Tuesday, December 5, 2023
From the beginning, communication in A.A., has been no ordinary transmission of helpful ideas and attitudes. Because of our kinship in suffering, and because our common means of deliverance are effective for ourselves, only when constantly carried to others, our...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
In Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Bill wrote: “Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and the people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn’t quite belong.” It...
Monday, September 11, 2023
by the Rev. Seamus Doyle “A man who persists in prayer finds himself in possession of great gifts. When he has to deal with hard circumstances, he finds he can face them. He can accept himself and the world around him.” As Bill Sees It 293. ...
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
The Daily Reflection for August 1 is a quote from the Big Book: “The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.” When I first read that I knew what it meant, or so I thought. After all, I had spent seven years in a seminary and I ought to know all about, or a...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
by Deacon Jay Albert Deacon Jay Albert at Interfaith Prayer Service for the Homeless While serving at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Lakeview, New Orleans, as my first assignment, I looked for an outreach program that would involve the laity. I wanted a program that...
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Dear friends, Who’s my neighbor? This is a question we will explore these holy 40 days using Episcopal Relief & Development’s Lenten meditation series. We give you this resource for daily prayer, for use in your churches, or in whatever way fits best....
Thursday, February 16, 2023
by the Rt. Rev. Shannon Rogers Duckworth During the installation of a rector, a variety of gifts are given to the priest. These include such things as oil, bread, wine, a stole, a prayer book, and water for baptism. Representatives from the parish present these as...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
by the Rt. Rev. Shannon Rogers Duckworth “Please take care of yourself, and each other.” This is the signoff used by Lester Holt at the end of every broadcast of the Nightly News. It is a simple phrase, but one that carries tremendous weight and...
Friday, December 31, 2021
by the Very Rev. Stephen Crawford, rector of St. Mary’s, Franklin, and member of the Gaudet Fund Committee. Frances Joseph Gaudet is a Saint. It really is a marvelous thing that we would recognize this. It was a hundred years ago (1921) that the Episcopal...
