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Reading the Bible in a year!
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1. Writing to Alex Long in Afghanistan
Alex Long would appreciate mail from you. You can write Alex a letter at this address:
Sgt Long, Alexander
1st MSOB A CO
UNIT 42550
FPO AP 96427-2550
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Spring Bursting Out, Easter 2 , April 7, 2013 (full size gallery)
Christ centered, Biblically based, spirit filled and a place of simple hospitality, we have shared our communal life with our church,our community, and those in need. Your presence enriches us.
April 14 -11:00am- Holy Eucharist, Rite II
Staten Island Mission Update – Women of Achivement awards, April 4
On April 4, 2013 the Women of Achievement Luncheon was held on Staten Island. Catherine’s sister, Lynnette, creator of the dressing days program and one of the hosts of St. Peter’s last August, was honored. Mayor Bloomberg was on hand.
Here is a link to the event:
and another with a video.
..and one focusing on her in an earlier article
At the same time, the Free Lance-Star ran an article on April 6 of Catherine’s recent award.
Sig’s Diary, Part 1
Except for our first rector William Friend (1836-1870), no one preached longer at St. Peter’s than Sigismund Stribling Ware or as he was known. “Sig”. His years at St. Peter’s spanned 1888-1918. During much of that time he preached at Grace Church (until 1903), St. Asaphs and St. Peter’s. Later in 1914 he later added Vauters.
Recently, a copy of an 1893 diary of this rector has come to light from Cookie Davis. 1893 was in the middle of period between Reconstruction and World War I. It represented the last presence of 19th century life. A decade later cars, airplanes, a growing presence of electricity started forever changing America.
You can read Sig’s diary here. It will remain at the "About Us" menu item above and under "History".
The blank diary was given to Ware at Christmas, 1892 by a Ms. Catlett. The name is either "N" or "H" Catlett. If "H" it could be Harriet T. Catlett. In 1880’s Robert and Catherine Catlett lived on Lot 44 with 8 children including Harriet. Read more
Part 1 – Climate Change -Spiritual Reflections on Nature and Humankind
(This is the first in a series of articles on the environment and specifically climate change leading up to the April 21 showing of the movie "Six Degrees of change ").
The issue of Climate Change that has enveloped over the last generation has involved both religion and science.
Science and religion are tools to investigate reality from two different angles. Each discipline asks a fundamentally different question.
Science asks: how does the universe work?
Religion asks: why is there a universe and what is its purpose, and what is our purpose of existence as human beings?
Now, as the Earth is affected by climate change and other environmental problems we need science to learn more about the causes, effects, and solutions to these problems.
So what’s the role of religion? While scientists can tell us what needs to be done, they are usually not able to motivate society to implement these solutions. That’s where we need religion. Religion provides us with the spiritual understanding of our responsibility towards the Earth and towards other human beings including future generations. In other words, religion provides an ethical or moral framework. And it motivates us to act!
The concern of the environment is an interfaith issue and not just Christian. All faiths have talked about it.
The issue in the Bible goes right back to the early Israelites. Read more
Easter 2 – The Road to Emmaus – the stained glass
On Easter 2, we substituted the Road to Emmaus story for Doubting Thomas, which appears yearly in the lectionary.
Many people may not know that St. George’s Fredericksburg has a wonderful Tiffany stained glass window depicting the story. The window, the first of three Tiffanies at St. George’s, was donated by Mary Downman in honor of two deceased sons:
The window was dedicated at Easter, 2012.
This window is loaded with most of Tiffany’s techniques of glass and color. Christ faces toward us, but the men are turned inward, a compositional device that gives the illusion of depth. The robes are made of drapery glass which shows the folds in their garments. Glass while molten thrown onto an iron table and rolled into a disk. The glassmaker armed with tongs manipulated the mass and by taking hold of it from both ends like dough and pulling and twisting till it fell into folds. The faces of Christ and the two individuals were hand painted with enamel.
To the side of Christ is a landscape created with mottled glass which was a given a spotted touch with the addition of fluorine in the firing process of glass. Tiffany is best known the creator of opalescent glass, those skies that are milky and streaky in appearance and created through years of experimenting with alternating heating and cooling of the glass and with the addition of chemical additives to create the desired effect. Read more..