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...
by fkeene | Dec 19, 2021 | Meditation, Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
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. Among his tasks, I watched him deftly and precisely sculpt teeth, dentures, and bridges. Sculpting is the best word to describe...
by fkeene | Dec 19, 2021 | Meditation, Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A Meditation How do two kinswomen greet each other, when both have a “quickening” in their wombs? Superficially, Elizabeth seems too old and Mary seems too young to enter history the way they did. What brings them together are shared pregnancies. Both are amazed about...
by fkeene | Dec 19, 2021 | Meditation, Meditation and Prayer, Reflections & Bulletins
A MEDITATION “You brood of vipers!” No, wonder John the Baptist didn’t have many friends. He seemed constitutionally incapable of being nice. Jesus and John meshed. They realized that together, they were ushering in God’s salvation for a fallen humanity. One was the...
by fkeene | Sep 18, 2021 | Meditation, Meditation and Prayer
Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost September 19, 2021 Springwell Holy Communion A MEDITATION Being first? Is it important rarely, every so often, usually, always? Last is unacceptable. Yet hear Jesus’ words: “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant...
by fkeene | May 19, 2021 | Meditation, Meditation and Prayer
The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven God is Love May 16, 2021 Holy Communion A Meditation And they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; and they were continually in the temple blessing God. I have always been struck by that observation...
by fkeene | Feb 23, 2021 | Meditation, Meditation and Prayer
The Rev. Dr. Neil O’Farrell, Celebrant First Sunday of Lent This Is My Son, the Beloved: Listen to Him! February 21, 2021 Morning Prayer A Meditation Stephen and I were moving to Baltimore for me to take up my first call...
by fkeene | Apr 22, 2020 | Meditation, Reflections & Bulletins
Meditation By Pastor Neil The apostles didn’t recognize Jesus. How could that be? They had walked with him over a span of three years or so. They had heard him teach and preach, tell parables, cast out demons, and heal the sick. They’d scrounged food, no doubt; and...
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