January 2017

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New Year's Day		 2
 
 
 
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Feast of the Epiphany
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10 am - Morning Prayer		 9
Julia Chester Emery, Missionary, 1922		 10
 
 
 
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Hiliary, Bishop of Poitiers, 367		 14
 
 
 
 
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10 am - Morning Prayer		 16
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Day (observed)		 17
 
 
 
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Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1005		 20
Fabian, Bishop and Martyr Rome, 250		 21
Agnes, Martyr at Rome, 304
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10 am - Morning Prayer
Annual Meeting after church		 23
Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, 1893		 24
 
 
 
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John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, 407		 28
Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Friar, 1274
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10 am - Morning Prayer		 30
 
 
 
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Wage Peace

Wage peace with your breath.
Breathe in firemen and rubble,
breathe out whole buildings
and flocks of redwing blackbirds.

Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children
and freshly mown fields.
Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.
Breathe in the fallen
and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.

Wage peace with your listening:
Hearing sirens, pray loud.
Remember your tools:
Flower seeds, clothespins, clean rivers.

Make soup.
Play music, learn the word for thank you in three languages.
Learn to knit, and make a hat.
Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,
imagine grief as the out-breath of beauty
or the gesture of fish.
Swim for the other side.
Wage peace.

Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious.
Have a cup of tea and rejoice.
Act as if armistice has already arrived.
Don't wait another minute.

--Judith Hill

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