Helping others to know the great love God has for them is amazing, miraculous and beautiful. It is also heartbreaking, frustrating and hard.

Beloved in the Lord, A resource Jamey and I use often is the website: https://www.dailyoffice2019.com/ This site brings up the daily offices: Morning, Midday, Evening and Compline prayer services, with all the Scriptures included. It even has an audio version. One of their new features is to give a history of different Saints, according to their feast days. I wanted to share this informative feature with you. Below is the information for Cyril of Alexandria, whose feast day w

We cannot swim against the current in our own strength. We need to be still. We need to trust that God will carry us to a safe place and rescue us.

Hello Saints, As most of you know by now we lost Karen Halligan on Tuesday of this week. This is a little less than a year since that family also lost Jeremy. If you haven't already, please reach out to her husband Steve by emailing stephen.halligan@usa.net or by sending a card to: 240 Hawthorne Road, Washington PA 15301. It's at times like this when being part of a loving church community can be so important. We of course have the comfort of knowing that she is now with Je

I had two conversations this week about assurance. One was with someone who was lamenting their own lack of assurance-they struggle to trust that they are forgiven and saved because they can see the sin in their own life. The second conversation was with my husband. We were at a funeral recently where assurance of salvation and eternal life was NOT preached-even though the deceased was a professing Christian. Article 11 of the 39 Articles, a foundational document of Anglican

Hello Saints, First a quick reminder that tomorrow is the bishop's annual visit to Trinity. We will be receiving two people into the Anglican Communion as well. We encourage everyone to make it to church this weekend if you can. As an added incentive, there will be a tasty feast for coffee hour afterwards! So for movie night this week we watched an older movie, Field of Dreams (1989). This was one of my favorites as a young adult. I actually owned a Laser Disc copy (if you

As the season for vacations begins, Jamey and I thought we’d make some suggestions for summer reading. These are books we love, or authors we love, in both fiction and non-fiction. We also got some suggestions from our son and our Bishop!

Hello Saints, I recently listened to a in interview with author and Anglican priest The Rev. Tish Harrison Warren. She is the author of two amazing books, Liturgy of the Ordinary & Prayer in the Night. She is also a columnist for the New York Times. Both Tracey and I would highly recommend her writings, and, well, she also happens to be one of Tracey's friends. Warren's latest offering is called What Grows in Weary Lands: On Christian Resilience. The book was the subject of