The Good Heart

“A genuinely good heart is a heart that is open and alight with understanding. It listens to the sorrows of the world. Our society is wrong to think that happiness depends on fulfilling one's own wants and desires. That is why our society is so miserable...” (Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Into the Heart of Life, Snow Lion: 2011, Chapter 9 ‘Practicing the good heart’)

Sunday, July 28, 2013

The Spirit In Prayer

In a way, people pray to each other. The way I say “ you ” to another, respectfully, hopefully, intimately, in desperation, or expectant...

Sunday, July 21, 2013

The Apostle To The Apostles

To St. Mary Magdalene You claimed the false until you found the True; your beauty wounded until Beauty wounded you,...

Solidarity In Suffering

There’s a scene near the beginning of the musical, Fiddler On The Roof , where Lazar comes upon Nachem the Beggar. Nachem cries out: “...

Sunday, July 14, 2013

"Go & Do Likewise"

I’d like to share a story with you, written a number of years ago by Eileen Suckley, an Episcopal laywoman and parishioner at Grace Chur...

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Giving Up Control

A familiar verse from Psalm 30 (v. 12) jumped out at me again this morning: " You have turned my wailing into dancing; you have pu...

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Sermon In Response to DOMA & California's Proposition 8

This past Sunday I was privileged to hear one of my colleagues, The Rev. Christy Laborda Harris, Rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Ch...

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Julian of Norwich & The Blood of Christ

For thirteen years as a Catholic seminarian and four years as a priest, I was formed and nurtured in the theology of the Blood of Christ ...

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Harry Allagree: Retired Episcopal parish priest and Regional Missioner; professed Oblate of the Order of Julian of Norwich

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