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Dec 2018

Message about our 2019 Budget from our Calvary Finance Chair Dear Calvary Parishioners,                                                         December 11, 2018 I am writing this message to all of you as an update on our preliminary 2019 budget results. The finance committee (Minnie Titus-Glover, Dan Hoefler, myself) together with the help of Dave Evensen, have put together the first draft of what we are expecting 2019 to look like.  The budget for Calvary Episcopal Church is relatively simple – with our biggest intake being pledges, and our largest expense being our church staff.   After that, there are......

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04
Dec 2018

Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the First Sunday in Advent, 12/02/2018, As we prepare for the anniversary of Christ’s first coming, we are preparing for His Second Coming. Christ is with us now, every day, by virtue of our baptism and the Holy Spirit. Christ promised that, when two or three are gathered in His name, He will be with them. Every Sunday, when we gather to worship, Christ is with us. In addition to being with us and part of us, He is with us in the form of His Body......

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05
Nov 2018

Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for All Saints Sunday, the 24th Sunday after Pentecost, 11/04/2018.  In the Episcopal Church, we celebrate All Saints on November 1st and on the Sunday closest to November 1st. I have celebrated this service four times this year. I am glad we honor our departed on this date because the reading from this year seem to focus more on death than on honoring the departed. What or who do we honor on this date? We honor Holiness. For a lot of us, if we think about ourselves, we......

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Oct 2018

Extract from Fr Mike’s Homily regarding Stewardship 2018-2019–We need to determine what we can contribute to the growth of the Kingdom of God. (From his homily on 09/30/2018-“Do The Work We Have Been Called To Do”)  Fr Mike speaks to data collected by the Episcopal Church regarding size of congregations and asks us to consider what we can contribute to the growth of the Kingdom of God.   Here is a draft of a comprehensive presentation about Calvary we will be working from to create the materials for the 2018-19 Stewardship Campaign.......

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30
Sep 2018

Audio file for Fr Mike’s homily for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost–09/30/2018. File made at the 10:15AM Service. For an almost complete transcript, view the sermon with the same date and title. You can download this as an M4A file or as an MP3 file. Do-the-Work-We-Have-Been-Given-to-Do-M4A Do-the-Work-We-Have-Been-Given-to-Do-MP3 Fr Michael Rasicci’s homily for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost, 09/30/2018. Every year the national office of the Episcopal Church publishes statistics. In 2017, the Average Sunday Attendance at Episcopal parishes in the USA was 54. Over the past several years, this number has been......

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