Community of the Holy Spirit
Skipp Truscott reflects on Job 39:1-12, 26-30; Psalm 104:14-23; and Luke 12:22-31 for the third week in the Season of Creation. Berta, liana and I often take walks into the country at the edge of Coeur d'Alene, where we commonly see deer and turkeys feeding. It is a...
Chuck Finan reflects on Genesis 1:20-25; Psalm 121; Matthew 11:25-30 on the Feast of St Francis. Last month I had the opportunity to preach on Creation. As I prepared the homily, I remembered those final words God said after the garden was completed, "It is Good."...
Rev. James Murphy reflects on John 14:15-16, 23b-26 at the Feast of Pentecost, June 5, 2022. The Reformation was a time of terrible upheaval in Europe. Christians were killing Christians. Neighbor turned against neighbor. Kingdom against kingdom. The wars of religion...
In our reading from Exodus, we hear of the Israelites liberation from slavery. Miriam and all the women dance for joy. The psalm that follows expresses the Israelites’ gladness in being saved by God. In the reading from Romans, Paul tells us that when Jesus was...
April 3, 2022, 5th Sunday of Lent I love libraries. Not so much the big public libraries as the small personal libraries that many of us have in our homes. Whether the library has only a few books or hundreds of books, libraries tell us a lot about who we are, who we...
March 6, 2022, First Sunday of Lent Deuteronomy 26:4-10 Romans 10:8-13 Luke 4:1-13 As I read in Luke about Jesus being tempted by the devil I had a flashback to my life as a 16 year old teenager trying to fit into my new high school environment. Since I was...
“Do to others as you would have them do to you.” We’ve all heard this before; it is the Golden Rule. Jesus states it in the gospel reading today, but the examples Jesus provides of how to behave are not really illustrations of the Golden Rule. They go beyond the...
Hello Friends! Please forgive me for not being with you tonight. It’s simply not the best for me to drive after dark. Yet…thank you for inviting me to send over a copy of these reflections so that, perhaps, they will enable your own insightful dialogue and sharing. We...
Community of the Holy Spirit Ecumenical Catholic Church in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, announces the recent ordination of Terese Fandel to the priesthood. Reverend Terese worked for many years as a pathologist at Kootenai Health before returning to Gonzaga University for a degree in Theology and Leadership. She has been ordained a priest in the Northwest Diocese of the Ecumenical Catholic Communion by Bishop Kedda Keough.
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