News at The Episcopal Church in Almaden, San Jose
Weekly Inspiration (6/17/25)
“God’s activity is not confined to what we do when we assemble to worship, not confined to what goes on inside church. The Spirit of God will not be confined, controlled or contained. Stay alert and full of prayerful expectancy, so as to recognize the activity of the Spirit, to see the Kingdom of God at work in unexpected places.” Come join us on our community website to reflect on this quote & poem of the week. We hope it helps you find some inspiration this week.
Weekly Inspiration (6/1/25)
“Look at the river. It has no water of its own. It receives from upstream, and passes on what it receives. You are not the spring, but the riverbank. You don't have to have love, you only have to pass it on.…” Come join us on our community website to reflect on this poem & quote of the week. We hope it helps you to find some inspiration this week.
Weekly Inspiration (5/16/25)
“In friendship we discover the fully formed personhood of our friend. We encounter all that makes them themselves, unique and irreplaceable—the things about them we like and the things we don’t. We come to recognize that they are their own world, and Christ dwells in all of it, not just our own points of commonality…” Come join us on our community website to reflect on this quote & the poem of the week. We hope it helps you to find some inspiration this week.
Weekly Inspiration (5/6/25)
“…We all have our own race to the tomb. More importantly, we all have our own race to the resurrection - our own jagged journey to the realization that life continues after death.” Come join us on our community website to reflect on this quote & the poem of the week. We hope it helps you to find some inspiration this week.
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.