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Sunday, March 29, 2020 | The Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year A

In his last encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, Pope John Paul II discussed spiritual communion. He said, The Eucharist thus appears as the culmination of all the sacraments in perfecting our communion with God the Father by identification with his only-begotten Son through the working of the Holy Spirit. With discerning faith a distinguished writer of the Byzantine tradition voiced this truth: in the Eucharist “unlike any other sacrament, the mystery [of communion] is so perfect that it brings us to…

Update from Fr. Michael

At the Vestry meeting in January, our Vestry established the Vision Committee. This committee is led by Fr. Michael and Michelle Cullum, and Mary Lou Hayes, Bryan Dolan, and Pat Moore also serve on the committee. The purpose of this committee is to craft a vision and mission statement for the church as well as to clearly articulate our values so that our vision, mission, and values can help us chart a path forward into the future that we believe…

Dear brothers and sisters, PAX! In a few days, we will receive the Church’s call to a period of preparation for the commemoration and celebration of the passion, death and resurrection of our Savior.  Our last Synod was an invitation to holiness. What better opportunity than the time of Lent to work on our holiness and our conversion and to re-establish our relationship with Christ and the community of faith?  Ash Wednesday confronts us with our humanity, with our misery.…

Let me introduce you to Greta. Greta is the daughter of Andrew and Joanna Hayes (Andrew played James the Greater in the Living Last Supper last year), who live in Littleton, CO, and the granddaughter of John and Mary Lou Hayes, members of St. Dunstan’s. Greta is two years old and has undergone a complicated surgery to disconnect the hemispheres of her brain. The surgery was necessary to stop her from having seizures upwards of fifty times a day. The…