Author Archives: Rev. Elly

NEVER TOO LATE (Joel 2: 12-17) Good evening this is Pastor Elivette (Elly) Mendez Angulo from Manantial de Gracia “Spring of Grace” in West Hartford, CT recording from Franklinton Center at Bricks in Whitakers, NC.  And today, like every Wednesday at 7pm o’clock we are talking about “Hablando de Todo” texto/text, observaciones/observations, diario vivir/daily livingContinue reading “Lent: Never Too Late”

Luis Enrique Mendez Angulo September 19, 1978 – November 3, 2018 Luis Enrique Mendez Angulo, 40, writer, photographer and world traveller passed on November 3, 2018. A Celebration of Life will be held at Manantial de Gracia “Spring of Grace” (The Chapel at First Church) 12 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT on Saturday, NovemberContinue reading “We Remember Luis Enrique Mendez Angulo”

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“I know God loves me.  When my mom died God allowed me to spend her last days with her and I was with her when Jesus told her she loved her and she told him she already knew.  Moments later, she finally exhaled her last breath with a smile.”

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“I came because I heard the church was open.  I thought it was closed all these years…”

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Spoken from the door frame of the church: “Are you sure that God wont smite me?  I just had sex and we ain’t planning to be married…”

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“It is wonderful to see you both out here. Together doing this.  It has been a while for me.” (continues walking, gets to the corner, returns). “Can you please pray for me and share my ashes?”

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On this evening I choose to participate in Glitter Ashes at the end of a Glitter Filled Masquerade Ball. Actually deeper than that, I choose to intentionally invite a group of people who for many reasons have felt unwelcome at church… for whom the space that I consider so sacred and…

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It makes sense that Mardi Gras should become part of my series of favorite religious holidays.  After all, the seldom told story (at least in my family) is that Mardi Gras (also known as: Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday) is the final day, the culmination of the Christian Feast that commenced…

Glitter Ashes, Masquerade ball to mark the beginning of Lent in Massachusetts LGBTQ community Written by Connie Larkman A couple of United Church of Christ pastors find God in glitter. And on Ash Wednesday, they hope scores of others can too. They will be distributing glitter infused ashes during a midnight worship service in MassachusettsContinue reading “Glitter Ash Wednesday (starts with a Masquarade Ball on Tuesday)”

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Song: Welcome into this place (acapela) Song: A Wing and a Prayer Call to Community: Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 Leader: For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: GOD’S GIFT IS TIME, even to rest a time to be born, and a time to die; a…