Fr. Christian Mathis | June 6, 2010
Posts are few and far between this week due to our annual parish trip to NPH El Salvador. Keeping with that theme, here is a post with two of the kids. Enjoy! Once again you are invited to join me in promoting the Sabbath by taking a break from your normal blogging. Please share an [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | May 23, 2010
I like to hike. So much so that my friend David and I are slowly walking all 2000+ miles of the Appalachian Trail. So much so that my friend Ashley and I have plans to hike all the trails in the Great Smoky Mountains, once her leg heals that is. Today’s Sabbath Sunday post is [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | May 9, 2010
In honor of this month of First Communions at St. Thomas, I am sharing this previous post that contains a beautiful Eastern Christian prayer on the Eucharist. You can find it here. Once again you are invited to join me in promoting the Sabbath by taking a break from your normal blogging. Please share an [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | May 2, 2010
We are only a week away from hosting an iconography workshop at St. Thomas. I am very excited to be beginning a new icon and to see my friend Irene! This weeks Sabbath Sunday post has a picture of the icon that I wrote last summer. You can find it here. Once again you are [...]
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Tags: iconography, Irene Perez-Omer, rest, Sabbath, St. Gabriel the Archangel, St. Thomas
Fr. Christian Mathis | April 25, 2010
Have you ever had trouble with keeping your language clean? This week’s Sabbath Sunday post may be for you. You can find it here. Once again you are invited to join me in promoting the Sabbath by taking a break from your normal blogging. Please share an older post from your blog that is near [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | April 18, 2010
Today I return to St. Thomas after having spent two weeks with several friends and family members, but the thing most on my mind as I return is the recent news of one of my brother priests who has admitted to sexually abusing a child 25 years ago. Unfortunately I have had some experience when [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | April 11, 2010
This past week I have spent lots of time in the great outdoors. It seems appropriate to make this Sabbath Sunday post about the same. Here is a guest post from my friend Ashley on trudging. You can find it here. Once again you are invited to join me in promoting the Sabbath by taking [...]
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Tags: Ashley Siferd, hiking, rest, Sabbath