News at The Episcopal Church in Almaden, San Jose
Easter Message 2025
“Giving our life in love is not without suffering. Passion – Jesus’ passion and our passion – is both about love and suffering. The great mystery of life is how love and suffering coexist, and how they inform each other. Jesus shows us the way.” Come join us on our community website to reflect on this quote and read a message from Reverend Karen Cuffie. We hope it helps you to find some inspiration this week.
Weekly Inspiration (4/4/25)
“Pauses to reflect and regroup, as happens in Lent, are not periods of motionlessness. Rather, like two trapeze artists, the moment of connecting produces seeming stillness, which in reality is merely brief arrested motion before carrying on together.” Come join us on our community website to reflect on this quote & poem of the week. We hope it helps you to find some inspiration this week.
Weekly Inspiration (3/29/25)
“…But if the story of Scripture, the story of our faith, is a story of failure, it is also a story of returning, again and again—returning to our God, and to ourselves.” Come join us on our community website to reflect on the rest of this weeks quote & poem. We hope it helps you to find some inspiration this week.
Weekly Inspiration (3/20/25)
“Jesus tells his disciples that anyone who wants to follow him must “take up their cross daily.” I love how Jesus uses the word “daily.”…The fact that Jesus purposefully put in the word “daily” gets at something important to the Christian experience….” Come join us on our community website to reflect on the rest of this weeks quote & poem. We hope it helps you to find some inspiration this week.
Weekly Inspiration (2/22/25)
“Lord, make me a channel of disturbance. Where there is apathy, let me provoke; Where there is compliance, let me bring questioning. Where there is silence, may I be a voice. Where there is too much comfort and too little action, grant disruption. Where there are doors closed and hearts locked, Grant the willingness to listen….” Come join us on our community website to reflect on the rest of this weeks poem. We hope it helps you to find some inspiration this week.
Weekly Inspiration (2/15/25)
“Through his ministry of healing and reconciliation, as well as through his association with outcasts and sinners, Jesus is proclaiming the arrival of God’s rule…bringing forth new life. And that is cause for celebration!” Come join us on our community website to read and reflect on the rest of this weeks quote. We hope it helps you to find some inspiration this week.
Weekly Inspiration (1/25/25)
“You will go through seasons of life where you are overwhelmed and feel lost: having lost your bearings, lost your direction, lost your meaning, maybe lost your hope. The good news is in Jesus’ real presence. Jesus is God Emmanuel, God with us. And his presence is real: not imaginary….” Come join us on our community website to read and reflect on the rest of this weeks quote. We hope it helps you to find some inspiration this week.
Weekly Inspiration (1/8/25)
“Stop what you’re doing. Take a break. Go outside. Change perspective. Take deep breaths. Slow yourself down. Unplug. Disconnect from devices. Gaze. What catches your eye? What’s beautiful? Hold there….” Come join us on our community website to read and reflect on the rest of this weeks quote and poem. We hope it helps you to find some inspiration this week.