Tag Archives: Episcopal Church

Easter Vigil Meditation

Posted on 9 April 2023 by Bill Paine

At this year’s Easter Vigil service, I and two others were invited to give testimonies/meditations on what Christ’s death and resurrection meant to us. The following is mine, lightly edited for textual (as opposed to verbal) presentation. When Mother Broderick … Continue reading →

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I vow Poverty…

Posted on 19 September 2022 by Bill Paine

On Friday, September 30th, I will profess my vows as a brother of the Franciscan Community of Compassion.  They are based on the traditional vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, adapted to the charism of the FCC.  In the time … Continue reading →

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Don’t Wait

Posted on 30 July 2012 by Bill Paine

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.  —Ezra Pound Today, the Episcopal Church commemorates William Wilberforce (1759-1833), an English politician dedicated to abolishing slavery.  Introducing a motion in Parliament to abolish slavery in 1788 … Continue reading →

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Sunday Evensong

Posted on 4 March 2011 by Bill Paine

St. Luke’s Church in Forest Hills (my Episcopalian parish) is “burying the alleluias” this Sunday, March 6th, with a choral evensong service at 4:00pm.  I will be one of the scripture readers. In many Christian liturgical traditions, all uses of … Continue reading →

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Physical and Spiritual

Posted on 31 March 2009 by Bill Paine

Today the Episcopal Church celebrates John Donne, Priest, Poet and Preacher (1573-1631). Image via Wikipedia Donne is a fascinating character whose poetry, to the modern reader, occupies a disturbingly ambiguous middle ground between the erotic and the spiritual, between eros … Continue reading →

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