Irving, Texas

Heard in the pews

Worship is language

This is Canon Victoria’s letter in our weekly Parish News email.  To sign up for our newsletter, please visit: Constant Contact. To see the full weekly Parish News email from May 5th, please visit: http://conta.cc/2q8ixQ8 Recently I was in an elevator. I saw the Braille markings next to the Arabic numbers on the buttons.   I had…

Where is your sacred space?

This is Canon Victoria’s letter in our weekly Parish News email.  To sign up for our newsletter, please visit: Constant Contact. To see the full weekly Parish News email from Apr 21st, please visit: http://conta.cc/2p4nDf4 For some, it is a place in nature, where there is a deep stillness and a place that gives rise to…

Heard in the Pews – March 17th

This is Canon Victoria’s letter in our weekly Parish News email.  To sign up for our newsletter, please visit: Constant Contact. To see the full weekly Parish News email from Mar 17th, please visit: http://conta.cc/2mEb1Hl Ellen Bachelor’s Lent Madness with its intentional archness of matching off saints to “compete for the Golden Halo”  made me go…

“To repent of your sins…”

This is Canon Victoria’s letter in our weekly Parish News email.  To sign up for our newsletter, please visit: Constant Contact. To see the full weekly Parish News email from Feb 24th, please visit: http://conta.cc/2msZdIK This week I reread sections of a little book I was once given by an older priest. It is called St.…

The Seduction of Secrecy

This is Canon Victoria’s letter in our weekly Parish News email.  To sign up for our newsletter, please visit: Constant Contact. To see the full weekly Parish News email from Feb 24th, please visit: http://conta.cc/2mtLa4E In my twenties, I was invited to join a secret society.  It sounded mystical and then, when I read more about…

Come and eat

This is Canon Victoria’s letter in our weekly Parish News email.  To sign up for our newsletter, please visit: Constant Contact. To see the full weekly Parish News email from Feb 17th, please visit: http://conta.cc/2kGNyDC In most cultures, to eat with someone is to have a relationship with him. By eating together underscores a commonality of…