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Reflection: The Rev. Andrew Benko

It Ain’t Over ‘Til the Holy Spirit Sings (The Great 50 Days of Easter)   Celebrant   Alleluia, Christ is risen! People        The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia!   With these words, proclaimed in darkened churc...

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Allen Junek

Friends in Christ, Next week we set our eyes towards Jerusalem. Since at least the 4th century, Christians have marked the week before Easter with special devotions and observances of our Lord's Passion. You may be c...

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Christine Brunson

Dear Friends in Christ,     In 2022, I took a group of parishioners from my curacy placement on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. While there, we made the walk to Calvary (Golgotha). This is the believed place of Jesus’...

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Katie Leuba

Dear Holy People of God,   We are a people worshipping and connecting with the infinite, placed in the transient, at a time of great change and massive information. How are we to thrive and not be distracted by minu...

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Christine Brunson

My Friends in Christ,   It’s an ancient Christian tradition to receive spiritual direction from monastics—from those who live the hidden, religious life. Throughout human history, seekers of something more have turn...

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Allen Junek

"A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." Psalm 51     Dear Friends in Christ,   We all know the pain of heartbreak, and Holy Scripture has much to say about broken hearts. You may be surprised t...

Reflection: The Rev. Allen Junek

"St. Thomas day, St. Thomas grey / The longest night and the shortest day / Please to remember St. Thomas’ day."    Tomorrow is noteworthy because it is both the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle and the longest night...

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Dr. Andrew Benko

“See: I am coming very soon.” (Rev. 22:20a) This morning I turned the page in my breviary to a surprise: a reading starting at James 1:1. The Daily Office Lectionary, a two-year cycle of scripture for reading at Morn...

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Allen Junek

Friends in Christ,  "That it may please thee to make wars to cease in all the world; to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; and to bestow freedom upon all peoples, We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord." (...

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Katie Wright

October has come to an end and we are rolling into November with Thanksgiving on the horizon and Christmas preparations. As a congregation we have had our Ingathering Sunday for stewardship and are doing the follow up...

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Christine Brunson

My Friends in Christ, I've been thinking a lot about labor recently. Laboring to have this baby is at the forefront of my mind... as much as laboring in the field with you all, the fabulous people of St. Matthew's. Y...

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Christine Brunson

My Friends in Christ, I've been thinking a lot about labor recently. Laboring to have this baby is at the forefront of my mind... as much as laboring in the field with you all, the fabulous people of St. Matthew's. Y...

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Dr. Andrew Benko

Feast of Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and Thomas Cranmer, Reformers and Martyrs, October 16th. During this past week, the church celebrated the feast day of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, bishops and martyrs, an...

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Allen Junek

Dear Friends in Christ,    Our gospel lesson for this Sunday (Mark 10:17-31) has me thinking about a cartoon in the New Yorker that I saw several years ago. In it, there are two businessmen seated in comfortable arm...

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Christine Brunson

My Friends in Christ, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." Anne of Green Gables was one of my favorite book series growing up and I often find myself returning to the pages of Avonlea when I’m s...

St. Matthew's Day

Clergy Reflection: The Rev. Christine Brunson

My Friends in Christ, I often hear how the youth of the church are the future of the church. They certainly are. Also, they are the present of the church. The youth of St. Matt's are already active in the life of thi...