a confluence of events, I’ve always called him Jody. I’ve called him that over the...
by fkeene | Jan 12, 2023 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
EPIPHANY January 8, 2023 Springwell Holy Communion A Meditation One of the oldest techniques of biblical storytelling is called harmonization. This is the process of putting two different stories together as if they were always a single story. One of the prime...
by fkeene | Jan 8, 2023 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
THE HOLY NAME January 1, 2023 Springwell Holy Communion A Meditation Shakespeare posed a rhetorical question about what is in a name. A rose, he wrote, would by any other name still smell as sweet. That line worked in context in a conversation between Romeo and...
by fkeene | Jan 1, 2023 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
CHRISTMAS DAY December 25, 2022 Springwell Holy Communion A Meditation One of my preaching professors accused me—probably rightly—of pursuing “invidious originality.” That I hankered after the novelty of words for their own sake. I’ve often thought of his...
by fkeene | Dec 17, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A Meditation Let us deeply take in the opening words of the Gospel of Matthew: Now, the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy...
by fkeene | Dec 11, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT GAUDETE SUNDAY December 11, 2022 Springwell Holy Communion A Meditation In Luke’s gospel, no sooner had the angel Gabriel departed after receiving consent from Mary that she would be the mother of God’s son—Mary leaves her home to make the long...
by fkeene | Dec 4, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT December 4, 2022 Springwell Holy Communion A MEDITATION When I was a youngster, my dentist father would take me to his office sometimes in the evening to watch him do his lab work. I watched him deftly, precisely sculpt teeth, dentures, and...
by fkeene | Nov 27, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
First Sunday in Advent November 27, 2022 HOLY EUCHARIST Meditation Advent is here. And soon we will celebrate the birth of Jesus—Christmas. Just as the season slides one into another, Advent will arrive as the companion to winter and the longest darkness of the year....
by fkeene | Nov 20, 2022 | Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
The Reign of God Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost November 20, 2022 Springwell Senior Living A Meditation Going to seminary was often a shock to my system. I discovered that the feast known as Christ the King had become problematic because of its hearkening...
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