Month: April 2022

  • Holy Week ’22 at St John the Apostle, Madrid, Spain

    The solemn observance of this year’s holy week at St John the Apostle Parish Church of the Charismatic Episcopal Church (CEC) in Madrid, Spain kicked off with the traditional celebration of Palm Sunday on 10 April at the chapel of Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de las Delicias. Initial activities of displaying, waving, and blessing palms…

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  • A special invitation

    Palm Sunday, 10 April 2022 Life is a journey.  Paul Coelho said,  “Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station.”[1] We’re pilgrims and sojourners on earth, a temporary place where nothing is permanent; we won’t…

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  • The Patriarch’s 2022 Easter Message

    Dear Brothers, It is hard to believe that Holy Week and the Paschal Feast are here. The ancient liturgical events from Palm Sunday through Holy Week and culminating on Easter morning are so rich. I know each of you will be preparing sermons, and that is good. But the liturgy will do a great deal of the preaching…

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  • The God who does not condemn

    5th Sunday in Lent, 2 April 2022 John 8:2-11 C. S. Lewis said people will not understand Christianity until they become a Christian.  I cannot judge a country I have never visited.  People view something differently from a distance, and often our judgment is influenced by “social media” and news.  There are things we won’t understand about Jesus until…

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