Last Sunday (Epiphany 3, Jan. 25, 2015)
February 1- 10:00am, Godly Play (preschool through 2nd grade)
February 1- 11:00am, Holy Eucharist, Rite II, Epiphany 4
February 1- 12:00pm, Coffee Hour
February 1- Last day to sign up for the "Picturing Mary" trip
February 2- 7:00pm, Candlemas service
This Sunday at St. Peter’s – Servers, Readings
A Real Souper Bowl, Feb 1, 2015
"Souper Bowl of Caring" is an annual fundraising drive organized in partnership with the NFL. It focuses attention on the issues of hunger and poverty in our community and throughout the world. 140 million will tune into the big game but there are 50 million facing hungry.
It began 25 years ago with a simple prayer : “Lord as we enjoy the Super Bowl, help us to be mindful of those without a bowl of soup to eat.” Souper Bowl evolved into a separate non-profit. During "Souper Bowl of Caring 2014", schools, faith-based organizations and service clubs throughout the United States raised over $10 million that was donated to local charities. Here is their video describing the movement.
St. Peter’s will participate this year, one of over 14,000 groups. We began in 2012. The money and food we collect stays local and benefits Caroline County since the proceeds will go to our Village Harvest Food ministry.
How did we do last year ?
We can exceed $200 and 70 food items in 2015. Please start now and collect food and/or save your dollars to contribute.
On Sunday Feb 1, 2015, please make a separate donation at the offertory (with “Souperbowl” in the memo line) or bring in some food for this worthy cause. For our February Village Harvest distribution, we’re collecting ingredients for chili, so please bring cans of kidney beans, or other type of beans, (you can also bring dried beans) and cans of tomatoes—diced, crushed.
The youth will also be collecting dollars in our pail outside at the conclusion of the service.
Hunger in America – Fredericksburg study 2010 and 2014
The organization Hunger in America completes a study every four years that provide demographic profiles of people seeking food assistance through the charitable sector and an in-depth analysis of the partner agencies in the Feeding America network that provide this assistance. It is the largest study of its kind. The data collected through the Hunger in America studies help guide the development of programs and solutions that improve food security for individuals and their households and inform public policy and support for solving hunger in America. Their key findings in table format are here.
Virginia has 7 Hunger in America food pantries. In our area there is the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank that serves the counties of Stafford, Spotsylvania, Caroline, King George and the City of Fredericksburg. There are over 70 smaller agencies they in turn with work with.
Recently Hunger in America distributed a 2014 study based on hunger in our area. It is revealing for the amount of distress has increased in many areas. Currently, 1 in 8 people in Virginia struggle with hunger.
This provides some justification to our own Village Harvest distribution. The following table attempts to compare Hunger in America’s Fredericksburg study in 2010 and 2014.
Please consider a generous supporting gift in food or money at the "Souper Bowl" to the Village Harvest distribution to keep our ministry going. The need is there.
| Category | 2010 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|
| Served in week | 17,000 | 16,200 |
| Emergency Food Assistance weekly | 3000 | 4200 |
| % Food insecurity | 40% | 95% |
| Coping (Choose between food and utilites) | 53% | 90% |
| Coping (Choose between Food and medicine) | 31% | 81% |
| Composition | ||
| Those children and seniors | 50% | 49% |
| Income | ||
| Households living in poverty (% average of Federal poverty level) | 61.8 | 67.4 |
| Health (At least one member in family in poor health) | 25% | 38% |
| Out of work | 70.8% | 63.9% |
Presentation of Jesus in the Temple and Candlemas, Monday evening, Feb 2, 7pm
“Today is a day of purification, renewal, and hope.”
Bring a candle on Monday night to be blessed in mass as we celebrate the festive Candlemas. We are inviting St. Asaph’s to this service. The Rev. Bambi Willis will be the celebrant with Catherine preaching. Denise Symonds will be our guest organist and Amy Meyer will provide harp music.
Here is last year’s service
The Presentation of our Lord commemorates when Mary and Joseph brought the infant Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem where he was greeted by Simeon and Anna. By the law every first born male was to be consecrated to the Lord.” This happened 40 days after his birth at Christmas.
It is a feast day though it does not often fall on a Sunday. Candlemas occurs at a period between the December solstice and the March equinox, so many people traditionally marked that time of the year as winter’s “halfway point” while waiting for the spring.
