Saint Simeon's By The Sea

09/08/2026

Returning Again and Again

From: Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the Spirit
Lord, give me faith, faith in your endless mercy, your boundless forgiveness, your unfathomable goodness. Let me not be tempted to think that my sins are too great to be forgiven, too abominable to be touched by your mercy. Let me never run away from you but return to you again and again, asking you to be my Lord, my Shepherd, my Stronghold, and my Refuge. Take me under your wing, O Lord….


Reflection Question: When have you experienced the most power times of returning to God?

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
- Ephesians 1: 3

09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day To All ❤

"I would like to remind everyone, especially governments engaged in boosting the world's economic and social assets, that the primary capital to be safeguarded and valued is man, the human person in his or her integrity: 'Man is the source, the focus and the aim of all economic and social life'." (Pope Benedict XVI, Charity in Truth [Caritas in Veritate], no. 25, quoting Second Vatican Council, The Church in the Modern World [Gaudium et Spes], no. 63)

09/07/2026

"The economic sphere is neither ethically neutral, or inherently inhuman or opposed to society. It is part and parcel of human activity and precisely because it is human, it must be structured and governed in an ethical manner." (Pope Benedict XVI, Charity in Truth [Caritas in Veritate], no. 36)

09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day

09/05/2026

Sunday Eucharist - 15th Sunday After Pentecost
September 6, 2026
10:00am

09/03/2026

15th Sunday after Pentecost - September 6, 2026

For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.” Mt. 18-20.

09/03/2026

People of Hope

From: The Road to Peace: Writings on Peace and Justice

Henri J.M. Nouwen

We are called to be a people of hope. Together, we can face our despairs – personal, global, or ecclesiastic. Together, too, we can find the risen Lord, emerged from his tomb of despair, ready once again to love us first. In embracing us, Jesus gives us the hope we need to find and live the life he has hidden in us and in the world.


Reflection Question: How will you connect to the hope Jesus gives you so that you can fully live the life God has hidden within you?

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
- Hebrews 13: 5

09/02/2026

https://theotherjournal.com/2023/12/loving-the-world-by-leaving-it/

By early 2022, I found that words exhausted me. I longed for a fast from the collegiate world’s wearisome menu of producing and consuming words. It also seemed that my ability to hear God was lost in incessant, deafening verbiage. Like Elijah in 1 Kings 19, who on Mount Horeb looked for God in the...