by fkeene | Nov 13, 2022 | Meditation, Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A Meditation Jesus wants to give some perspective—a splash of cold water—to his followers awed by the city of Jerusalem, and particularly the Temple. Just in from the country, people were observing that the city was indestructible. Jesus knew that everything could be...
by fkeene | Jul 31, 2022 | Meditation, Meditation and Prayer
A Meditation The wise and courageous Teacher Prophet in Ecclesiastes nails all of us. We are indeed vain. We are steeped in it. It’s a human instinct. An irresistible craving. Vanity contorts and unbalances the things that we profess to be most dear. Tragically. This...
by fkeene | Jan 9, 2022 | Meditation, Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A Meditation “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.” This verse in Matthew’s scriptural account of Jesus’ baptism has always jumped off the page at me. The line in somewhat different wording exists in other gospels. The quote is very old in the...
by fkeene | Jan 6, 2022 | Meditation, Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
The Rev. Neil O’Farrell A MEDITATION This passage from Luke, printed below, is being shared with you because it is in itself so beautiful and touching. Anna and Simeon have many legends, devotions, and artwork rendered in their names, but the richness of that...
by fkeene | Dec 25, 2021 | Meditation, Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
First Sunday After Christmas December 26, 2021 Springwell Holy Communion A MEDITATION Luke 2:22-40 This passage from Luke is being lifted up because it is in itself so beautiful and touching. Anna and Simeon have many legends, devotions, and artwork rendered in their...
by fkeene | Dec 24, 2021 | Meditation, Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A Meditation In my false, romantic imaginings, I think of Christmas as having been tenderly celebrated for almost every year for the past two thousand. As much as I know that’s not the case, and that for over centuries the holiday was ridiculed and legally...
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