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Settling Down for a Long Winter's Nap? Not so fast....
posted on Dec 16, 2020 This fall, Ted and Wendy Pearre (Buildings & Grounds Committee) led groups of Dublin School Work Gangs over four weekends in cleaning up the grounds. Many truck loads of leaves and an unusual crop of acorns were hauled away by Dublin School's Dir...
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Consider a Gift to Emmanuel Church
posted on Dec 15, 2020 As 2020 is waning, there is great hope for 2021! Don't you feel it?
Hope for the minimizing the threats of COVID-19 because of the vaccine and people protecting themselves with masks, social distancing and washing their hands;
the ret...
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A Prayer During Pandemic
posted on Dec 15, 2020 God of compassion, be close to those who are ill, afraid or in isolation. In their loneliness, be their consolation; in their anxiety, be their hope; in their darkness, be their light; through him who suffered alone on the cross, but reigns with ...
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Waiting with Expectation and Hope: Advent 2020
posted on Dec 14, 2020 Music for the liturgical season of Advent as we wait with expectation and hope for the coming of Christ, selected by Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological Seminary (vtslifelong.org), “ Waiting with Expectation and Hope: A Spotify A...
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Reverend John Branson's Christmas Message
posted on Dec 14, 2020 O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel..... This well-known Advent hymn (#56), often sung as each of the four candles of the Advent wreath are lit, marks the days in our countdown to the Nativity of our Lord. Emmanuel -meaning, Go...
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132nd Season of Services Complete
posted on Sep 27, 2020 The eleven services of 2020 have been archived on our website .
For all who participated and attended, thank you for "learning" with us as we adapted to a virtual presence. You will hear from us over the course of the fall, winter and spring ...
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On the Bookshelf
posted on Sep 27, 2020 Two new books of interest to Episcopalians and others have recently been published. If you are starting to build up your fall and winter reading list consider:
With Sighs Too Deep for Words...Grace and Depression by Bishop Robert Hirschfel...
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Reverend John Branson's Late September Encouragement
posted on Sep 27, 2020 I recently received notice of a series of zoom events sponsored by one of the “tall steeple” churches of New York City . The series was focused on presentations by some of the top theologians and theological faculty of such univers...
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A Note from the Ellen, Senior Warden
posted on Aug 31, 2020 This coming Sunday will be our final service for 2020. Can you believe it?! It would be remiss if we ended our time together without showing gratitude in this, the 132nd year for Emmanuel Church, as one of nine seasonal chapels in the Episcopal ...
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John Branson's Weekly Encouragement August 31, 2020
posted on Aug 31, 2020 Readers of the E-pistle this summer of 2020 will note the time we have given to poetry this August. In so doing, we have hoped to “spark” an interest in “reading between the lines”: seeing, sensing, embracing depths wi...
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