Weekly Newsletter A Note from Rev'd John "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone." One of the most powerful lines in this Sunday’s Gospel. Most people eventually experience rejection: a relationship ends, a career closes, an institution no longer values us, our abilities diminish, or the identity on which we built our lives comes to an end. This Sunday’s reading from Matthew does not tell us that rejection itself is good. It offers something more hopeful: rejection...
13 days ago • 4 min read
You're Invited: St Michael's Mission Community BBQ Hello All, Happy Fall! I hope you are enjoying this long stretch of sunshine, albeit a little chilly. I am happy to announce we are throwing our annual BBQ again this Friday, October 2nd. As was the case last year, the food will be prepared outside on the lawn and will be served in the Mission. You are more welcome to join our community for a friendly meal between 11:00 and 1:00. If you want to volunteer, the set up will begin as of 9:30 and...
17 days ago • 1 min read
Weekly Newsletter Moses, John August Swanson A Note from Rev'd Holly This note falls during the Season of Creation in the Anglican liturgical cycle. Never heard of that? That’s because it is new! It began back in the late 1990s when the Orthodox Church set aside a day of prayer for creation. And over the years, it has been extended into several weeks, starting at the beginning of September, with Rosh Hashana, the Jewish celebration of the creation of the world. It continues through to 4...
20 days ago • 3 min read
Weekly Newsletter Orthodox icon, likely in mural form, 21st century A Note from Rev'd Ben Dear St. George's, As a child, I was very concerned with fairness. What this really meant is that I wanted to make sure that my sisters weren’t getting a better deal than me, that I was getting my fair share. If you have siblings – or have parented siblings – this might be a familiar concern. But our Gospel reading for this Sunday reminds us that God doesn’t work by making sure that everyone gets theirs,...
27 days ago • 2 min read
Fall Compline Starting tomorrow, September 15th, our evening compline series is back! We invite you to join our clergy every Tuesday on zoom at 8PM EST for this contemplative service in community. Click the link to join the service: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85846651925?pwd=QISnln3VGbW4LKVnGPoO1Zouobhezq.1 600 1st Ave, Ste 330 PMB 92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2246Unsubscribe · Preferences
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Weekly Newsletter A Note from Rev'd John Dear St. George's, We have no shortage of choices. Walk down almost any supermarket aisle and the possibilities can seem endless: dozens of kinds of coffee, toothpaste, cereal, or detergent. Yet these are hardly the choices by which a life is measured. This Sunday, Paul places before us a much more consequential choice. “Let us then lay aside the works of darkness,” he writes, “and put on the armour of light.” We are called consciously to “live...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Weekly Newsletter Annette Gandy Fortt A Note from Rev'd Ben Dear St. George's, Our Old Testament reading this Sunday is one of the most dramatic in the Bible: Moses is out tending his flock when he meets...God! God speaks to Moses out of a burning bush, telling him that his life is about to change forever. For God has chosen Moses to be God's instrument to deliver his people from bondage in Egypt and bring them to the land God promised to Abraham so long ago. We might not have the same sort...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Weekly Newsletter Coming from Evening Church, Samuel Palmer, 1830 A Note from Rev'd Holly Dear St. George's, Each day, as August draws on, the sun appears to be withdrawing slightly to the south again. The flowers have for the most part seen their blooms flourish, are setting seeds and drying. The acorns are dropping and the dew is heavier in the mornings after the cool of the night. It is difficult, for folks like many of us older ones, not to see in this change of season some reflection of...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Weekly Newsletter Woman of Canaan, Sadao Wantanabe, ca. 1940-1996, Watanabe placed biblical subjects in a Japanese context rendered in the mingei (folk art) approach. A Note from Rev'd Heather Dear St. George's, Many of you have heard me refer to Ordinary time as the Green and Growing Season - a title that comes from a catechetical system called Godly Play. This framing invites us to spend the season after Pentecost (and the shorter season between Christmas and Lent) as a time of slow growth...
2 months ago • 3 min read