Candlemas is actually a very old feast, celebrated by both the churches of the East and the West, and in some places it is on this day that the creche is finally removed from the church. The passage from the words in this scripture are often part of Compline.
According to some sources, Christians began Candlemas in Jerusalem as early as the fourth century and the lighting of candles began in the fifth century. The feast was observed on February 2 in regions where Christ’s birth was celebrated on December 25. It is also Groundhog Day in the United States and Canada on February 2.
Candles are blessed on this day (hence the name “Candlemas”). It was the day of the year when all the candles, that were used in the church during the coming year, were brought into church and a blessing was said over them – so it was the Festival Day (or ‘mass’) of the Candles. Candles were important in those days not only because there was no electric lights. Some people thought they gave protection against plague and illness and famine. For Christians, they were (and still are) a reminder of something even more important. Before Jesus came to earth, it was as if everyone was ‘in the dark’.
Pieces of these candles are considered of great efficacy in sickness, or otherwise. When a person is dying, a piece is put in his hand lighted, and thus he passes away in the belief that it may light him to Paradise.
Field trip, Feb. 9 – Exploring Mary through Art – Deadline for signup Feb. 1
On Monday, February 9th, we will take a field trip to the National Museum of Women in the Arts to see the exhibit, “Picturing Mary.” This exhibit of more than sixty works of images of the Virgin Mary, focuses on different aspects of Mary’s identity and her relationship to our Christian faith. Susan Tilt, professional artist, will lead our group through the exhibit. This is a wonderful opportunity not to be missed.
We will tour the exhibit and eat lunch either in the museum café or in a local restaurant. Admission to the museum is $10 for those under 65, $8 for students and those over 65. Youth 18 and under are free.
Please let Catherine know (540) 809-7489 or by email if you are interested in this fantastic/once in a lifetime opportunity. We have 7 or 8 people signed up. Please respond by Feb. 1 if you want to go and add your name to the list.
You can find more information about the exhibit at the museum website. We also have our own article here which appeared in an earlier email.
Return of Tutoring – "Port Royal Educational Enrichment Program"
We are beginning a second round of tutoring for Port Royal in 2015 under the leadership of Ken Pogue.
There are three major changes in the program from last year:
1. Limiting the tutoring day to only Monday 5pm to 7pm.
2. The location will be our own Parish house and not the fire house
3. The name of the program has changed from "tutoring" to "enrichment". Ken explained that there was some negative reaction to the "tutoring" word among the students.
Last year from March to June, 2014 there were 100 student encounters, 9 tutors over 3 months with Easter intervening. We hope to do even better this year.
One consistency is that we are covering the broad range of education. The program as it developed concentrated on children in elementary school to early high school. Thus we need tutors. You can sign up online or pick a form in church on Sunday. You can also download a paper form here complete and hand in to the church.
The actual start date has not been decided. Ken will be in touch with you. Thanks for your support.
Highlights – Annual Council, Jan. 22-24
Annual Council Videos
A number of videos are available here concerning Annual Council from last weekend, Jan 22-24 . Included are greetings from missionaries around the world and a shout back, Dayspring and one on Shrine Mont Camps.
Notice someone familiar in this image from the Shrine Mont Camps video ? "Click" on the image and see the entire video.
Update from Annual Council: Highlights of Bishop Shannon’s Pastoral Address – "Enjoy the ride!"
Here is what you should know from Bishop Shannon’s speech last week at Council. This speech usually focuses on both the past and what the Bishop will be emphasizing in the coming year. You can read the full speech here.
- Positive feelings in the Diocese and larger sense of Diocesan identity. "To borrow a term from presidential history, it can be said that 2014 was “an era of good feeling.” Yes, we are—by and large,—a HAPPY diocese! ..We hear again and again about a sense that RENEWAL is happening across our diocese, many clergy and laypeople saying that they have noticed this ongoing for the past two and even three years. I’ve also come to sense that there is a stronger sense of "diocesan identity" than was true even just a few years ago, a feeling in a growing number of our congregations that they belong to "something larger" than their own particular community of faith, and that this actually means something–brings something more, perhaps ineffable but nonetheless REAL, to one’s Christian life."
