Dear Holy Comforter,

Thank you so much for such a beautiful Rogation Sunday, when we prayed for God’s blessing on the earth and our work. I so enjoyed blessing all the signs of our common work under our altar, which reminded me of this collect which we pray in our Compline service:

O God, your unfailing providence sustains the world we live in and the life we live. Watch over those, both night and day, who work while others sleep, and grant we may never forget that our common life depends on each other’s toil; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Dear Holy Comforter,

This Sunday, May 10, is Rogation Sunday—the day when we ask God’s blessing on our common life and our labors. Please bring an item that represents your work for our opening procession and the blessing of our labor. (This short article is a helpful introduction if you’d like to learn more about Rogation Days.)

Dear Holy Comforter,
On Sunday we’ll have our very first parish meeting, a chance to look back on the past four months since we began offering weekly services, to give thanks for God’s gifts to us, and to look ahead to where God is calling us.

Table Blessing

To your table
you bid us come.
You have set the places;
you have poured the wine;
and there is always room,
you say,
for one more.

Dear Holy Comforter,

Thanks be to God that Easter isn’t just one day but an entire season in the life of the Church; an entire season between Easter Sunday and Pentecost in which we get to contemplate all the dimensions of what Jesus’ death and resurrection mean for us as his followers.

This is the paschal feast,
the Lord’s passing from death to life:
so cries the Spirit.
No type or telling, this, no shadow.
Pasch of the Lord it is, and truly.