A sermon preached by Canon Anne E. Kitch Thursday in the Fourth Week of Easter, May 3, 2012 “So many years since I saw you last,” writes the poet David Whyte in a poem called “Remember.” So many years since… Continue reading

Now the green blade riseth from the buried grain,wheat that in dark earth many days has lain;love lives again, that with the dead has been: Love is come againlike wheat that springeth green.   In the grave they laid him,… Continue reading

April 7, 2012 Will your loving-kindness be declared in the grave?   your faithfulness in the land of destruction?    Psalm 88:3, 12 As the morning becomes full, my house is still sleeping. Yesterday we gave ourselves to the telling of the… Continue reading

  April 6, 2011 Simon Peter said to him, ‘Lord, where are you going?’ Jesus answered, ‘Where I am going, you cannot follow me now; but you will follow afterwards.’ Peter said to him, ‘Lord, why can I not follow… Continue reading

April 5, 2012 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love… Continue reading

April 4, 2012   Listen to me and answer me;   I have no peace, because of my cares.I am shaken by the noise of the enemy   and by the pressures of the wicked.  Psalm 55:2-3 Is snacking on pretzels really… Continue reading

April 3, 2012 Help me, Lord, for there is no godly one left;   the faithful have vanished from among us. Psalm 12:1 The strands of palm leaves tucked behind the corner of my mirror are already dry and brittle. We… Continue reading

April 2, 2012 Save me, O God,   for the waters have risen up to my neck.I am sinking in deep mire,   and there is no firm ground for my feet.I have come into deep waters,   and the torrent washes over… Continue reading

March 31, 2012 For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure. 2 Corinthians 4:17 I can feel the difference in the car as I pull into the parking lot. With a… Continue reading

March 30, 2012 Let me hear of your loving-kindness in the morning,for I put my trust in you;    show me the road that I must walk,    for I lift up my soul to you.    Psalm 143:8 “Did you remember to… Continue reading