- Listening sessions on racial reconciliation."A key example in our “Working Together, Reaching Beyond” so as to bring a much-needed witness to society is racial reconciliation. .. I am now announcing a major initiative for this year of 2015 that will focus on gaining a better understanding of rising racial tensions. We will begin this effort by holding a series of “listening sessions” in the mid-year around our diocese. “Indaba” listening sessions involve no debate, no cross-talk, but rather give every person present the opportunity to speak their hearts and minds in a safe, non-reactive environment."
- Emphasis on spiritual direction. "For the engaged spiritual life, it is just as important that we “turn inside” to explore our own depth and learn how to keep ourselves spiritually healthy and well grounded. So, another priority I’ve worked for in 2014 and now for 2015 is to expand the ancient ministry and discipline of spiritual direction in our diocese.We will have three or four directors each take three or four months of a year, with the result being that every month offers a residency of several weekdays. There will even be spiritual direction for groups, such as Vestries or congregational discernment committees that are working with someone who is exploring a call into the ordained ministry. So now you’ve got the whole picture—and remember that this will be open to anyone who might be interested, whether ordained or lay."
- Bishop on sabbatical in the fall of 2015.
"To conclude, but continuing the theme of spiritual wellness, I announce that I am going to take a sabbatical from September through December of this year."
Update from Annual Council: Highlights of Bishop Goff’s Address – "Crazy Quilt of the Diocese"
"Our life in the Diocese of Virginia is visible today in vivid textures and vibrant hues. We are like a crazy quilt, which is a traditional American type of quilt made with patches of varying sizes, shapes, textures and colors, sewn together with all sorts of threads and types of stitches, without a discernable pattern. We are like a crazy quilt sewn from a family’s favorite clothes, each piece with its own story. We are alive with layer upon layer, stitch upon stitch of creative energy.
"We see vivid color in congregations that have outgrown their current space and are exploring new models of how to be the church without necessarily having a free-standing building and dedicated parking lot.
"We see bright hues in congregations that are exploring how to use their buildings and grounds in service not only to the current congregation but to the wider community.
"We see rich textures in congregations who have buildings that are now too big for them and who are exploring how to “right-size;” in congregations that are exploring combining, merging or yoking with one or more other congregations, and in congregations that are working to share resources and engage in ministry together while remaining separate churches.
"We see the quilted stitches of our life together among congregations who are wondering if they are called to de-yoke, and in new worship communities that are springing up in unexpected places and who wonder how they are a part of the diocese.
"And we see the necessary darker tones that give our quilt depth and dimension in a congregation that has engaged an intentional process that has led to the decision to conclude their ministries.
"The crazy quilt of our diocese is vibrant now in a time of rapid change in our Church and in our society. " Read the entire report
Update from Annual Council: Highlights of Bishop Gulick’s Address – "This Gospel is worth our life"
"So this past July for the first time in 44 years I was again on the staff of St. George’s Camp (at Shrine Mont). I loved it! And I learned, or more precisely I had an instinct deeply confirmed, that the campaign that we are in for Shrine Mont Camps is not a prolonged do-good moment for an institution that has garnered the affection of Virginia Episcopalians, but rather, it is part of a must-be-claimed strategy for the Evangelization of the culture in this post-Christian era that is our present reality.
"There has been a shift. I would guess that at least one-third of the campers in the session I participated in at St. George’s were either un-churched, or at best had a vague amount of Episcopal or other Christian DNA, but no lived experience of the Gospel.This has probably been increasingly true for over a decade. I know from direct testimony that a child vaguely related to an Episcopal Youth Group in Richmond, came back from camp two summers ago and asked her mother’s permission to be baptized.
"Shrine Mont camps are not just places and memories that we treasure; they are increasingly one of our primary methods of direct Evangelism.
"Because our Bishop has a dear friend named Justin Welby, I recently had dinner with the Archbishop. He said that he had recently been up to his waist in water, baptizing adults in a cattle watering trough that had been moved into a village church yard. He said that if we don’t become a baptismal community there will be virtually no Church in England in about a decade. I found that both a stunning comment and a clarion call. Having just read Archbishop Welby’s recent biography I came across the words the Archbishop recently delivered to the Methodist Conference: ‘We do not want to be useful. We want to be the revolutionary, society-changing, transforming, extraordinary, Spirit-filled church of God.’
