June 2013 Ripples of Faith Newsletter

June 2013 Ripples of Faith Newsletter
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May, 2013 – A Seminarian’s Letters Home

To the membership of Circle of Faith Parish: Greetings to you all from Pennsylvania! This will be my last article in which I can call myself a student at LTSP. My class and I graduate on May 21, and scatter to the four winds the following day. Many of my classmates will soon receive their first calls to parishes, and will be ordained in the next few months. My path will be somewhat different....
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April, 2013 – A Seminarian’s Letters Home

To the membership of Circle of Faith Parish: Greetings to you all from Pennsylvania! Welcome to what is known in Christianity as the Great Fifty Days. From Easter to Pentecost, we live in the season of Easter. Alleluias are everywhere, as is the joyful music of resurrection. White and gold adorn our altars, our vestments, and our churches. The paschal candle burns every Sunday throughout this...
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March, 2013 – A Seminarian’s Letters Home

To the membership of Circle of Faith Parish: Greetings to you all from Pennsylvania! It is an honor and a privilege to be asked to write for you each month, as we grow and learn together, becoming the new area parish that we are. Circle of Faith, we call ourselves. When I hear the word circle, my mind automatically returns to the Episcopal congregation where I worked for a year. During the...
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February, 2013 – A Seminarian’s Letters Home

To the membership of Trinity and Waverly Lutheran Churches: Greetings to you all from Pennsylvania! January 6 has come and gone. From here on, we are going our separate ways. After worshiping together, lifting up the relationship our congregations have shared for many years, we are now following different paths into the wilderness of the unknown. Much will change. It is good to take a bit to...
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