Reflection for Sunday, September 23, 2018 – Mark 9:30-37 The Collect for this Sunday beautifully sets the tone for the passage from Mark’s Gospel we’re about to hear. With the busyness and demands of life weighing us down, our corporate worship will begin with this poignant plea we would “not be anxious about earthly things, but to…
[ Read More]– A column by the Rev. John E. Clark There’s “An Army of Love” in Belize City, Belize, Central America. The Christian healing movement of the Order of St. Luke is alive in Central America. The year 2017, one mid-June morning, I woke up from a vision of ministering in Belize. God spoke to…
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Learning how to live like Christ is a fun as well as an empowering thing for middle schoolers who attend a “New Beginnings” retreat at Camp Wingmann. For more than three decades, youth have learned to grow in love for themselves, for others, and for Jesus. That trend will continue on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,…
[ Read More]Hundreds turned out to watch the Rev. Katie Gillett take the final step into priesthood late last month when she was officially ordained into the Sacred Order of Priests at Christ Church Parish in Pensacola. A former member of St. Mary of the Angels Episcopal Church in Orlando, Gillett and others close to her estimated…
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Reflection for Sunday, September 16, 2018 – Mark 8:27-38 This section of Mark’s Gospel is in many ways a turning point in the text. Up until this moment, the true identity of Jesus seems to be elusive to those most associated with him; the disciples, the religious leaders, and the crowds. “They have been slow…
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Reflection for Sunday, September 9, 2018 – Mark 7:24-37 From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre.[a] He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, 25 but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and…
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APOPKA – The Church of the Holy Spirit was a vision of nostalgia this summer – thanks to its inaugural Classic Car Show. Church of the Holy Spirit (CHS) welcomed 58 show cars to its first Classic Car Show on Saturday, August 4. Car owners and enthusiasts enjoyed the display of classic cars and trucks,…
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Once again, there are plenty of potential deacons and priests exploring a call on their lives in the Diocese of Central Florida. And that’s pleasing news to leaders. The Rev. Canon Dr. Justin Holcomb, Canon for Vocations, announced that approximately 35 people attended the 2018 Conference on Ministry (COM) recently at Church of the Messiah…
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The Gospel is alive, well and being heard in Orlando as evidenced by a nice turnout for a special service this week, a “Labor Day Worship Celebration.” Approximately 35 people from numerous area churches attended the special service on Wednesday, Aug. 29, at First Presbyterian Church’s Reformation Chapel in downtown Orlando, according to the Rev….
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The last year has been a whirlwind of activity, to say, the least for Father Andrew Petiprin. Fifteen months after being called to serve as Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee in Nashville, the former St. Mary of the Angels Episcopal Church, Orlando, rector is returning to Orlando in September to…
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