Lent Blog

Thank you for joining us this Advent Season.  We hope the blog inspired and guided you through the season with more hope, confidence, and courage to face all of life’s challenges.  From all of us at the Marble Women’s Ministry, we wish you a blessed interlude between Christmas and New Year’s.  We will post from […]

Dreaming Mendelssohn By Margie Dimoplon I woke up Christmas morning hearing Mendelssohn, the music from my dream continuing a theme so joyful and light-as-air it lingered – celestial. My mind searched lines and spaces to identify the composition’s name and movement: Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, allegro assai vivace. But why Mendelssohn on Christmas? […]

By Patrice Donnell In my childhood, during Advent, there was always one night when my father read to us “The Littlest Angel” by Charles Tazewell. It always moved me to tears, and inspired me, a timid child, to be braver about who God made me to be.

Lord help me to embrace the new beginnings of this season I pray for courage to move forward, letting go of  the things that are holding me back I thank you for all of the blessings you have bestowed upon me Help me a to be open to your guidance and grace. Shared by Brenda […]

As we head off for our last minute shopping today or begin our Christmas travel, may we take a few moments to listen to the music of the season. Christ Child Lullaby sung by Rhiannon Giddens The Christmas Song sung by Gregory Porter Little Drummer Boy sung by The King’s Singers Born on Christmas Day […]

Shared by Guirlaine Belizaire What does it take to be A Light in the World, to accept the sacred invitation to truly make flesh The Word? A sprawling, often lonely, task that will inevitably ask the removal of all human masks. There’s no hiding, only faithfully abiding; Seeing the world differently; expanding consciousness to foreign […]

“There is no Joy without Gratitude.”  Dr. Brene Brown “Joy to the world”; “O tidings of comfort and joy.” Maybe this  Christmas season, whenever we hear, read or sing about joy, we bring to mind this quote from Dr. Brene Brown. Let us continue to count our blessings – gratitude in action. Blessings, Kathryn Boyce-Piper […]

Growing up I remember all of the frenzy after the Thanksgiving holiday.  From late November until Christmas, one of our family rituals was to attend the symphony to hear Handel’s Messiah and other Advent/Christmas music. As children, this annual event represented excitement and anticipation for the coming holiday, and the “presents” we would receive under […]