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Wednesday: St. John Chrysostom, Evening Prayer 5:45, Low Mass 6pm, and Bible study 6:45 on the Gospel of St. John (picking up at John 3:27).

Please note that there will be no services next Wednesday after this, Wednesday Feb 3rd. Your Vicar will be meeting with the +Archbishop at St.  Thomas’ in San Francisco that day. Everyone is invited to join the folks at St. Thomas’ for Mass and Bible study starting at 5:45 p.m.

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Reflections: “Bless those who curse you; bless and do not curse”    One of the qualities St. Paul describes is this amazing ability to bless those who persecute you and curse them not! Actually the Greek says “stop cursing them.” “Be blessing them instead.” There’s always a lot of un-stopped cursing going on in many of our hearts.  Interestingly, much of it is directed at some part of the church that folks have experienced. Maybe it’s an entire denomination. Maybe it’s a pastor or priest, a bishop even. Whatever, the ill will deep in the heart continues, and spiritual lives are being distorted and reduced. I don’t think our salvation is in jeopardy when we all fall short as we all do … but we do become crippled and disabled. It’s a great compassion that the church has lots of handicapped access for us spiritual cripples. (more…)

“Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem.”

Reflections: In our rapt gazing into the light of Epiphany, into the manifold revealing of the true Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, we look along our natural lines of sight which go to our horizon in our time and world. We look for how Our Lord chooses to reveal Himself to us on our scale. (more…)

Reflections: The world has great trouble with the earthy reality of the Incarnation. Even contemporary denominational and non-denominational Christian churches prefer the image of a “Christ consciousness” … sort of a nice bundle of good feelings and good intentions … to the inconceivably dense reality of a baby boy carrying the fullness of God and humanity. It is so much easier  to prefer the warm and fuzzy “aahh…” inside our hearts and bellies than to bow down before the Lord of Heaven. We should remember that the Wise Men didn’t come to say “awhhh”. They came to bow down and worship. They knew Whom they were kneeling and prostrate before.
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