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Lenten reflection #3: Care in the OEF Community
Waiting. Waiting is not always an easy thing to do. Waiting can be hard. Both seasons of Advent and Lent are about waiting. This season of waiting seems stuck on pause as in, are we not still in Lent 2020. And Advent seems to still be with us as well.…
Lenten reflection #2: Care in the OEF community
As mentioned by Br. Juniper in the first of our (the OEF Council’s) Lenten reflections, this year’s theme of our convocation is care and harm, specifically in this little, dispersed community of ours. Being dispersed as we are does make this concern difficult to address, to say the least. Let’s…
Lenten reflection #1: Care in the OEF community
This the first of five Lenten reflections on care and harm in community, the theme of our convocation at the end of June. One of my favorite quotes about community came from an Episcopal Sister of the Transfiguration: “Community life is like the sandpaper on the wood, polishing each of…
Concerning Events in DC
The events of last week in Washington D.C. have left many of us without words to express our thoughts and feelings. Many of us are heartbroken, many of us are angry and many of us are asking a lot of questions. We the Council of the OEF are writing this…
Advent 2020 #4 Reflection
REFLECTION ON THE FINAL WEEK OF ADVENT I suppose I should title this the last half-week of Advent. The faster I go, the behinder I get. I just noticed that our Advent calendar said 15 December (if only…) and remedied that! Sunday’s reading, the Anunciation, has been discussed, researched, preached,…
Advent 2020 #3 Refelction
As Brer Bruce James reminded us last week, it’s been a tough year for waiting. We’ve been waiting for lockdowns to end; fires to be extinguished; losses to be grieved; vaccines to be developed; social and ecological justice to be established and embodied; campaigns to be made and votes to…
OEF & Pallottine Renewal Center Tree Planting Ceremony
On Sept. 15th of 2020 our donated tree was planted at the Pallottine Renewal Center, in Florissant, MO. Our tree was one of about 17 trees planted that day. The Oak trees are replacing the old and sick Oak trees that line the driveway that leads up to PRC. These…
Advent 2020 #2 – An Advent Reflection
On this first Sunday of Advent, I am called to reflect a bit.I have to admit that this political season has been hard for me. I am weary of it all. The pandemic, racism, … too, of course. At my Episcopalian church, we are reading “A Weary World: Reflections for…
Advent 2020 #1 – Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving
Fr. Sully, the rector of my parish, has lost his mother-in-law and his father to the COVID virus. He says he is haunted but who among us who are strong and present will be gone next spring because of the virus. It is a very hard time with illness suffering…
Chapter 2020 Reports
Please take time to read and review the reports of the servants to the Chapter.