Charge your battery whenever you can. It never hurts to plug in and top off your power reserves because you never know what life will throw at you next. So why do we ignore this when it comes to our spiritual lives? Why do we push ourselves until our souls are completely drained and we have nothing left to offer ourselves, the people around us, and God?
Lea Perretta
On June 11 at 9:30 am we will celebrate the third year of our “Living Up to the Rainbow” worship service. Each year in this special worship service we celebrate the diversity of God’s people and we affirm the sacred worth of all persons, not determined by their sexual orientation or gender identity, but by their identity in Christ. Through music and liturgy, we affirm the expansive love that God has for all persons and God’s call for us to do the same.
This service is marked with rainbows because the rainbow is a deeply significant symbol in the Bible. In Genesis, the rainbow represents the covenant of love God initiates with Noah after the flood:
12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. (Genesis 9: 12-13).
Lea Perretta
A Lenten Reflection - Key Events of Holy Week
Since Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent we have been journeying with Jesus and his disciples to Jerusalem for the events of Holy Week and Easter. The events of Holy Week recount the Passion Narratives in the Gospels that describe the suffering (passio in Latin), death and burial of our Lord Jesus Christ. This Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week with Palm Sunday and with it our Lenten journey slows down and affords us a more detailed look at the last week of Jesus’ earthly life.