Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday in Jerusalem 2008:

Our Transparent World

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Life is this simple:

We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent
and the Divine is shining through it all the time.

This is not just a nice story or a fable. It is true.

- Thomas Merton

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Strange Fire

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i come to you with strange fire,
i make an offering of love,
the incense of my soil
is burned by the fire in my blood.

i come with a softer answer
to the questions that lie in your path.
i want to harbor you from the anger,
find a refuge from the wrath.

this is a message of love.
love that moves from the inside out,
love that never grows tired.
i come to you with strange fire.



find another state of mind.
grab hold.
strange fire burns with the motion of love.

when you learn to love yourself,
you will dissolve all the stones that are cast,
you will learn to burn the icing sky
and to melt the waxen mask.

yes, to have the gift of true release,
this is a peace that will take you higher.
i come to you with my offering,
i bring you strange fire.

this is a message of love.
love that moves from the inside out,
love that never grows tired.
i come to you with strange fire.

- Indigo Girls

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YOU Are Invited...

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To walk the new indoor canvas labyrinth at St. Anne's!

Proudly made by eager children and their very patient adult friends.

Our church office hours are Monday - Thursday from 9am - 1pm.

Our building is also available on Monday and Wednesday evenings.

Please call the church office at 651-455-9449 for other possibilities.

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path.
- Gautam Buddha

Yet the Lord pleads with you still: Ask where the good road is,
The godly paths you used to walk in, in the days of long ago.
Travel there, and you will find rest for your souls.
- Jeremiah 6:16

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old,
Seek what they sought.
- Matsuo Basho

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find
- Matthew 7:7

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Trust

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Only when someone gives us permission to start trusting ourselves do we also start listening to ourselves, do we take ourselves seriously, as I believe God does. Only when we start trusting ourselves do we also begin to take responsibility for ourselves and for our mistakes. Only then do we grow and become 'fully mature with the fullness of Christ himself' (Ephesians 4:13). In this transient world of human limitation, there is nothing purely secular or purely sacred. There is only good direction and bad direction. Jesus came to show us the way--the way through. The theologians call it the 'Paschal Mystery,' the way of dying and rising.

We must admit that both directions are happening in our lives...The wondrous work of grace is to be able to gather those opposing forces together in one place and make them into forces for life rather than death. We call it holiness.

- Richard Rohr
Near Occasions of Grace

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