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We've contributed 91 bricks toward our 100 brick goal. Thanks to everyone for contributing. We'll be making a final offering for this effort on Saturday!
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 Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. (John 15: 10-11) Love (agape) is the foundation for life with one another in a beloved community. Christian agape at its best is a benevolent, self-sacrificing, on-going, joyful, "love feast." It became ever clearer to me at last Sunday's annual meeting how much St. James' members love their church and one another. We'll continue our Epiphany festivities this weekend as we gather with one another Saturday afternoon to celebrate our new shared ministry at St. James. It is serendipitous in some ways that we are manifesting Christ-like love for one another on the Feast Day of  Martin Luther ,as the Season of Epiphany draws to a close. We'll gather once again at 5:30 pm on Shrove Tuesday for our Pancake Supper. Our outward and visible signs of God-given graces will then become less glorious for a season. On Ash Wednesday (Feb. 22nd), we start a 40-day pilgrimage through Lent. We will, much like Jesus, be led by the Holy Spirit into a wilderness-time of penitence, prayer, fasting, and disciplined devotion. Christ's love for us and our love for one another won't be any less real during Lent.  Nonetheless, let's thankfully "crank it up" this weekend and next Tuesday as we continue to celebrate the abundant Christ-like love that resides here. It's the sort of joyous love that we and the people around us need more than ever. 'See you this weekend and next week too. Blessings Along The Way, Jim+ |
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DATE:Saturday, Feb. 18th
TIME: 4:00 PM
LOCATION: St. James Episcopal Church - Westwood
MORE: Music, multimedia, sharing of gifts, communion and more! All followed by a terrific reception in Lu Dunn Hall with delicious food and fun music!
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. (You can find more of Maya's quotes here.)
St. James is a loving Christian community. Members and guests alike feel appreciated here. I said a little bit about this in last Sunday's sermon. Our growth edge(s) reside(s) in loving God just a little bit more each day. Our beloved Christian community can make even more people feel welcome and whole by making them feel like they are important to us sacramentally and personally, regardless of who they are, where they have been, and what their present situation may be. It's a large task - this Christian Gospel. It's a Day By Day Christian discipline. .... one that I pray we'll sing loudly on Saturday.
 Maya Angelou also said "You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything." Such love is the sort of love Jesus the Christ shares with us in Word, Sacrament, and Spirit. May we abide in Christ's love and act upon Maya Angelou's compassionate wisdom
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The Rev. Jim Strader - Rector 3207 Montana Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45238 |
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