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Texts for Proper 9 (14) Year B

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10

Ezekiel 2:1-5

Psalm 48

Psalm 123

2 Corinthians 12:2-10

Mark 6:1-13

Jesus. could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them. And he was amazed at their unbelief. Then he went about among the villages teaching.
T’S Hard for me [...]

KILEY DOKILEY! The new theme is done. It’s a serious tweak of the Atahualpa theme – a rather fabulous theme with a metric tonne of options available for the user to set. Those of you familiar with my old blog design, I’ve sought to recreate as much of it as I like [...]

VideyoSnap! – Huw and the Ants

Originally uploaded by Buffawhat™

Next on Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom”: Ants. While Jim is out there wrestling Anacondas, we’ll stay here, close to home, watching the ants that live under the stoop eat my popcorn.
Thanks to my buddy, Nate…

Green Shirt Thursday

Originally uploaded by w.wabbit.

O WE WERE Sipping tea in the church, a clergy friend and I, relaxing in that most Orthodox of fashion: making Eucharist and fellowship with our ginger beer and crisps after a really smashing pot luck. We were discussing “What makes it Christian community” – that is a church or a meal or whatever. [...]

TEXTS FOR Proper 8 (13), June 28, 2009
2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27
Psalm 130
Wisdom of Solomon 1:13-15, 2:23-24
Psalm 30
2 Corinthians 8:7-15
Mark 5:21-43
Do not fear, only believe.
HIS BUILDS ON LAST Week’s readings – The disciples crossing the water with Jesus asleep in the boat. They wake him up because the storm is getting too bad [...]

New Altarware…

Originally uploaded by w.wabbit.

Available from the Bethleham Bible College, this altar set follows the ancient canons of not using "vessels of gold". Other canons, of course, state exactly the reverse. Sign me up for confusion: this ain’t no organised religion!
I picked this set up in Kensington Market, Toronto.

UMBER 45 Is upon me! Here’s 45 Gifts and one to grow on as suggestions… if you want to shop now, that is!

Toronto Pride6.jpg

Originally uploaded by w.wabbit.

The pictures from TO Pride are posted to my flickr now. We bought this cool toy for our cameras…. many facets of pictures.
Brodie’s pics are also posted.

Preached on 24 June 2001 at St Gregory of Nyssa Church in San Francisco… sorry for the repost: I’m in Toronto at the Pride Festival.
t’s my sense that both these readings that we’ve heard today talk about healing of one sort or another. The Gospel speaks of an internal healing, and the Epistle talks about [...]