"This Gospel is not just worth our money… it’s worth our life." Read the entire report
Epiphany 4, Year B Lectionary Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015
I.Theme – Scope and meaning of God’s Authority
"St. Peter’s – inside picture as a drawing"
The lectionary readings are here or individually:
Old Testament – Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Psalm – Psalm 111 Page 754, BCP
Epistle –1 Corinthians 8:1-13
Gospel – Mark 1:21-28
Mark – Jesus demonstrates divine authority by healing a man with unclean spirit. Jesus preaches the Good news even when it leads to conflict
Deuteronomy – Moses encourage people to listen to God’s prophet and heed God’s word
Corinthians – True obedience to law must be balance by love and compassion
From Bruce Epperly – "Process and Faith"
"Today’s lectionary readings reflect on the nature of authority and the impact of our actions on the wellbeing of others. The season of Epiphany is an invitation to reflect on the many places and ways God reveals Godself to humankind. With the mystic Meister Eckhardt, Epiphany is grounded in the affirmation that all things are words of God. Anyone of us – and also the non-human world – can be a vehicle of divine revelation. Yet, revelation is always contextual, concrete, and variable.
"In the historical matrix of life, some persons and places are more transparent to the divine than others. This is a matter of call and response – God’s call and our responses as individuals and communities. Still, even though all of us turn away from God at times, some more than others, all persons have something of the divine within them. As John’s Gospel proclaims, the light of God enlightens all, even when we pursue darkness rather than light.
"The words of Deuteronomy are both promising and threatening. God will raise up a prophet – another spiritual leader or group of leaders – to succeed Moses. According to the text, God will put words in the prophet’s mouth. Those who don’t follow the prophet’s words will be punished. Any prophet who extemporizes or deviates from God’s revelation will be destroyed.
"The good news is that “God is still speaking” and we can find enlightenment for our path. Still, these words are ambiguous and raise a number of questions:
"Can finite, time bound, and imperfect human beings speak God’s words “perfectly?”
"Can prophets and spiritual leaders ever escape their historical, ethnic, and religious perspective?
"Can we directly speak for God or are our words, by nature, indirect and opaque despite their insight and inspiration?
"How do we know which words come from God and which are self-promoting and manipulative? That is, in a pluralistic environment, how can we discern the difference between “true” and “false” prophecy?
"Psalm 111 speaks of divine authority as a blend of love, power, and justice. Creation itself reflects divine authority, the ability of God to shape our world, cosmologically as well as ethically. There is plenty of free play and competition in the universe – each event emerges from many causes ranging from environment, personal choice, and divine direction – but within this intricate matrix of causation, there is a consistent force aiming at novelty, justice, fairness, and beauty. Authority figures must be judged by their adherence to the “moral arc” of divine intentionality.
"We must always ask the following questions: Does an authority figure promote justice, creativity, and beauty? Does an authority figure seek what is truly best for the community, including honoring diverse opinions and lifestyles? Does an authority figure enable people to be more creative, more adventurous, and more compassionate?
I Corinthians 8:1-13 explores the nature of personal authority and our responsibility for the way our actions – even matters of personal preference – shape the lives of others. Paul notes that even though some of our behaviors or words are in and of themselves innocuous, we need to take heed for their impact on others – especially less mature members of our community. Ethics, Paul recognizes, is not a matter of absolutes or unbending principles, but the impact on the people right in front of us. If our abstractions harm our neighbors, then our principles are of little value to the communities in which we live.
"The reading from the Gospel of Mark (1:21-28) sees Jesus’ authority as joining words and action. Jesus walked the talk, and spoke words that transformed people’s lives and reflected God’s vision for humankind. In today’s reading, Jesus’ sermon leads to action. He confronts a man, possessed by a destructive spirit. While we don’t know the nature of this spirit, it destroyed his personality, rendered him an outcast, unclean, and unable to live with his family. Jesus confronts this unclean spirit with the simple words: “Be still. Come out from him.”
"Jesus’ authority leads to healing and wholeness, inclusion and hospitality. Jesus’ power was for good. His words and actions promoted creativity, agency, growth, and interdependence.
"Today’s readings promote spiritual practices that enable us to attentive to God’s “whispered word.” Discovering our personal authority involves a commitment to prayer, devotional reading, communities of support and accountability, and concern for others. They also challenge us to embody the values we affirm as we seek the wellbeing of our companions and communities. Contemplation and action are one dynamic reality: our insights lead to healing and affirming actions that shape people and communities."
