We deconstructed Sunday School at All Saints this year and tripled our attendance! We did more than that – we eliminated Sunday School altogether and moved our early Mass to 9:00 a.m. giving us exactly 30 minutes to get ready for the 10:30 a.m. mass. But we have not eliminated Christian Education because we moved [...]
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DECONSTRUCTED SUNDAY SCHOOL
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SENSING/CENSING OUR SALVATION
“If Christ, the humble one, were to approach the beasts of prey as soon as their eye rests on him, their wildness is tamed and they come to him and accompany him as their master, wagging their tails and licking his hands and his feet. For they smell from him the smell which spread from [...]
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Ash Wednesday Sermon
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven…For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Lent begins with the remembrance of our Lord’s temptation in the wilderness. Every Lent we hear the same old stories that have encouraged Christians since ancient days. A demon is cast out of a little girl; another [...]
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SHRIVING
Turn thou us, O good Lord, and so shall we be turned. Be favorable, O Lord, be favorable to thy people, who turn to thee in weeping, fasting, and praying. For thou are a merciful God, full of compassion, long-suffering, and of great pity. Thou sparest when we deserve punishment and in thy wrath thinkest [...]
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