Categories: Archives 2023, Concerts

Mascaro and Ditlow

TGIF, October 23

Veronica Mascaro (flute) and Kristin Ditlow (piano) perform a lively collection of Folk, Country, African American Spiritual, Broadway, Christopher Caliendo, and David Mairs songs. Sanctuary doors open at 5:15 pm and the concert begins at 5:30. The concert is free with donations accepted.

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Categories: Archives 2023

Blessing of the Animals

October 8

VIDEO. During the October 6 Worship Service, a special A special portion of the service was devoted to blessing of the animals. It begins at approximately Minute 16 of the video of the full service with a responsive reading for the call to worship and then proceeds to the blessings themselves.

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Categories: Letters 2023

October 7, 2023

Dear Saints in Santa Fe and other far-off places, Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ. A blessing of the animals. Renowned Celtic teacher and writer John Philip Newell, who helped us in the formation of our Wednesday Celtic Evensong service, often tells the story of a woman he met during an Iona pilgrimage week.  She was around seventy years of age and over dinner she told John Philip about what happened to her some fifty-five years earlier when she was in church with her family.  A dog wandered into the sanctuary and moseyed up the center aisle and as it got closer to the front of the church it sniffed the air around the altar, then turned around and walked out.

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