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...
by Staff | Mar 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
I have four nieces and being an aunt is the best! I read to them, push them on the swings, take them out for ice cream. While I love just hanging out with them, I often feel this nagging responsibility to teach them – to say please and thank you, to share, to read,...
by Staff | Mar 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Fear is an all too familiar experience these days. Simply turning on the TV for 5 minutes is all the time it takes for my mind to be filled with fear. However, the truth is, that if I look really hard I can find almost anything to be afraid of. Fear is the opposite of...
by Staff | Mar 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
You may already know that St. Patrick wasn’t Irish. He was from a part of Roman Britain that is current day Dumbarton, Scotland. Patrick was 16 years old in about the year 405, when he was captured in a raid by pirates and became a slave in what was then radically...
