Tuesday, February 17, 2015
The Coming of Lent
February 17, 2015
Dear Friends,
Tomorrow all over the surface of the earth Christian believers will gather in churches, in train stations, in tiny chapels and grand cathedrals to accept on their bodies a simple sign in the dust of the earth that says, "I am a mortal, fallible sinner and I intend to repent." So will begin the season of Lent. It is indeed a season of penance and repentance. It is as well a long retreat to recall the meaning lifelong of our sharing baptism into Christ.
The form this season takes for some of us year to year appears to be this: it is a season to be the type of serious Christian we are not the remainder of the year. This time around we might consider allowing tthe practices and experience of the season to be a beginning that does not end with the coming of Easter. Rather, might it not be a reformation of life that commences now and grows into future fullness?
Who are we called to be in Christ? Not just tomorrow, and not only until Easter, but always.
I hope you will find useful, both for personal enrichment and parish ministry. the Lenten Resources gathered on a page here on the Mercer School website for the season.
Lenten blessings,
John P. McGinty+
Canon for Formation
Thursday, February 5, 2015
New Semester Opens @ Mercer
February 5, 2015
Dear Friends,
Our new semester at Mercer School of Theology begins this month. You can find information about our courses, lectures, workshops and other events currently scheduled from now to June by following this link to our recent email:
http://tinyurl.com/popw98r
There you get full information about what we have going on and register online as well for almost all our events.
If you don't see something there that you would like to see happening, email your idea to jmcginty@dioceseli.org.
Open Gates is published each day (www.mercerdaily.org) and our website (www.mercerschool.org) and Facebook (Conversations at Mercer) and Twitter (@MercerTheology) connections are up and active. Stay in touch!
Blessings,
John McGinty+
Dean, Mercer School of Theology
Canon for Formation
Diocese of Long Island
Dear Friends,
Our new semester at Mercer School of Theology begins this month. You can find information about our courses, lectures, workshops and other events currently scheduled from now to June by following this link to our recent email:
http://tinyurl.com/popw98r
There you get full information about what we have going on and register online as well for almost all our events.
If you don't see something there that you would like to see happening, email your idea to jmcginty@dioceseli.org.
Open Gates is published each day (www.mercerdaily.org) and our website (www.mercerschool.org) and Facebook (Conversations at Mercer) and Twitter (@MercerTheology) connections are up and active. Stay in touch!
Blessings,
John McGinty+
Dean, Mercer School of Theology
Canon for Formation
Diocese of Long Island
Sunday, February 1, 2015
New Month, New Semester, New Superbowl!
February 1, 2015
Dear Friends,
Already the second month of the year 2015 dawns. Here in the northeastern United States we are bracing for another dose of snowfall.
Our new semester at Mercer School of Theology also begins today. You can find information about our courses, lectures, workshops and other events currently scheduled from now to June by following this link to our recent email:
http://tinyurl.com/popw98r
There you get full information about what we have going on and register online as well for almost all our events.
If you don't see something there that you would like to see happening, email your idea to jmcginty@dioceseli.org.
Oh! Tonight comes the SuperBowl. Perhaps I should be impartial, but I was born just north of Boston and from the date of their formation in the 60's every Patriots game ever - even when broadcasts were only by radio - has been heard and attended to in our house. Just saying.
Open Gates is published each day (www.mercerdaily.org) and our website (www.mercerschool.org) and Facebook (Conversations at Mercer) and Twitter (@MercerTheology) connections are up and active. Stay in touch!
Blessings,
John McGinty+
Dean, Mercer School of Theology
Canon for Formation
Diocese of Long Island
Dear Friends,
Already the second month of the year 2015 dawns. Here in the northeastern United States we are bracing for another dose of snowfall.
Our new semester at Mercer School of Theology also begins today. You can find information about our courses, lectures, workshops and other events currently scheduled from now to June by following this link to our recent email:
http://tinyurl.com/popw98r
There you get full information about what we have going on and register online as well for almost all our events.
If you don't see something there that you would like to see happening, email your idea to jmcginty@dioceseli.org.
Oh! Tonight comes the SuperBowl. Perhaps I should be impartial, but I was born just north of Boston and from the date of their formation in the 60's every Patriots game ever - even when broadcasts were only by radio - has been heard and attended to in our house. Just saying.
Open Gates is published each day (www.mercerdaily.org) and our website (www.mercerschool.org) and Facebook (Conversations at Mercer) and Twitter (@MercerTheology) connections are up and active. Stay in touch!
Blessings,
John McGinty+
Dean, Mercer School of Theology
Canon for Formation
Diocese of Long Island
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