Worship can occur anywhere.  Although you are welcome to our physical sanctuary, you may not be able to join us there.

We invite you to make this space - our online chapel - an opportunity to worship and reflect.

Take a few minutes.  Read the message below.  Reflect on its meaning for you.

Stay as long as you like.

 


 
MARY, THE PREPARED ONE
The Annunciation story (Luke 1:26-38) is the crescendo point to scripture’s theme of total grace and gift. Did you ever notice that Mary does not say she’s “not worthy”? She only asks for clarification: “How can this happen? I am a virgin” (Luke 1:34). She never asks if, whether, or why!
That is quite extraordinary and reveals her egolessness. Mary becomes the archetype of perfect receptivity. It takes the entire Bible to work up to one perfect vessel that knows how to say an unquestioning yes to an utterly free gift.
Adapted from Richard Rohr's Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality, pp. 31-32
Starter Prayer: The Almighty has done great things for me.
 





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