by Staff | May 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
VBS is a safe, welcoming environment where children learn about Jesus, teenagers learn valuable life skills, and adults step into mentoring roles… But the St. Michael’s program doesn’t stop there! We encourage campers and volunteers to look beyond themselves to the...
by Staff | May 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
I am one of the very few Jewish children who survived living in Nazi Germany. I was born in Berlin in 1940. Amazingly, Germany, pre-Hitler, pre-WWI, was a most intellectual, liberal, vibrant cosmopolitan country. The envy of many. Its population counted Jews among its...
by Staff | May 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the...
by Staff | Apr 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Worship is personal. One person’s worship of God can aide or inspire another’s, but it cannot take it’s place. In the end, our calling to worship the Lord God is ours alone to fulfill. It is God’s providence that the ancient forms of Christian worship which we have...
by Staff | Apr 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
For the past few years a relationship has been building between St. Michael’s by-the-Sea and a group called Disciple Christian Motorcycle Club (DCMC). You might recognize a few of these new faces as they attended the Palm Sunday Mass, and last August...
by Staff | Apr 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Day by day I meditate on the goodness of God. We know that love is the fulfilling of the Law and that by revealing his triune being God revealed that He is Love. Yet the love of God, like the love of man, is terrifying if it is not the love of one who is good. Love...
by Staff | Apr 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
Each week, after we receive communion, we give thanks to Almighty God for assuring us “that we are very members incorporate in the mystical body of thy Son” (BCP 339). This phrase reflects a fundamental belief of the Catholic faith. St. Paul reminds us...
