2016-04-04 04:14
This article in the New York Times is a must-read!Is the drive for success making our children sick - NYTimes ArticleCreditLale WestvindSTUART SLAVIN, a pediatrician and professor at the Sai… Read More
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2016-04-04 03:00
From Brother Curtis Almquist of the St. John the Evangelist Society in Cambridge, MA (our fair city)...a message of hope in the Resurrection! I had the pleasure of spending time with… Read More
2016-04-04 02:37
“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.”—John Edgar Wideman Read More
2016-04-03 21:55
Happy Easter!Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the… Read More
2016-04-03 21:28
In the spiritual garden of our livesby Charles LaFond“Tenemos” is a Greek word originally referring to the cultivated land that wrapped around the temple – a set-aside bit… Read More
2016-03-31 03:55
We brought nothing into the world, nor can we take anything out of it - 1Timothy 6:7 Read More
2016-03-31 02:26
In the cross of Christ man’s work was now judged; by his resurrection the new life had now been introduced into history…. The new life was not simply a promise and a hope b… Read More
2016-03-17 13:53
Let Evening ComeBY JANE KENYONLet the light of late afternoonshine through chinks in the barn, moving up the bales as the sun moves down.Let the cricket take up chafing… Read More
2016-03-01 03:58
"this fragile earth, our island home" Read More
2016-02-12 12:56
Lent: Seeking Simplicity - Thomas Merton's Hermitage Read More
2016-02-12 04:13
Lent: Seeking simplicity - Thoreau at Walden Read More
2016-02-10 13:37
Humility as the early monastics describe it has nothing to do with passivity, nor anything to do with deliberately cultivating a poor self-image. Being a doormat is not being humble, nor is… Read More
2016-02-10 11:44
Henry Beston's The Outermost House Read More
2016-01-26 12:27
God’s call is mysterious; it comes in the darkness of faith. It is so fine, so subtle, that it is only with the deepest silence within us that we can hear it. And yet nothing is so dec… Read More
2016-01-16 04:01
2016-01-16 03:47
From Presiding Bishop Curry:“Many of us have committed ourselves and our church to being ‘a house of prayer for all people,’ as the Bible says, when all are truly welcome… Read More
2016-01-05 00:07
My essay on "Finding God in the World" was posted at the National Association of Episcopal Schools "Commons" blog today:Finding God in the WorldThe Rev. Peter M. CareyJanuary 04, 2016My Epis… Read More
2016-01-01 01:00
UlyssesBY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSONIt little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal law… Read More
2015-12-30 04:28
Parenting in the Age of AwfulnessChildren are immersed in a culture that stokes disrespect. Here’s how to instill some civility.ENLARGEPHOTO: GETTY IMAGES/VETTABy LEONARD SAX… Read More
2015-12-28 15:14
Christmas Autopsy: 5 Thoughts about the Death of ChristmasDecember 26, 2015 by Frederick Schmidt 0 CommentsThe war on Christmas has become an annual topic of conversation.This… Read More
2015-12-26 00:32
St. John Chrysostom’s Christmas HomilyBEHOLD a new and wondrous mystery. My ears resound to the Shepherd’s song, piping no soft melody, but chanting full forth a heavenly hymn. T… Read More
2015-12-22 01:25
Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesu… Read More
2015-12-15 14:32
Take our minds, and think through them.Take our lips, and speak through them.Take our hearts, and set them on fire with love for thee.What we know not, teach us.What we have not, give us.Wha… Read More
2015-12-11 02:04
Thomas Merton - 31 January 1915 - 10 December 1968My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I… Read More
2015-12-01 13:26
Advent is a season of preparation; preparation for newness, for new life, for new hope, for a new outlook, for God breaking into our lives in new and unexpected ways. The book of Revel… Read More
2015-11-30 14:46
Feast of St. Andrew, the great bridge-maker and "introducer" of Jesus to others!Almighty God, who gave such grace to your apostle Andrew that he readily obeyed the call of your Son Jesus Chr… Read More
2015-11-30 11:53
Video Advent Calendar - Day 2 - Meet Brother Geoffrey Read More
2015-11-29 11:49
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great hu… Read More
2015-11-29 00:56
"This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness." —Mary Oliver Read More
2015-11-28 15:02
“It is the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible denial… Read More
2015-11-23 02:41
Prayers from the service of Compline Be our light in the darkness, O Lord, and in your great mercydefend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for thelove of your only Son, our… Read More
2015-11-22 12:20
Open my lips, O Lord, * and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.Create in me a clean heart, O God, * and renew a right spirit within me.Cast me… Read More
2015-11-20 12:32
Luke 10:25-37New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)The Parable of the Good Samaritan25 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus.[a] “Teacher,” he said, “what must I… Read More
2015-11-19 16:18
Upper Division ConvocationThe Rev. Peter M. CareyBerkeley Preparatory School, Tampa, Florida19 November 2015Let us prayGrant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every h… Read More
2015-11-18 13:16
We have places of fear inside of us, but we have other places as well—places with names like trust and hope and faith. We can choose to lead from one of those places, to stan… Read More
2015-11-16 15:37
By Jean JullienAlmighty God, pour out your grace and peace upon all those who suffer today. For those who are reeling from the attacks in France and Lebanon, and all those throughout t… Read More
2015-11-11 14:52
Today is a day to remember and honor the veterans of the United States of America and also a day to remember the Armistice (end of fighting) on the 11th month of the 11th Day in 1918 when th… Read More
2015-11-10 17:28
In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. ~Psalm 95:4 Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
T.S. Eliot reads his poem, Ash WednesdayAsh Wednesday, by T.S. Eliot Because I do not hope to turn againBecause I do not hopeBecause I do not hope to turnDesiring this man's gift and th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
2006-06-07 11:16
Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
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