Weekly Reflections
“Virtual Healing… What?” by Rosemary Dellinger
St. Paul’s is known for so many wonderful worship elements. Beautiful music, welcoming ministry, fresh baked bread at Eucharist, resounding liturgy and healing prayer each and every Sunday… outside of a pandemic. But worship in the time of COVID looks and feels very different. The clergy and staff at St Paul’s have striven to reinvent […]
Continue Reading“Love Our Neighbor” by Bob Giolitto
From the gospel of Mark: “Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, ‘Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.’ But she answered him, ‘Sir, even […]
Continue Reading“Volunteering in the Classroom” by Sarah Johnson
September means back to school, and several St. Paul’s parishioners have returned to the classroom for some years now. We work with students who have recently immigrated to Norwalk from Latin America, many with horrific stories of family members they left behind and their own journeys to Norwalk. Most of these students know little English […]
Continue Reading“Evidence and the Mind” by Wally Frey | September 9, 2020
The first sixteen years of my life were lived in a western suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. It was and is an affluent place. It was also entirely populated by white people. I had the good fortune to be part of an excellent public school system, K thru 12. There were no kids of color present. […]
Continue Reading“Beginnings” by Brian McGunagle | September 2, 2020
We got some much needed outside time together today. The stillness, the sounds of a babbling brook, nature is awake all around us. If you strain to listen, you can hear the leaves growing, the roots stretching and the tree frogs croaking. There is hope to be found in the middle of the woods. There […]
Continue Reading“Changing the World – Changing Ourselves” by Lilian Revel | August 26, 2020
Imagine living in the time and place where Jesus lived two thousand years ago. At the time the place was dominated by the Romans, there was violence everywhere, the temple hierarchy was at odds with the Roman powers and among themselves, there was poverty, slavery, women had no voice and were considered worthless, people were […]
Continue Reading“Over the Rainbow” by Jennifer Hudson | August 19, 2020
Patience is not something for which I am known. I’m sick of waiting for things to get better. This pandemic. The injustices and violence toward marginalized communities. I can’t help but feel like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, living (even prior to the pandemic) in a sepia-toned black-and-white world, dreaming of somewhere over the […]
Continue Reading“The Measure of a Life” by Fr. Daniel Simons | August 12, 2020
There is an ancient prayer in the burial liturgy that both arrests and grounds me every time I hear it. It is prayed at the “Committal,” that portion of the service where we place a loved one’s remains in the ground (or return them to the elements). As earth is cast upon the body the […]
Continue Reading“Joy, Hope, and Faith” by Carol Custus | August 5, 2020
Covid-19 and the social unrest in the country has taken quite a toll on many of us. I have had to finally come to grips with the toll they have taken on me. To say that I was not handling this whole situation well is an understatement. The anger and the “them vs us” mentality […]
Continue Reading“What Next?” by Anne Watkins | July 29, 2020
A few months ago, the Episcopal Church’s Presiding Bishop, the Most Reverend Michael Curry, began publishing weekly meditations that he calls “Habits of Grace” aimed at helping those who watch or read to adjust to the changing environment and realities that the Covid Pandemic heaped upon us all so suddenly. They reminded me of my […]
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