And a sign with a beautiful icon! Our Saviour will have a work day on Saturday to clean and pull weeds to have the church and the grounds spic and span for the service on Sunday.
What we are about
The mission of the Church is to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ.
The Church pursues its mission as it prays and worships, proclaims the Gospel, and promotes justice, peace, and love.
The Church carries out its mission through the ministry of all its members.
Our Mission Prayer
Blessed God, you make all things new: Guide us as we seek your will for a new community of Word and Sacrament, that it may be leaven for the world's bread, and wine of delight for hearts in need; a gathering strong for service and glad in praise; and a people listening and responding to your presence in their midst; through Jesus our Redeemer and steadfast companion. Amen.
I pray for laborers in the
Love the sign, how I wish I was there to help redecorate...that´s a specialty of mine (of course you´ve gotta love bold colors but New Mexico does have a painted desert and all).
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Leonardo
Isn't it great?!!!
ReplyDeleteI wish I could be there.
ReplyDeleteI know you all will be with us in spirit, and that counts for a lot! You cannot imagine - well, yes, you folks can - how much all that love and prayer holds us up. Tonight at the healing Eucharist service when it was my turn to be prayed for there were prayers for strength and courage. I need both! Y'all help in that immensely.
ReplyDeleteLeonardo, you can probably see how drab the church and hall are in the background. Tropical colors would not work in the New Mexico desert, but I am going to do what I can with banners and other liturgical art. I do NOT believe in dull church - on any level. I believe we should come to church with anticipation and excitement.
The southwestern palette of various tans and shades of muted rose with dusty teal and splashes of turquoise work well. For now, we are white, white, white. As my coworker said years ago: "Everybody's gotta be something."
Sin embargo, pienso en celebrar la Misa en español.
Thanks for the lovely post, Mimi!
Oh, and thanks especially for the prayer for worshippers in the church on Sunday. We really need those!
ReplyDeletePaul, it's a labor of love, my offering to Our Saviour.
ReplyDeleteMay God bless and increase them, especially as this Sunday coming is Christ the King Sunday!
ReplyDeleteSplendid!
ReplyDeleteSR, he knows, and he has promised to be there. "Where two or three...."
ReplyDeleteLOL. SR, you gave me a chuckle, and Mimi is right (isn't she always?).
ReplyDeleteTropical colors? How could you think such a thing from me?...I was more in the mood for a array of Chichicastenago on Market Day...knock your socks off when you enter the space (with richly, yet slashily, embrodered kneelers) and wall colors that could change with the ¨seasons...banners? Now you´re talking!¨ Don´t beige yourself into oblivion...somewhere over the rainbow is best.
ReplyDeleteWell, there's tropical and there's tropical. I was not thinking of a pastel rainbow. More like bougainvillea and bird of paradise flowers and rain-forest greens. But the reality is that I need to visit Chichicastenango on Market Day.
ReplyDeleteBut what I do best is banners, preferably in the saturated colors of dupioni silk of which I have many yards waiting to be turned into something.
The exterior of the church is, alas, a grayish off-white.
Little steps. We are starting at zero.
Both BA and Iberia have been losing hard cash during the downturn as businesses
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