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Rector's Reflection: The Love of Law or the Law of Love, June 1, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This Sunday in our gospel reading from Mark, we will hear Jesus and his disciples being accused by the...
Jun 1, 20243 min read
Rector's Reflection: The Language of Love and Reconciliation, May 18, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost, ending the Easter season and beginning a long season known in the...
May 18, 20243 min read
Rector's Reflection: Not Just Spectators: Rector’s Reflection May 11, 2024, May 11, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Although, as we can’t be reminded enough, Easter is a season that lasts 50 days, there is a notable...
May 11, 20243 min read
Rector's Reflection: The Concerto of Praise and Wonder, May 4, 2024
Beloved members of St. Martin’s, Last night, despite being caught in a 45-minute- long traffic jam on the interstate, we were able to...
May 4, 20242 min read
Rector's Reflection: Life Unending, April 13, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This Sunday’s readings have contained many words of comfort and strength for me in the last few days. We...
Apr 13, 20243 min read
Rector's Reflection: Open, Not Empty, March 23, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, In the epistle we will hear after our Palm Procession this coming Sunday, we will hear St. Paul’s...
Mar 23, 20243 min read
Rector's Reflection: Passion and Compassion, March 16, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Here we are already at the 5 Sunday in Lent. As we head toward the passion story of Christ in the next...
Mar 16, 20243 min read
Rector's Reflection: Snakes On A Plain, March 9, 2024
Beloved members of St. Martin’s, We get a pretty weird first reading this Sunday, which is then referenced in our gospel, so there seems...
Mar 9, 20244 min read
Rector's Reflection: The Heavens Declare, March 2, 2024
The Psalm for the 3rd Week in Lent is one of my favorites: Psalm 19, which expresses the way all creation, especially the heavenly bodies...
Mar 2, 20243 min read


Rector's Reflection: Living Into The Covenant, February 24, 2024
In the second Sunday in Lent, we again have our first reading from the Book of Genesis from the Torah, and we again are led to consider...
Feb 24, 20243 min read
Rector's Reflection: The Promise of the Rainbow, February 17, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Our first reading this week is from Genesis 9. As chapter 9 begins, the flood has ended, and Noah and...
Feb 17, 20243 min read
Rector's Reflection: Enlightened, February 10, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, In the reading from 2 Corinthians that we will hear this Sunday, we will hear Paul talk about the things...
Feb 10, 20242 min read
Rector's Reflection: Everyday Miracles, February 3, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Our gospel this week features Jesus praying and performing healing miracles. He cures Simon’s...
Feb 8, 20242 min read
Rector's Reflection: A Case for Love, January 27, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This last Tuesday, some of us throughout the diocese and all around the country attended the theatrical...
Jan 27, 20244 min read
Rector's Reflection: Called Into Relationship, January 13, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Our readings this weekend speak of being called by God into deeper relationship. In the gospel portion...
Jan 20, 20242 min read
Rector's Reflection: Praying for Enemies, January 20, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, If you really pay attention to the gospel, there inevitably will be a teaching that is especially...
Jan 20, 20243 min read
Rector's Reflection: January 6, 2024
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Today, January 6, is the official Feast of the Epiphany. Epiphany, meaning “manifestation” or...
Jan 6, 20241 min read
Rector's Reflection: New Beginnings, December 30, 2023
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, Here we are bumping up against the end of a calendar year, and the start of another. 2024 stretches...
Dec 30, 20232 min read
Rector's Reflection: Partners and Participants, with God’s Help, December 23, 2023
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, This weekend we have a flurry of activity here at St. Martin’s. On Saturday at 505pm and Sunday morning...
Dec 23, 20232 min read


Rector's Reflection: Talent Show, November 18, 2023
Beloved Members of St. Martin’s, All great stories, all great adventures, are centered around a question, as Matt Linton notes. In To...
Nov 18, 20232 min read
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