Greetings Far Flung Flock!! I have stolen this fun and alliterative moniker from a friend. It seems very apropos for this little community of followers on Emmanuel Voices. You are 190 subscribers strong and counting! Some of you sit in our pews but far more of you hail from hither and yon. We hope you…
“We seem to have an unlimited supply of Christmas carols, and people are writing new birthday songs for Jesus every year, but Advent hymns are scarce. Many churches observe this pre-Christmas season with candles and Christmas music, but the focus of Advent is expectation. We anticipate the miracle of Christ’s incarnation, often by revisiting the…
Boo!!! October is Halloween season. Fall/Autumn — this is my very favorite season. It’s getting darker and colder. In church terms, Ordinary Time is fading as we approach the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows.🎃👻☠️ Hallow-ed be thy name – we pray — on the first of God’s seven days each week. Hallow-ed is a…
For those who don’t know me, my name is Thomas Cruz, my family and I have been going to Emmanuel since 2014. You have probably seen me doing many different things from Crucifer, handbells, streaming, and reading. I was given the opportunity to speak to you today a couple months ago. One day after I…
Someone came back from sabbatical a couple of weeks ago, and SURPRISE — he got a tattoo!! Before church, a few of us gathered outside Chuck’s office were eager to hear his story. What? When? Where? Why? And he told his tale, which I will leave for him to share. And then, one by one…
I love Gospel passages that start with an apostle trying to impress Jesus with their awesomeness. You know they’re going to walk away from that interaction with their mind blown, and those are my favorite stories. Our Gospel reading today is one of those. So, we have Peter, who approaches Jesus knowing full well that…
Good morning everyone. It’s good to see all of you. It’s good to be back. Can’t thank you all enough for the time away, and can’t thank you enough for welcoming me home. I’ve been asked to use this time to sort of bring everyone up to speed on where I’ve been the past four months during my…
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about prayer – why we pray and how we pray. Many of us started our prayer lives as children, kneeling at the side of our beds at night with “Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I…
“You are Peter and on this rock, I will build my church”. Imagine for a minute how Peter might have felt when Jesus made this statement. Might he have been excited, proud, and perhaps a little anxious? That seems like a lot of pressure, doesn’t it? To be honest, I have listened to the Gospels…
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And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies to be a reasonable, holy and living sacrifice unto thee. I confess to you that these are my very favorite Eucharistic words in the Book of Common Prayer. And I know they are seldom heard because they come from Rite…
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