tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39233322009-02-21T04:05:05.884-05:00The Life of an Anglican Parish in White Plains, NY Sunday Services at 8:00 and 10:00 amGawainnoreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3923332.post-61995486551390275702007-05-04T14:10:00.000-04:002007-05-04T14:11:02.727-04:00

Hi friends, acquaintences, businesses, ex-lovers, family, webmasters, etcI accidentally sent out a "tagged" email to everyone in my address book.  It is not a virus.  I was tagged myself and did a little searching into the site.   Lets just say that when I hit send, I didn't understand it would go through my address book.  I hope you don't get any more spam than you already do. No need for

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Gawain D, 37 White Plains, NY Gawain D has added you as a friend Is Gawain D your friend?   Please respond or Gawain may think you said no :( Click here to unsubscribe from Tagged, P.O. Box 193152 San Francisco, CA 94119-3152

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Greetings:We're busy setting up our new blog, which will take some time. For now, this will not be updated regularly. We've moved to moveable type, based upon the model of the Church of St. Martin's in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, which is a fairly easy to use website. They use mychurchevents.com to schedule events. It fits nicely within their blog.Thank you for your occasional

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Having a good time

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Alleluia! Christ is Risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia!!After the drought and subdued nature of Lent, the introspection and participation of Holy Week here we are in Eastertide (yes, it DOES last more than one Sunday), it's joy, thanksgiving, celebration and relief.... well, the clergy en masse are recovering from a long - usually lonely - week. It's over and it isn't.I sit here, this

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It's odd, isn't it.... the verses of Scripture that can pop into your head sometimes.With the goings on between the loosely knit members of the Anglican purple cloth in the news this week.... well, this one popped right up.If we love one another, don't we try and try again? If we love one another, isn't there enough room at the table of discussion for everyone?Historically, everyone knows on some

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Correction!: The shrove Tuesday dinner will be held at St. Bartholomew's Church, not Trinity on February 8th. Dinner begins between 6:30pm and 7:00pm and ends no later than 9:30pm. Blood Drive on February 4th in the auditorium from 2-6 PM. Candlemas / Presentation of Our Lord service at 7:30pm on February 2nd. If you are interested in joining us for the Wednesday Lenten Discussions

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Lord, do something about your Church. It is so awful, it is hard not to feel ashamed of belonging to it. Most of the time it seems to be all the things you condemned: hierarchical, conventional, judgmental, hypocritical, respectable, comfortable, moralising, compromising, clinging to its privileges and worldly securities, and when not positively objectionable, merely

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whether it's the weather, or an unimaginable disaster, or the flu, or a disability, or the wear and tear of the years, some things just plain pull up us short and we are presented with the opportunity to look at our lives and deep within ourselves and have a long conversation with God. i have been quite ill for over a month now. i have not been @ my parish, i have not been innundated with get

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For those of you who missed it! [On matthew 4:12-23] Well, it's nice to see everyone here today - I'm impressed. We have our own mini-apocalypse going on out there. I think Gary thinks that we're supposed to celebrate the Eucharist with a shovel. Whever there is a storm we get a little taste of the world that scripture arises from - a mini apocalypse. Since we're in an affluent,

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Because of the snowstorm, the deacon and the organist will not be driving to White Plains. I don't expect most of the LOLs to come down. Still, I'll preach a sermon, and make it a roarin' one for all the dedicated parizzoners who represent in the holy of holies. We'll sing everything acapella, which is an adventure only the truly faithful can comprehend. Peace to all who crave it.

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"What anyone’s life means is not exclusively his own affair. He lives in relation — to others and to a society. At the simplest level, what often most shocks and grieves people who have been close to a suicide is the feeling that someone who has killed himself did not know what he really meant to his friends or family, did not know that he was loved and valued. And even when someone who

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Corinthians Sermon A sermon on I Corinthians 1:1-19 Life doesn't really change after high school. Just like high school, the real world has cliques. The nerds, musicians, jocks and do-gooders oftne find themselves in similar groups afterwards. And there are the jocks of the business world, the geeks who develop the technology and ideas, and the do gooders who enter the non-profit world or

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The following is a letter to the Episcopal Diocese of New York from Bishop E. Don Taylor as he prepares for his visit to India. Dear Brothers and Sisters, Several months ago, our Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk, asked me to make a visit to the Diocese of Madras at the invitation of the Bishop there, to address the Synod of the Church in Madras which meets next week, January 12 – 15, 2005.

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This Saturday, there will be a spectacular performance at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine for a performance at 1:30. We'll leave from the church at 12:30. For more information http://www.3kingsreyes.info/ If you are interested in donating to help victims of the tsunami, you may try www.er-d.org or make a check out to St. Barts for the tsunami relief fund. We'll then make out a

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I paraphrase one wag – “Human evil is easy to explain. It’s earthquakes that threaten to break the faith.” Scripture agonizes over God’s presence in nature. The psalmist knows God through nature; and yet John understand God as not in the world. It’s easy to find God in a sunset, in the thrill of being at the top of a mountain; in a blooming flower. Surely God is God because he did create all

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I have a date New Year's Eve.... I didn't have one, then decided to see if any help was needed uptown. As it turns out, I could be of service. Bishop C. Roskam will be celebrating the Eucharist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and no Deacon was on the slate. So I got a call back today. Sure. Be there at 10:15. Lots of people have traditions for New Year's Eve. When we were young, my

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Friends, As you well know, the death toll is climbing due to the horrible natural disaster that has hit Asia and the East Coast of Africa. Disease may take the lives of thousands more. The diocese of New York and Episcopal Relief and Development are there. Like Catholic Charities and Oxfam, they help people of all sorts who need safe places. And they need your help. From the Church of South

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http://terd.org/

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I preached at Trinity Lutheran after the 9:00 servicetoday - there were about 40 people there. They did anice Carols and lessons service, combined with theEucharist. After, two of the people shared with me their ideasabout having a combined Lutheran / Episcopal church.I had a chance to visit Nan, Mary, and Jean [who isnot a member but someone I've been visiting regularly]today. I called

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In June, NPR obtained photos of a U.S.-run detention center in Iraq They aren’t images of humiliation or torture There aren’t dogs or naked and frightened men; They show Americans soldiers and Iraqi prisoners smiling together. The images come from Camp Bucca in southern Iraq. The images generally have Maj. Stacy Garrity, an Army reservist who became known as "the angel of Camp Bucca."

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We have moved from Advent to the precipice and now nearly to the summit of Christmas... a journey of ups, downs, winding paths, distractions, valleys, crags. We have been looking out and up, our neck crooked in expectation. We are about to arrive at a mystical, miraculous place where all that we have know will meet the embodiment of all there is to know. It's exciting. At a profound level, it

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At St. Bartholomew's Church: Character over corruption Meaning above money Integrity over Pride Sabbath above Stress In the service of Christ's love In our church We teach resilience We practice charity We exemplify integrity We expect accountability We shield joy We reveal breathing space in the midst of chaos

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Time Dollars - a site that computes one time dollar = one hour. Lots of interesting consequences. And the Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation - site that encourages global awareness. Check them out!

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We had a wonderful festive party the other evening. Art B. won the $5000 prize, and two other parishioners won as well. Second prize was won by a friend of Catherine's in California. Terra, Steve B.'s daugher drew the first prize. next year we'll have more places for kids; and even include a bit of a talent show in it. Today I spent reading Let the Children Come by Brant Baker - a book on

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