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There are many avenues you can take to deepen your individual spiritual knowledge and commitment. To aid you on your journey, we invite yo to explore the various resources listed to the left and read the reflections offered below.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, January 08, 2008 )
 
Thank You, God, for Hands PDF  | Print |  E-mail
David Mathewson, St. John’s-Grace, Buffalo

Do you ever think about hands? I do. As an organist, the smooth, reliable functioning of my hands is essential for making the music which is at the center of my life. Somewhere in my mid to late twenties, when I began to slowly develop tendonitis, arthritis, and carpal tunnel syndrome, my hand became an almost daily concern.  
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Theology doesn’t have to be dry and obscure PDF  | Print |  E-mail

The Rev. Steven Metcalfe     Calvary Church, Williamsville

Two important feast days in the life of the church occur in May. Pentecost comes on May 11 and Trinity Sunday rolls in the Sunday after. While these don’t enjoy the popularity of Easter or Christmas, they both point to singular aspects of our life of faith as Christians.

Last Updated ( Monday, May 05, 2008 )
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“Tune in” to the Holy Spirit PDF  | Print |  E-mail

Stacy Lampman, St. Andrew’s, Burt

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.  Against such things there is no law.   Galatians 5:22-23

I think about the Holy Spirit in my life like a car radio station that is not completely tuned in. I am trying to hear but there is static and it fades in and out.

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A Man Ahead of his Time PDF  | Print |  E-mail

The Rev. Deacon Polly Bowen   St. Matthias’s, East Aurora

The 2nd year Education for Ministry classes are currently studying the writings of St. Paul. This is a man who has come down to us carrying a great deal of baggage—ideas picked up over the centuries and handed on to us.

Last Updated ( Monday, April 28, 2008 )
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Bad Things Do Happen PDF  | Print |  E-mail

Paul Schwartzmyer   St. Peter's, Eggerstville

Mondays are very busy in pharmacies, and mine is no exception. Ten percent of my business for the whole week arrives between 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on a typical Monday. So when the phone rang at 1:50 p.m. on this particular Monday . . .

Last Updated ( Monday, April 28, 2008 )
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Christ is Risen – Alleluia! PDF  | Print |  E-mail
The Rev. Canon Barbara J. Price, St. Peter’s Church, Eggertsville
Now that little green shoots are tentatively poking their heads out of the ground, it’s a bit easier to use the language of resurrection. In the ancient days, the worship of many different deities in a variety of cultures
Last Updated ( Tuesday, April 22, 2008 )
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The Good News of Easter PDF  | Print |  E-mail

The Rev. Eric Williams, rector     St. Luke's, Jamestown, NY

A lot of what we celebrate at Easter has nothing at all to do with Jesus. The name Easter itself comes from the Anglo-Saxon fertility goddess Eostre who was associated with rabbits because of their famous ability to reproduce.

Last Updated ( Monday, March 31, 2008 )
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Promises & Fig Trees PDF  | Print |  E-mail
Leon Mozeliak, Interim priest     St. Paul's, Harris Hill

One of the promises each of us vowed at our baptism is "[I promise to] continue in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of the bread and in the prayers." As we live in the day-to-day realities if life, how do we stay true to this promise made to God?
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Holy Week in Real Time PDF  | Print |  E-mail

Jack Marshall, rector   Christ Church, Lockport

The message of Easter is wonderfully varied. Each Christian of every denomination and those who are not aligned with any church can glean the renewal of Easter. The man, Jesus of Nazareth, defeated and destroyed in death finds his life renewed and restored as

 

 

 

Last Updated ( Wednesday, March 05, 2008 )
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P.S. I Love You PDF  | Print |  E-mail

by Rob Peterson, member of St. John's Grace

Using death and resurrection as metaphor, we might see how there may be many deaths and resurrections occurring throughout our lives. We might see a firing from employment, divorce, failure at school, moving from an old familiar community to a new one, overcoming a bad habit, conquering an addiction and experiencing the death of a loved one as examples

Last Updated ( Tuesday, March 04, 2008 )
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Teach us to Pray

A group of parishioners at St. Luke's, Jamestown studied different methods of prayer and then made a series of presentations to the congregation on what they had learned. 

Read their online booklet Lord, Teach us to Pray.

Listen to podcasts of the presentations. 

Other Resources

A Catechism of Creation: An Episcopal Understanding

Through Christ all things were made. "A Catechism of Creation" helps us think about what that means. Prepared for study in congregations by the Committee on Science, Technology and Faith, it is written in Q&A format, like the Catechism found on pages 843-862 of The Book of Common Prayer.



Come & Grow

Theological Education for All

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The Episcopal Church and Visual Arts - An online exposition of art to enhance your spiritual journey.

Forward Day by Day  - A daily inspirational reading to consider on your journey of faith.

Presiding Bishop’s Message - Reflections penned by the Most Rev. Frank Griswold, Primate of the Episcopal Church USA
From the pen of the Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church USA.

The Daily Office - Words of prayer and worship for every day of the year based on the calendar of the Episcopal Church.

The Book of Common Prayer - The standard worship book of the Episcopal Church.

A Little Bible Handbook - An easy guide to some of the Bibles most interesting and meaningful passages and suggests ways you might pursue personal Bible study.

Chapter & Verse Bookstore
- Located at Trinity Episcopal Church, 371 Delaware Avenue in buffalo, this progressive Christian Bookstore stocks Bibles, Prayerbooks and a wide variety of progressive Christian literature by authors such as Marcus Borg and others. Open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. Phone: 716-852-6515. Phone orders accepted.