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Outreach Programs / Woodstock Food Pantry
Woodstock Pantry E News Brief December 30, 2023
posted on Jan 2, 2024 Stranger Among Us December 30 2023
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Weekly Rector's Note
Celebrating Christmastide
posted on Dec 28, 2023 Dear Saints, Our celebration of Christmas continues! Observing Christmas as a season gives us time to reflect on the Incarnation, or God taking human form. We celebrate how this happened in the birth of Jesus and beyond. As Richard Rohr writes,...
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Weekly Rector's Note
And the Word became flesh and lived among us
posted on Dec 28, 2023 The mystery of the Incarnation
is not merely a baby born once upon a time,
but that it is the nature of God's Word
to become real in our world.
The Word isn't a thing ,
hanging by itself out in space,
but a Word to us, with ...
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Committed to Racial Justice & Allyship / Social Justice & Advocacy
Social Justice & Advocacy Column December 26, 2023
posted on Dec 26, 2023 Christ With Us Christ is always with us, always asking for room in our hearts. But now it is with the voice of our contemporaries that He speaks, with the eyes of store clerks, factory workers, and children that he gazes; with the hands...
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Weekly Rector's Note
Christmas Is Almost Here!
posted on Dec 22, 2023 Dear Saints, It was another great pageant this last Sunday! Thank you to everyone who participated. It was especially fun to have the goats in costume and the remarkably well-behaved white peacock. This Sunday, we will have our combined Adven...
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Committed to Racial Justice & Allyship / Social Justice & Advocacy
Social Justice & Advocacy Column December 20, 2023
posted on Dec 20, 2023 Always Christmas We're always waiting to see Spirit revealing itself through matter. We're always waiting for matter to become a new form in which Spirit is revealed. Whenever that happens, we're celebrating Christmas. The gifts of incarna...
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Woodstock Food Pantry / Outreach Programs
Woodstock Pantry E News Brief December 17, 2023
posted on Dec 18, 2023 Rising Tide of Demand & Joyous Response December 17 2023
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Weekly Rector's Note
Live Animal Pageant & Christmas Quilt Show
posted on Dec 15, 2023 Dear Saints,
This Sunday, we have our annual Christmas Pageant, complete with a live goat and -- if all goes well -- a peacock! Children and adults who would like to participate can get their costumes starting at 9:50am in the Parish Hall. Cos...
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Committed to Racial Justice & Allyship / Social Justice & Advocacy
Social Justice & Advocacy Column December 12th
posted on Dec 12, 2023 Joan Chittister, Murshid Saadi Shakur Chishti, and Rabbi Arthur Waskow, writing from their traditions of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, believe we all share equally in God's image, even amid our joint history of violence. Today, the var...
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Outreach Programs / Woodstock Food Pantry
Woodstock Pantry E News Brief December 10, 2023
posted on Dec 10, 2023 Our Community December 10 2023
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