Tuesday, December 9, 2025: Remember: Zoom meeting today at 4:00 to decide on celebrants for the first half of 2026: 



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Advent Prayer 

"Let us set forth, carrying one another. Let us keep hope alive, knowing that peace is possible. It will be difficult, but we remember that we once lived together in this land as Muslims, Jews and Christians. 

There will be many moments when the way appears blocked. But together we will carve out a path forward, rooted in God’s hope, and “hope does not disappoint us.” (Romans 5:5). Our hope is in God, in ourselves and in every human being upon whom God bestows some of His goodness."

-Keeping Hope Alive—A Christian Reflection from Jerusalem, October 7, 2024 Reflection Group + Michel Sabbah, Patriarch Emeritus



Prophet Isaiah calls us to build a road through the desert

in preparation for the One coming

Patriarch Michael Sabbah calls us to “carve out a path forward”

for a hope that will not disappoint

because it is attached to God’s peace

Beloveds, we have road work to do

Let us pray and pick up our shovels

to make hope possible

to make it so

- Loren McGrail



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