This Advent my daily mediations will be posted on the Pilgrimage blog of the Diocese of Bethlehem. I invite you to join me on this preparation for pilgrimage. Continue reading

Good Shepherd Sunday A sermon preached at St. Luke’s Church in Scranton, PA The Rev. Canon Anne E. Kitch So last night I had an email from Fr. Sweeny saying, “You do remember that you are coming to St. Luke’s… Continue reading

Easter Day …and the buried Alleluias burst forth all at once breaking through husk and earth in an instant tendrils becoming branches shooting forth already laden with full blooms of resurrection joy Alleluia! Christ is risen! Image Copyright: / 123RF… Continue reading

Holy Saturday My sight has failed me because of trouble; Lord, I have called upon you daily; I have stretched out my hands to you. Psalm 88:10 Through the dark the torrents scour the earth then abate leaving in their… Continue reading

A sermon preached by Anne E. Kitch Grace Church, Allentown PA Good Friday 2015 Sometimes… you come to a place whose only task is to trouble you Sometimes… writes poet David Whyte you come to a place whose only task… Continue reading

Good Friday My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? and are so far from my cry and the words of my distress? Psalm 22:1 And what about the why? Not Have you forsaken me? Will you forsake me?… Continue reading

Maundy Thursday Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come before you; hide not your face from me in the day of my trouble. Psalm 102:1 I hear the clock ticking in the early hours of the quiet house… Continue reading

Wednesday in Holy Week Hear my prayer, O God; do not hide yourself from my petition. Listen to me and answer me; I have no peace, because of my cares. Psalm 55:1-2 In the evening and in the morning I… Continue reading

Tuesday in Holy Week The Lord has heard my supplication; the Lord accepts my prayer. Psalm 6:9 I turn the corner in my familiar route home only to be thwarted. A roadblock. It was not here on my way to… Continue reading

Monday in Holy Week Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:11 I step out into the cold to clip some branches from the forsythia. It is time. No blossoms yet,… Continue reading