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Resurrection
This is the central event, and concept, in Christian theology. The events of Holy Week, leading up to Easter Morning, are the highest holy days of the Christian year.
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By Gina Gaudet |
3/25/21 06:22 PM
As I write this, we are just a week into Lent. Oddly, sometimes it feels like we are into our second year of Lent, as we still live with a degree of restraint and enforced quiet contemplation of some …
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By Gina Gaudet |
2/25/21 06:10 PM
Well, if it isn’t one thing, it is another. It has been one difficult year for many people, and their churches.
Our little church has had to close its doors; half of our beloved congregation …
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By Gina Gaudet |
1/28/21 05:34 PM
This weekend we’re decorating for Christmas: Putting up and lighting a tree, hanging stockings, etc. We don’t decorate outdoors because the landlord, who lives next door, is an eccentric …
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By Gina Gaudet |
11/20/20 10:10 AM
Last month, we lost a beloved pastor, patriarch and prophet with the passing of Ernie Loreen.
He was larger than life; a big man with a big presence, a big voice and a big, big love for people. …
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By Gina Gaudet |
10/30/20 11:50 AM
The gospel for last Sunday (Matt. 16:13-20) offered new understanding of the identity of Jesus. The story occurs outside a temple built to honor Caesar Augustus (the first of the Caesars of the Roman …
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By Gina Gaudet |
8/28/20 11:46 AM
We are starting to come back to life. People are out enjoying the sunshine. Restaurants are filling outdoor spaces, stores are re-opening. We still feel limitations, but our wings are drying and …
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By Gina Gaudet |
6/26/20 02:53 PM
As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to dominate the news, upend our lives and distract us with daily updates on numbers of cases and deaths, the consequences of re-opening perhaps too soon or too …
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By Gina Gaudet |
5/29/20 09:16 AM
This year we observed the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Could anyone in 1970 have imagined that despite half a century of Earth awareness, education, dedication and activism, we would stand at the …
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By Gina Gaudet |
5/1/20 09:06 AM
How is everyone doing? These are times that can test our resolve, our patience, our generosity, our souls. We at Trinity Church maintain our sense of community through social media, calls and cards. …
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Gina Gaudet |
3/27/20 10:10 AM
By Gina Gaudet As we enter the season of Lent, let’s look again at fasting. Fasting as in deprivation, as in “giving up” something. Just what I want to think about as I finish off a …
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2/28/20 09:20 AM
By Gina Gaudet The time of year is coming upon us when we look deeply at the self: the day-to-day self and the higher self (the “soul-self” or spiritual self). We call this time of year …
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1/31/20 09:38 AM
By Gina Gaudet Just as we see the yearly passage of time as a cycle through natural seasons and created annual holidays, so goes the liturgical church. The church year actually begins with …
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11/22/19 10:09 AM
By Gina Gaudet While perusing an online liturgy/sermon source, I found a lovely essay on the lesson of fall colors: part-science, part-spirit and fully, deeply exquisite. It’s slightly …
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10/25/19 09:21 AM
By Shirley Cannon “Now is the only time you own. Always we begin again. Every time is the first time.” So begins the adult exercise classes that take place every Monday and …
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9/26/19 04:02 PM
By Gina Gaudet “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away … and the one who sat upon the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things …
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8/30/19 10:01 AM
By Gina Gaudet A few weeks ago, Father Chuck Cannon spoke eloquently on the parable we know as the “Good Samaritan.” One aspect of the story he highlighted was the response of the …
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7/26/19 09:33 AM
By Lucy Williams The spirit moves! And, very often it moves through music, particularly this summer when the air is alive with divine inspiration! We love the quiet of Point Roberts, but …
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6/28/19 09:22 AM
By Gina Gaudet Death is all around us. It is the cycle of nature. Plants die. Animals die. We die. But we do so, most of the time, with some degree of consciousness. In my early 20s …
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5/31/19 09:36 AM
By Gina Gaudet It is tempting to say that Easter is over. The church sees Easter as the culmination of the Lenten season, so in a way, it is an ending. Not so! The Easter story takes …
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4/26/19 10:05 AM
