Dear Friends,
This morning I had to have the snow-plow come and dig me out. there was a foot of snow when I arrived and I got about 8 inches more in the storm that dumped all the snow on Washington DC. I liked the nice break and a taste of winter which was a great reminder of why living in Florida is not so bad especially in the winter. After a week long retreat I must admit I am eager to be back home and I feel energized by my time in study and prayer.
This Sunday, February 14th 9:00-10:15 AM we will have a Valentines Breakfast! We will not have any classes this morning as this was a way to resolve a conflict regarding our space at Canterbury needed by a previously booked group on campus. More so however it offers us a chance for fellowship. Join us in the fun. To make a reservation please email me by 12:00 noon on Wednesday (2/10) jon@incarnationoviedo.com To get us thinking Valentines Day - I got this from our Senior Warden Jeff Woodside and share it with you (maybe you could include it in a valentine to someone)
For God so loVed the world,
That He gAve
his onLy
BegottEn
SoN
ThaT whosoever
Believeth In Him
Should Not perish,
But have Everlasting life.
I am testing a new feature for our website regarding our Sunday readings - take a look and let me know what you think. CLICK HERE
The following week or so will be busy...
We have another chance for fellowship in a Mardi Gras Party on Shrove Tuesday February 16th 6-8pm at Canterbury. This is a family fun event with great "cajun food" activities and crafts, Burying the Alleluias and more. Make your reservation by emailing Sherise Nelson.
We begin the season of Lent on ASH WEDNESDAY, (February 17th with 2 services 7am and 7pm in the Chapel at Canterbury) Though we have a left in Epiphany I can see Lent on the horizon. Two things to consider for your Lenten Discipline... We will be showing the video series... The Centrality of the Cross on Wednesday Evenings 7pm (starting February 24th) in the Chapel. This is a dynamic and would say from personal experience life-changing series by our good friend Mike Atkins. I hope you will make an effort to engage with it over the next few weeks.
Bishop Howe will be leading a Lenten retreat at Canterbury on March 5 & 6. You can register on line at the Canterbury Website.
Lent is a season offering an opportunity to go deeper in our relationship with God, to examine our lives and to echo the heart-cry of the Apostle Paul from Philippians...
"...that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:10-14
May this be our heart-cry as well and we don't have to wait for Lent to begin to walk this path.
in the mission,
Father Jon
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