Category: Living in Christ
Live Stream Great Vigil of Easter Service 4-16-22
Church at Home This Weekend
Join our prayerful community as we worship together via a recorded service. Through marvelous music, holy scripture, reflection, and the service of Holy Eucharist, we will engage with one another and with the holy. You may receive either Spiritual Communion, or Communion under Special Circumstance, in you have consecrated wafers at home. You may always pick up consecrated wafers from our sacristy.
To engage with the recorded service, please click below.
To download a bulletin for the service, please click below.
To engage with Mother Barbara’s homily, please click below.
We are grateful for your presence with us. Many blessings to you,
Church at Home Worship 4th Sunday after Epiphany 1/31/2021
This Sunday, we offer you a special time of worship which will heal the wounds of your soul, inspire your heart, open your being to the truth revealed in scripture, and invite you to enter into Spiritual Communion with Christ and one another. This is our Virtual Worship where through imagery, music, and prayer, we settle into the glory of God.
To download a bulletin so you can participate in singing along, join in the prayers, and read the weekly announcements, check back this weekend.
To engage with Mother Barbara’s homily for this service, please check back this weekend.
Church at Home – the 3rd Sunday after the Epiphany – 1/24/21
We invite you to worship with us, through imagery, music, scripture, prayer, and reflection. As always, we are so happy you are worshipping with us.
worship service
Mother Barbara’s homily
Church at Home – 2nd Sunday after the Epiphany – 1/17/21
We welcome you to our worship this week. Thank you for being a part of us!
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mother barbara’s homily
Church at Home for This Christmas Day 12/25/2020
To access a virtual worship video which is a time of worship through prayers, sacred scripture, reflection and amazing music, please click below.
To download the bulletin for this service, so you can follow along with the service and sing the music, please click below .
To access Mother Barbara’s homily only, please click below
Church at Home for this Christmas Eve 12/24/2020
To access a virtual worship video which is a special time of worship through prayers, sacred scripture, reflection and amazing music, please click below.
To download the bulletin for this service, so you can follow along with the service and sing the music, please click below .
To access Mother Barbara’s homily only, please click below
Church at home Worship for 12/20/2020 4th Sunday of Advent
We want you to be able to be a part of our worshiping community in the safety of your own home. We are a gathered community in heart and spirit and we are grateful you are here with us. Click below for the Virtual Worship Service.
We invite you to download a bulletin so you can sing along with the hymns and share in the prayers. Click below for the bulletin for this service.
Click below for Mother Barbara’s Homily for this Service.
Click below for Mother Barbara’s Message to our Younger Ones
Early Church Writings – Gospel of Matthew
We continue our exploration of the Early Church Writings, working our way into the Gospel of Matthew. This past week, we read aloud the first 5 chapters of the gospel and then delved into the historical context, learning about Matthew’s take of Jesus as the “new Moses” and how he built his case for that connection, between the genealogy, wise men, exile into Egypt, baptism, and then the Sermon on the Mount (on the mountain as when Moses received the 10 commandments on mt. Sinai)/ We spent time intentionally sitting with and reflecting upon the beatitudes, how they connect with Matthew’s gospel, and what they mean to us now.
We continue our study on Wednesday, 4th. Please email Mother Barbara for the Zoom link.
For the study guide, please click below.
The image shown above is of the site near the Jordan River where Jesus offered his teaching on the beatitudes.
Church at Home Worship for 10/18/20
We are delighted you are worshiping with us from the safety and comfort of your home. Please settle into our worship and allow your heart to be strengthened, your soul restored, and your body refreshed by this worship service of prayer, scripture reading, glorious music, and a homily.
To download the bulletin so you can read along and sing the hymns, please click below.
To listen to only the homily, please click below. We are blessed to have Canon Chris Streeter to be leading worship with us.
Book Discussion on The Universal Christ
This past week we gathered to explore the ideas in Richard Rohr’s book, The Universal Christ. We meet every other week for lively discussions as well as a contemplative practice that settles our soul, for it is in resting in God that we are restored and can see the broadness and expansiveness of the Risen Christ among us.
This week we began with our contemplative exercise. We engaged in a video of images taken of nature and reflected upon what the images say to us about the nature of God. For Rohr contents, that God is not just the Creator of all things, but is revealed in all things — which means we can learn about the nature of God and be in relationship with God by engaging with nature and looking with “the eyes of our heart”. As we watched the video we wrote down words that speak to us of what we know about the essential qualities of God. Words such as: abundance, provides security, is all about community, trusting, starkness, strength, comfort, new life, turning toward light, always in motion were some of the reflections we offered to one another.
To watch the nature image video, please click below.
We then discussed the many faithful ways that we have dealt with the isolation and sense of alienation from the pandemic by turning ever more closely to the interior “mirror of Christ” within us, to strengthen our connection with the holy. It was a beautiful time of sharing and reflection for the resourcefulness of God to pull us into exactly the right experiences to find solace and comfort.
We concluded our conversation by talking about Sabbath and the natural pattern established by God in the creation narrative: “doing” following by “being” and how this plays out in our spiritual lives, as we yearn to make our lives prayer, rather than incorporate prayer into our lives.
To pray along with Desmond Tutu our closing prayer taken from his book, “Made for Goodness”, please click below.
We meet every other Thursday at 2 p.m. Please email Mother Barbara for the Zoom link.