For all who have been raised up with Christ in baptism, especially Juliette Marie Wolf McKenney and Megan Heisinger, that they may find joy in God’s wondrous love, Let us pray to the Lord. For the leaders of our Christian community, and especially for our search committee as they exercise their powers of discernment, that […]
Presiding Bishop Easter Message 2014 “Where and how will we look for the Body of Christ, risen and rising?,” Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori presents in her Easter Message 2014. “Will we share the life of that body as an Easter people, transformed by resurrection and sent to transform the world in turn?” […]
Loving God, please hold our world of humans in your tender hands. Help us to be of the mind and heart of Jesus; help us to humble ourselves in obedience to your teachings, that we might love you and one another with all our hearts and minds and soul and strength. Dearest Lord, we pray. […]
Dear Mother Father God, We pray to you with hearts longing to know your peace. Bless Emmanuel Church as a vessel of your love, caring openly for all who enter here, for our community and for those beyond all boundaries. WE PRAY TO YOU WITH HEARTS LONGING TO KNOW YOUR PEACE. We pray for our […]
Dear Ones, I’m sure many of you are by now aware of the massive mudslide that occurred this weekend in Oso, Washington, about 55 miles northeast of Seattle. I have been in close communications with the Rev. Janet Loyd, Vicar at Church of the Transfiguration in Darrington, near Oso, and the Rev. Terry Kyllo, Priest in […]
O Lord, who does not see as mortals see, we pray for the world and your church. Open the eyes of all your children. So, we may live as children of light. O Lord, help Katherine, Greg, Wray and Kate as well as all ministers be faithful leaders empowering us to fulfill your mission. So, […]
The Episcopal Church has a long-held position that a just and lasting peace can only come through two states living side by side, and our position that negotiations must be the process for which this comes about. This week, a group of 42 Christian leaders in the United States and Jerusalem – including both Presiding […]
Even when we test God or quarrel with our neighbor, God lives in us, and love is perfected in us. When we thirst and do not comprehend the quenching of our thirst, God lives in us, and love is perfected in us. When poverty, illness, or death seem to overwhelm, God lives in us, and […]
This eleventh edition of Episcopal Relief & Development’s Lenten Meditations, captures reflections from leaders across the Anglican Communion on their favorite scriptures and other sources of spiritual wisdom. Enjoy http://issuu.com/episcopalrelief/docs/2014_lent_english
Dear God the Mother and Father, May this church gathering today, draw your love through us to each other, our community, the world and to those you call us to serve. We surrender to your love, in the name of Jesus Christ. We pray for Emmanuel Church, our priests, Kate and Wray, our Vestry, Wardens, […]