McCann's / Union Charge ot the United Methodist Church

05/31/2022

June 5th is Pentecost Sunday.

04/11/2022

A Prayer for Holy Monday:

Almighty God, whose dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other that the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

From the BCP 1979.

03/11/2022

03/07/2022

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03/01/2022

New stitching for you as Ash Wednesday arrives. You have to hold it to the light to see it like this—how the stitches and cloth hold the ashes together. Light looks different to me in Lent. It’s not quite like the light of Advent and Christmas—a jubilant light that emerges from long darkness. For me, Lenten light is the light that gets in through what is torn, fractured, frayed, worn. It brings its own kind of joy, a stubborn gladness that comes from having learned—and learning still—what the Holy One can do with dust. So many blessings to you as this new season begins.

BLESSING THE DUST

All those days
you felt like dust,
like dirt,
as if all you had to do
was turn your face
toward the wind
and be scattered
to the four corners

or swept away
by the smallest breath
as insubstantial—

did you not know
what the Holy One
can do with dust?

This is the day
we freely say
we are scorched.

This is the hour
we are marked
by what has made it
through the burning.

This is the moment
we ask for the blessing
that lives within
the ancient ashes,
that makes its home
inside the soil of
this sacred earth.

So let us be marked
not for sorrow.
And let us be marked
not for shame.
Let us be marked
not for false humility
or for thinking
we are less
than we are

but for claiming
what God can do
within the dust,
within the dirt,
within the stuff
of which the world
is made
and the stars that blaze
in our bones
and the galaxies that spiral
inside the smudge
we bear.

—Jan Richardson
from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons

03/01/2022

The ashes are ready. Please make space in your calendar to begin your Lenten journey with us on Ash Wednesday at 6:30 pm.

02/24/2022

United Methodist leaders decried war and asked prayers for peace after Russia began an invasion. Meanwhile, churches in Ukraine are opening as shelters.