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Giving

Catherine Smith2020-05-05T19:14:58-03:00Categories: Reflections, Rural Ministries, Uncategorized|Tags: church, community, Congregation, Faith Community, Giving, Offering, Online worship, Pandemic, Physical Distancing|

I love this tiny hand touching the heart of things. I can almost imagine the pavement softening touched by these fingers. It made me think of [...]

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A Word for the Darkness

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T11:59:16-04:00Categories: Epiphany, Sermons, Uncategorized|Tags: community, darkness, death, Epiphany, grief, light|

Epiphany always begins with the wisemen. Faithful studiers of the night sky their attention is caught by a wild star,a star not on any of their star [...]

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The Heart in it

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:00:39-04:00Categories: Prayers, Uncategorized|Tags: community, Connection, Holy Week Tuesday, Hope, Notre Dame Cathedral Fire, prayer, Vigil|

Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. (Photo: Thibault Camus/AP) No shape of wood or even [...]

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Broken-open community

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:10-04:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Brokeness, community, courage, healing, heart, Maritime Conference, vulnerability|

  As I reflected on the heft of my heart, sitting in a room with so many others, each of us on our own journey, our [...]

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Hallows Eve

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:59-04:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: All Saints, blessing, community, Hope, Inclusion, time|

Coming to this all hallows evening we hear the call to pay attention to the permeable fabric of time. It is a potent time in which [...]

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To Know We Are All the Beloved John 20:19-31

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:14-04:00Categories: Prayers|Tags: Beloved;, community, identity, world|

Holy One You come into the locked rooms of our lives and you speak into our fear and our doubt and our indifference You tell us [...]

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Prayer Written Hiddenly

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:15-04:00Categories: Words|Tags: community, Dmin, prayer|

Words shared with DMin Online Collegium I have been captivated for several years by the idea of prayer written hiddenly. I have read about this in [...]

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Prayer for Beginning a Meeting

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:35-04:00Categories: Prayers|Tags: community, prayer|

Holy One, We come, each carrying our own story our own vision our own hopes and our own purpose all to be threaded into the great [...]

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