Read more about the Lectionary…
Possession in the Gospel of Mark
by David Lose, president of Luther Seminary
One more thing on Jesus’ first public appearance and activity. We’ve already said that these early words and deeds of Jesus are important to pay attention to because they help flesh out what he means by “the kingdom of God.” But even if we’re paying close attention to what’s happening at this point of the story, we almost immediately run into a problem. And that’s with miracles – they don’t always fit into the way we look at and think about the world today, and that makes them hard to relate to. And in this first miracle of Jesus, it’s even worse: possession. I mean, who believes in possession any more.
Actually, I do. I have, that is, on occasion been possessed by anger at a colleague or family member that has led me to say and do things I regret. I have been possessed by jealousy and envy that had led me to use my resources in ways I regret. And that’s just the beginning. And can you honestly tell me that you haven’t had these experiences also, when you feel possessed by something that is so clearly not the Spirit of God blessing us to be a blessing to others? And there are worse things to be possessed by as well. Think of what it’s like to be possessed by an addiction to alcohol, drugs, gambling, or pornography. Or how it feels to be possessed by prejudice. Or maybe it’s the kind of possession that isn’t quite as obvious, or that our culture actually approves of, like workaholism, affluenza, or greed. (Remember Gordon Gekko’s Wall Street speech that “greed is good” and the way that attitude more recently has both captured and ravaged our culture and economy?)
There are, I think, a lot of ways to be possessed. Is that what Mark describes in this story. I don’t know, but I do think we might be helped by shedding our Hollywood-fed images of demons causing us to vomit and spin our heads (Exorcist-style) and instead image that they represent those forces that are diametrically opposed to God’ will. Rather than bless, they curse; rather than build up, they tear down; rather than encourage, they disparage; rather than promote love, they sow hate; rather than draw us together, they seek to split us apart.
So maybe we could boil down this first miracle of Jesus this way: Jesus has been baptized, tempted in the wilderness, and now comes to proclaim and demonstrate the kingdom of God on earth, and he does this by opposing the forces of evil which would rob the children of God of all that God hopes and intends for them.
Preaching the Healing Narratives in Mark
By Lawrence
The new messianic community: healing, restoration and conflict
Jesus’ ministry is about gathering into being a new community – a messianic community – which is a sign of the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is the world as it ought to be and will be under God. The message of the kingdom is the Good News that Jesus preaches (1:14). It has “come near” in Jesus and begins to take shape – takes on “ground space” – in the community of disciples and followers that Jesus gathers around him. This new community is an anticipation and sign of the kingdom of God.
Significantly, this happens on the margins. Jesus’ ministry takes place in Galilee, far away from Jerusalem. He is baptized in the vicinity of the city, but in the wilderness. This is the place of resistance to the Temple and the religious purity system center there. The point is that the purity system breaks down community by exclusion. The focus of Jesus’ ministry is among the excluded.
We need therefore to be constantly alert several narrative-structural features of the healing narratives, in addition to the healings themselves:
· Jesus is a healer, not a curer. This is the “healing and wholeness” point. Jesus pays virtually no attention to the symptoms of illness, so crucial in medical diagnosis. He is not a super-doctor! He does not attempt to explain the causes of illness, either in medical or spiritual terms (eg as a result of sin).
·A fundamental feature of the healing narratives is the restoration of community. Peter’s mother-in-law is healed in order to participate in the Sabbath meal (with all the importance that attaches to table fellowship). Lepers are healed in order to be re-integrated into the community. The purity system excludes sick people from participation in communal life and blessing, and the healings that Mark records almost invariably entail the restoration of the healed person to the wider community.
· Unsurprisingly, the healings are therefore in effect (though not intention) a direct confrontation with the religious purity system. We need to be alert to the reaction of those who see healing as a threat. So, for example, the healing of the man with the withered hand (3:1-6) is set in terms of the conflict over Sabbath keeping (as is Peter’s mother-in-law, by implication). Healings are theologically significant and provide the context for many of the deadly conflicts over the Law between Jesus and the Pharisees. The account of a healing concludes with the Pharisees and the Herodians conspiring together to destroy Jesus (3:6).
· The healings are messianic actions. Not only are they the presence of the saving actions of God (the plundering of the Strong Man’s house) but they directly provoke the opposition of the religious authorities that results in Jesus’ suffering and death (which is what is to define his messiahship).
