St. Wilfrid's Episcopal Church

01/27/2022

St. Wilfrid's is presently in hiatus because of Covid upsurge, but we plan to return to regular services within the next few weeks. We remain a faithful people and pray for a quick end to this reason for keeping ourselves away from each other.

10/15/2021

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03/04/2021

Lent is a time for contemplation, prayer. and coming to terms with our place on the never dying, unconditional love of God for all of us—as Tomu T said, “God bless us every one!” Pit problem is we don’t know how to accept blessing😊. Do, we concentrate on our guilt. Did ingent is the time to look forward to the joy of thr Resurrection with hope rather than dwelling on past brokenness. Remember, no matter who you are or what evils you think you have done, you are still being held dear in the heart of God. Then you can arise being the Easter sun as new, born again as the child of God you are.

06/20/2020

Church outdoors on Sunday at 11 am. We will celebrate the Liturgy of the Word. Proper precautions for safety are practiced including social distancing. Join us as we worship. Park in front and come to the cemetery to find us. There will be a chair for you and a safe, healthy, and sincere welcome for you. And, once you come, no matter how many times or how few, you are a member of our family from now on.

05/12/2020

Morning Prayer Sunday at 11:00 am. Get a chair from the parish house and join us outside near the cemetery. The weather should be cooperative, and we can celebrate God’s wondrous sunshine. Hope to see you then.

03/26/2020

If you would like to have n outdoor morning prayer early on Raster morning, please call and let me know. Attendance at the service will by state decree limited to ten people. If enough of us would attend, we will hold enough sessions for everybody to take part—beginning at 7 am and beginning again at 7:45 and again at 8:30. We will meet, weather permitting, in the courtyard between our buildings. I hope we will be able to celebrate Easter this way. The service will need to be in the open air and have the compulsory number of feet of social distancing.

Remember we can worship in groups of ten. We have been prohibited from the Eucharist until at least the end of May. Be safe, germ free and hopeful; and keep us all in our prayers. The peace and comfort of the Lord be with you. Dan+

03/24/2020

Unfortunately, our bishop has decreed that Episcopal churches will not hold services until the END of April. That eliminates both Palm Sunday and Easter (April 6 & the next Sunday Easter) masses. I hope to have Morning Prayer outside on Easter—maybe sunrise—as we did last year in the courtyard between our buildings. I think we can maintain proper distance then. Maybe even two services outside: not Eucharist, but at least Morning Prayer I hope so anyway.

Until we know more, stay safe and healthy. God bless and protect us as we live from day to day. Dan+

03/21/2020

Today, March 21, the beans and rice program was extremely well used by people who truly neede the foodWe deplenished our supply of goods other than reserve beans and rice. If you would like to donate non-perishable foods, you can bring them to the church on Wednesdays between one and three in the afternoon. Simply leave them at the door to the parish house if you don’t want to enter the building. We did disinfect the area after th distribution today. Tha MMI you in advance for your generous support. DanT.+

03/17/2020

Bishop Sloan made this observation on his convention address in February, “ Hete’ whatI think. I think the church has for far too long made far too much about sin and judgment and fear and dread and not nearly enough about grace and love and mercy. I think that God loves all of the children of God and invites us to do the same.
Most of the harm is done by Church; but Godpels are full of examples of God’s love for God’s children lik the man who was born blind, the leper’s, the Gyresene madman the hemorrhaging woman, the rich young man, Peter, James, John, Andrew, Philip, Matthew, Zacchaeus, Mary Magdalene, Mary and Martha, Lazarus, the crowd at the sermon on the mountain, and all children. Jesus turned no one away. That was not Religion. It was the love of God shown through the Son.
It was not until after His Ascension and the work of the Apostles that Religion became dominant. Rules were made; doctrines developed; and the idea of guilt and relief of guilt became important. Religion as institution began organizing hierarchies, punishing ‘sinners’ by expulsion until they earned their way back into the Church. Remember what Jesus told sinners? Go and don’t do it again. He did not say, “Go and pay for your sin.” That was not Church.
Church is a building. “church” is the people who love God and practice loving. The church is the movement toward becoming beloved and understanding the peace that comes with knowing God’s love.
The lesson I have learned from our retiring bishop is that it is the church, the people, not Church, the institution, that should be our home. Remember the most simple description of God is “God is love.”

03/15/2020

No services until Palm Sunday because we hope to aid on ending the coronavris. We WILL distribute our beans and rice packages on Saturday, 31 March, at the usual time 9-11 am.

May God give us th patience and calm to abide this pandemic of disease and fear.

01/30/2020

Sunday, February 9, pot luck luncheon after church to honor Drs Susan and Sam Stevenson who are moving to Tennessee, Susan on February 12, and Sam at the end of the current term at MMI. We will surely miss them.

01/28/2020

There are differences between John’s Gospel and the Gospels of Mark,Matthew, and Luke. Each of them is written for a specific specific audience—a particular community of believers The first three are written, it seems, as evangelical trying to convince the target community to become faithful followers of Christ highlighting actions as well as teaching.

John is aimed at particular community of believers for whom the depth of spirit seems to be important. Emphasis on understanding spirit focuses on apothetic teaching using Word as the operative symbol for Jesus’s identity as the incarnation of God. The language reminds readers of the language of ancient Eastern writing with the exception of “knowing” the identity of God in Christ that goes beyond conscious understanding: the Word made flesh is a non-logical truth. John minimizes sense perception to emphasize spirit, the Advocate for believing. John is the latest Gospel and is sometimes associated with the gnostic tradition, but surely is aimed at contemplation similar to eastern practice. John offers another path to belief and faithfulness.