Articles – Poems – Announcements
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Articles and Announcements
Estación de la creación. Somos Agua Viva Lamento: Semana 3
“¡Estoy temblando de miedo! Y tú, Señor, ¿cuándo vendrás?” (Salmo 6:3). ¿Estamos llamados a lamentar cómo tratamos la creación de Dios, cómo afectamos negativamente la vida del pueblo de Dios debido a nuestro mal uso del agua? Cuando nos lamentamos, sentimos o expresamos una profunda tristeza, dolor o aflicción. Expresamos nuestro pesar por la manera en que hemos tratado al pueblo de Dios y al agua de Dios. A través del lamento, también podemos expresar en la fe cómo no hemos hecho lo que deberíamos para proteger la creación y pedir perdón, corrección y orientación. Un lamento bíblico es [...]
Poems
A Breathless Moment
It is a breathless moment when, coming to the edge Of what confounds me, I pause and ask myself if I have courage To trust completely and risk failure, Sometimes I have faltered, Turned back into the Wilderness of self-contained existence and stumbled, But when I listen to the beating of my heart I hear the voice of My Creator calling me to step outside myself, And I am always held safe and secure. by C.C. Johnson Diocese of Lexington Parish - St. Raphael the Archangel
Province VII ECW Zoom Conference – Sept 12 2020
All women in Province VII are invited to this conference. Province VII, also called the Province of the [...]
Healing in Yarn with the Diocese of Chicago
Chaplain Micheal at Rush Hospital Chicago Bishop Anderson House provides spiritual care training to lay persons as [...]
Episcopal Women’s Ministries Fall Retreat
September 25 and 26 on Zoom - 2020 Living our Call as Disciples - a Virtual Retreat - Led by the [...]
St. Asaph’s Prays through Epidemic Times
July 19, 2020 Rev. Joy delivers Homily July 19, 2020 Service in Pavilion July 20, [...]
St George Mask Makers Respond To An Urgent Call for Help
Haven House, a domestic abuse shelter in Leesburg, FL, had an urgent need for face masks for the 40 [...]
Triennial 2021 Status Update
I wanted to bring you all up to date on the status for Triennial 2021. Basically at this [...]
St. Francis Episcopal Church Sews Masks for Local Hospital
When shortages of PPE were reported throughout the nation as the pandemic took hold in mid-March, the women of [...]
ECW Province 5 news – New Website
I am pleased to inform you that the ECW of Province 5 has a new website! You may reach [...]
St. Gregory’s ECW Awards Scholarship
Three years ago the Episcopal Church Women of St. Gregory's Episcopal Church in Boca Raton, Florida started a scholarship program [...]
Announcing our New Website
Over the past three months we have rebuilt our website. We've included a lot of upgrades that allow us [...]
Province II continues to serve in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic
Jennifer Kenna, Province 2 Representative National Board of Episcopal Church Women As I write this article, I hold in [...]
Nebraska Province VI make Covid-19 masks and hold Zoom meetings
Lynn Fitzgibbon, Province V Representative, sent a note on what their group at St. Martha's in Papillion are doing: [...]
Living with COVID-19
Being confined at home and keeping physical distance from dearly loved ones as are our families, friends and faith [...]
Women Helping Women
The Episcopal Women’s Caucus and The Episcopal Church Women are pleased to announce a joint initiative to support our [...]
Encouragement
Encouragement can be another word for hope, belief, even for love. When used by different people in our lives [...]
Words Matter
Here, as Advent draws to a close, is a reflection about Mary the mother of Jesus. Written by the [...]
Persistence
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He [...]
Appreciation
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son…" John 3:16. This Bible passage was [...]
Compassion
Merciful God, look with compassion upon the perpetrators within the family of violence upon women, girls and boys. Heal and restore relationships [...]
Resilience
RE – SIL – IENCE: “The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.” How do we get the ability to [...]