Holy Apostles

10/30/2024

ONLINE PRAYER VIGIL FOR ELECTION DAY
Join us Tuesday, November 5 for a virtual prayer vigil as we pray for our neighbors and our nation. Prayer will be posted on this page every hour from 6 am through midnight. In addition, at least one member of the Center community will be holding our nation in prayer each hour. If you'd like to sign up for a shift, email [email protected] or comment below with the time you will be praying and we'll add you to the schedule.

08/14/2024

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06/26/2024

Congratulations to The Rt. Rev. Sean Rowe, who is elected as Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church.

05/26/2024

Happy Trinity Sunday!

“God for us, God alongside us, God within us.”

~Fr. Richard Rohr

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05/08/2024

Thursday, May 9, 2024, is Ascension Day on the Episcopal Church calendar.

05/05/2024

At a special parish meeting today, members of St Ann’s (Woodstock), St Mary’s (Crystal Lake), and St Paul’s (McHenry) voted overwhelmingly to consolidate into a single parish with two campuses. The new parish, Trinity Episcopal Parish, McHenry County, will form on January 1, 2025.

Thank you to all voting members who cast their ballots early or today in person! Thank you also to all who made today’s gathering possible.

Please continue to pray for us as we seek to be a community which follows Jesus in new ways, while also honoring our past.

“Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever.”
Ephesians 3:20,21

04/21/2024

Happy Good Shepherd Sunday!

This icon holds a lot of meaning for me. It was painted for a Parish that is dear to my heart, The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Athens, Ohio. The people of the parish were an integral part to our mission, work, and community life of the Good Earth Farm were I lived and worked for six years. The community at the farm grew and gleaned produce for the many food pantries in the area, inviting anyone in the Athens community to join us planting, harvesting and delivering food, to collecting eggs, feeding pigs and searing sheep.

There is much to be said about the conversations and connection that comes from weeding an entire row of carrots with a complete stranger. Our real work was about communion. We hoped our work as farmers brought us a greater connection to Creation and the marginalized. We hoped to be a sign for the dignity of work and the reverent use of resources. We wished to balance the roles and responsibilities that uplift the common good while respecting the individuals need for creativity and autonomy. To be signs of peace while working side by side.

Most Shepherds in Jesus’ day like the ones at his birth would spend weeks with their flock out in the wilderness. The Shepherd would even drink the milk of the ewes for sustenance. He needed them as much as they needed him. The Good Shepherd is not a sign of a Jesus who rules over us, or telling us what to do, or of our almighty benefactor. Rather, it is a sign that the world-like humanity-is a place where God communes with us. The relationship of humanity to creation isn’t just to ensure its flourishing, or prevent its extinction or worse, consume our allotted share of it and dominate it. It is to bring creation into the relationship of praise and thanksgiving, and see it all, and our very lives, as gifts.

To all of my fellow Good Earth Farm companions, The Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, The Diocese of Southern Ohio, to the many groups, organizations, Congregations, lone individuals, interns, and priests who joined us on our way.... Thinking of you today.

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04/18/2024

Quote of the Week:
“Someone counted all the Hebrew words in Psalm 23, and it turns out that the word smack dab in the middle is “with.” The center of the Psalm, the center of the life of faith, is “thou art with me.” This bears homiletical reflection. Sam Wells gifted us with his marvelous ‘A Nazareth Manifesto’, in which he explains that God isn’t primarily a fixer or protector or guarantor of this or that which we think we must have. God’s identity and purpose? Simply to be with us. Jesus is Emmanuel, God with us, not God fixing us or God doing favors for us. This then redefines our mission. We don’t do for others or fix others; we are called to be with them“
~James C. Howell

This Icon of the good shepherdess is for all of the Priests, spiritual directors, counselors, elders, deacons, nuns, God-parents, Mothers, and Sisters; it is for all of the women who have been WITH me on my journey.

Commissioned by Rev. Sharon Swanson for her Daughter. The Shepherdess stands on the cliff faced shore of Shetland Scotland.

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03/31/2024

Happy Easter!! He is risen!! Alleluia!! He is risen indeed!! Alleluia!!!

03/31/2024

Happy Easter