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Welcome to the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church podcast. Here we will share our thoughts, voices and prayers. St. Paul’s is a progressive community of faith with ancient roots. Join us in Sunday worship 10:30 AM at 201 E Ridge Street in Marquette MI. All are Welcome. You can find out more about St. Paul’s at their website
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Well, 1.23 is kind of a whimsical date, but the days end up being kind of serious and somber. A couple of accidents with the space program, and the sinking of a military transport ship with huge loss of life. So, if I had it to do over, I'd maybe try to pick some lighter days. There is the birthday of Robert Burns and the possibility of a Burns supper - there's a link on the website for how to do it! As always, this material is available in printed form at wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com.
WE look at the scripture lessons for this Sunday - Psalm 19: The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God; a description of an early worship experience from Nehemiah - it comes after the people finish rebuilding the wall around Jerusalem. They hope the wall will keep them safe from external threats - Ezra the Priest reads to them how they can be safe from internal threats. Then the story of Jesus preaching in his hometown. It sounds like it's going well, but the story is continued to next week - we'll see. We end with some words from Martin Luther King Jr.
Some days from the church and world calendars - St Anthony, Peter's Confession (that's where he says Jesus is the Christ, not what he might have had to say after the cock crowed!), a couple of martyrs and a couple of musicians! Thomas A Dorsey who wrote Precious Lord, Take My Hand. Nice in the week we remember Martin Luthur King Jr. And a beginning of something I'm calling a thesaurus poem!
Some thoughts about the scripture lessons for this week. A nice passage from First Corinthians about getting activated as Christians, which resonates nicely with Jesus at the wedding in Cana. And a prayer to sum it all up.
Bishops, monks, missionaries from the church calendar this week, and some interesting days from the world calendar. Jan 14 has connections among Churchill, Roosevelt, de Gaull, and Humphery Bogart; and Severus Snape and Lewis Carroll. Weird day.
Some thoughts on lessons for the Epiphany and for the First Sunday after - the Baptism of Jesus. There's a couple of nice lessons from Isaiah, a rant about Ps 29, and then a few thoughts on The Wise Men/Kings and Jesus' baptism. A good prayer from 12 years ago...
Kind of re-starting this series after taking a break for a few months. In this episode we look at some of the days from the church calendar - such as The Epiphany - and some of the days from the earth/world calendar - the birthdays of JRR Tolkien and Elvis for a start. If you are more into reading than listening, this is also available at wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com. And we will hopefully be back on Thursday with a look at the scripture lessons for Sunday.
Job and Jeremiah - usually we think of them as a couple of downers, but we get some of the brighter passages from them both. And Psalm 126 anticipates the joy of return - from exile? From pandemic? Blind Bartimaeus brings us to the end of one section of Mark's story.
We start off October with Woody Guthrie, Edgar Allen Poe, St Francis, Bridgit of Sweden, and Peter Muhlenberg - not the Muhlenberg County Muhlenberg - but we end up the first week with John Prine, so we'll sing it anyway!
Man and Woman, Job and his wife, Jesus and the disciples and the children - and a haiku and a prayer.
Ok - we're back with some of the days of the week. Jean Sibelius, George RR Martin, The Phantom of the Opera, and Nintendo. And Sunday is Pancake Day. On the website, there is a recipe.
A couple of odd lessons for this week - Song of Songs and Psalm 45. But still, the Bible would be a whole lot less interesting without them! And we hear Jesus tell how sin and evil does not have to do with what goes into a person, but rather what comes out from them. One writer puts it, not what goes into the stomach, but what comes out of the heart.
From the church calendar, we notice Rose of Lime, first person born in the Americas to be canonized by the Catholic Church, And King Louis of France - the only French king to e made a saint. August 24 is waffle day; for literary birthdays this week we have Ray Bradbury and Edgar Lee Masters. There's also something called "The Great Moon Hoax" - fitting for a week with the full moon shining through the windows!
We're back after three months - with thoughts on this Sunday's lessons. Solomon brings the Ark into the Temple with a lot less fuss then when David brought it to Jerusalem. Joshua charges the people to choose this day whom they will serve. And John wraps up the chapter about Jesus is the Bread. We close with a prayer acknowledging the evil and suffering in the world, and God's wonderful love and faithfulness.
The Sunday after Pentecost is Trinity Sunday. We start off wondering why we don't get the Creation Story each year for Trinity. And then move on to the call of Isaiah and John 3, including "God so loved the world", although we don't really spend time on that verse this go round!
We're back after a week or so off. Today's Pentecost - with a nice piece by Madeleine L"Engle on love; next Sunday is Trinity - there's a prayer. And May 24 - John Wesley, Bob Dylan, "Mary Had a Little Lamb", and "What Hath God Wrought!". All that and more -
That last post should really have been 4.27 - I guess I was a little bit late getting it out and ended up dating it for the Sunday, not the posting date. Oops. This week we have Saint Monica and a Prayer for Mothers. We learn about the 27th amendment to the US Constitution, and remember Pete Seegar. We end up the week with the Piano Man - Billy Joel.
A look at the scripture lessons for May 2. A lot of questions this week. We close with some words on joy and love from Eberhard Arnold, and then a portion of the Celtic Beltane Blessing. May 1 is Beltane -
April 27 looks at a couple of women - Christina Rossetti, a poet, and Zita, an Italian saint. We have a quiz about Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - do you know who she was? We hear about Duke Ellington and there is a link to him playing music inspired by Shakespeare, a link to Muddy Waters singing I Got My Mojo Working, and one to Willie Nelson singing How Great Thou Art. And then we reflect on May Day. As always, if you want to follow the links, they are at https://wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com.
It's the fourth Sunday of Eastertide. We get the story of Peter and John explaining how they had healed or saved or man that was lame, this time to the authorities who had arrested them. Are they simply concerned about a man being healed, or are there more significant issues under the surface? And then the 23rd Psalm, and Jesus talks about being the Good Shepherd.
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