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DAY 1: Pray for you Luke 22:7-13 is clear, “Go prepare the [meal] for us so we can eat it together.” This year I (Pastor Maritza) will engage in a journey to learn and imagine what happened during the last 24 hours of Jesus’ life. Once again I will be using the devotional written byContinue reading “Celebrate Love”

Advent/Adviento its at our door! Please join this great celebration with lighting of the candles! This year we have Rev. Edwin J. Santiago and family, Victor and Jedxenia Santiago and children, Rev. Elivette Mendez Angulo; and, Rev. Dr. Maritza A. de Gonzalez and David lighing a candle… do not miss this year’s excitement! Adviento/Advent estáContinue reading “Adviento/Advent”

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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…

I am of the belief and understanding that all uncomfortable conversations should begin At church. That is precisely what our congregation asked Encuentros de Gracia y Bienvenida to make us real as we using Isaiah 49:16 “I have engraved you in the palm of my hand” to discuss INTERSECTIONALITY. Soy de la creencia y entendimientoContinue reading “IDENTITY BOWLING”

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)”