· They make sense of the “great reversal” of the kingdom. Jesus heals among the marginalized and outside the dominant religious system. The dominant system has no place for these people, so that the idea that God is at work through the Messiah among these is anathema to the leaders. This is part of the reason why “the first shall be last and the last first”. Grace is seen in God’s radical inclusion of the excluded. Those who are unable to accept this cut themselves off from Jesus, the new messianic community and the kingdom.
· Jesus did not see himself primarily in opposition to the religious system of his day, but as a prophetic, “purification” movement within Judaism.There is a dynamic tension in all the gospels over what would have happened had Jesus and his message been accepted. The passion predictions suggest that Jesus was fully aware that he had come to be rejected and that his death was inevitable. His weeping over Jerusalem suggests his hope that he would have been accepted and that the kingdom he inaugurated would come about. The healing stories reflect this tension. In the cleansing of the leper (1:40-5), Jesus urges the leper to go to the priest and go through the proper cleansing and restoration rituals. It is clear that Jesus wished to establish the new messianic community within Judaism, rather than in opposition to it. The healing narratives help to plot the movement of Jesus’ initial hope of acceptance, then through opposition to rejection and inevitable death. They help to emphasize the fact that Jesus died because of the life of the kingdom he lived, rather than only a result of the divine plan of salvation through suffering and death. They make his life, as well as his death and resurrection, significant for Christian discipleship.
Read more about the healing narratives…
Numbers in the Bible (and in the Super Bowl)
We may not be rich in money but we are certainly rich in numbers. Pick up any newspaper or listen into any news broadcast and you see what I mean. Usually these numbers are negative "2 die in car crash", "3 arrested in drug sting." Unfortunately we rarely do see or hear this one – "4 children do a good deed in their neighborhood."
If we look at our lectionary readings this week, we see the number 1 in Deuteronomy ("the prophet") and 1 in the Psalm ("Lord"). When we get to the New Testament it gets more complicated. Yes, Corinthians talks of one – "God", one "Christ" but then we get "idols". How many are there ? The Gospel talks "scribes". How many did Jesus see ? "Disciples". How many were there at this time ? But then we are back to "1", "the man with the unclean spirit" and then Jesus. Numbers convey messages and spiritual truths as well.
Jesus is the "one with authority." It only takes one Jesus to deal with many idols. And we do have them. Have you ever counted them ? Here are a few -anger, fear, greed, workaholism, affluenza, substance abuse, etc. etc. Too many! Jesus takes care of the unclean spirits succinctly. As David Lose writes "God does not want these things for us and that church, at its best, is a place where we gather in Christ’s name to support each other in escaping the hold these things have on us that we might grow as individuals and a community as people blessed to be a blessing."
Back to numbers. There are websites that deal with numbers in the Bible. Here is a good one. Pick your number and get a story.
There is another way to deal with numbers and that is the countdown approach. Think you know the Super Bowl ? The writers at Time have come up with a countdown and over 49 years they bring up 49 Super Bowl Facts You Should Know Before Super Bowl XLIX. Enjoy the game!
Up and Coming… A Lenten Study
Lent begins on Feb. 18 with Ash Wednesday. It can be seen as a journey, a time of looking inward, a time of self-evaluation before Easter. The emphasis is on both repentance and renewal.
In the spirit of the latter, the monks at the Society of St. John the Evangelist have put together an educational series on time for personal or group study at Lent that begins on Feb. 18 and goes through Palm Sunday.
As they say "The first thing God called holy was time but we have corrupted, damaged and polluted this gift as they say. The gift of time is seen not as a gift but as an enemy -we never have enough of it." Here is their description : "So much of our stress and anxiety derives from our pollution of Time. God has given us the gift of time, and called it holy, yet we often experience time as a curse."
"In a series of short, daily videos over five weeks, the Brothers of SSJE invite us to recapture time as a gift. Join the Brothers as they wrestle with questions of time and discover how to experience the joy of the present moment." "Each theme is introduced with a video of a Brother priming us for the week’s theme. The theme is then explored in depth in six short reflection videos (around 2 minutes each). A compilation video is also available each Sunday." This is all done by a daily email.
This goal is help us reorder time in our lives to make life more abundant, to become happier and thus glorify God. For more information see the video link below and the work book. Sign up now for this program below.
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