Our Coming to Christ Changes Everything – Br. James Koester
You may have heard me say in the past that the Christian faith, and specifically the liturgical cycle of feasts and fasts is one of the few ways that connects many of us to the world around or rather,...
View ArticleLittle Gidding – Br. David Allen
In 1991, when we in the SSJE celebrated the 125th anniversary of our founding, the whole SSJE community made a pilgrimage to England and Scotland to visit places where the Society worked or had once...
View ArticleLiving In Love: Father Benson’s Vision for SSJE – Br. David Vryhof
Today we are celebrating the feast day of our Founder, Father Richard Meux Benson, a priest of the Church of England who, with two companions (one of them an American), established the Society of Saint...
View ArticleFor God Alone – Br. David Vryhof
“In April, 1536, at the end of the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Henry VIII, there were, scattered throughout England and Wales, more than eight hundredreligious houses, monasteries,...
View ArticleHow Can We Know the Divine? – Jane Shaw
A Sermon preached for SSJE Fellowship Day, 3 May 2014. Jane Shaw, Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. Texts: Isaiah 44:1-8; Psalm 92:1-2, 11-14; 1 John 5:1-13 John 20: 1 – 9. In the name of God,...
View ArticleThe Best Is Yet To Come – Br. James Koester
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Profession of Life Vows by Brother Luke Ditewig, SSJE Now I can’t claim to be the list king in this community. There is another brother, who will remain nameless, who...
View ArticleTelegrammes from God – Br. James Koester
Feast of Saint Edward the Confessor and Requiem for Brother John Goldring SSJE Wisdom 3: 1-6 Psalm 23 1 John 3: 1-2 John 20: 1-9 I first met John in the fall of 1981. I was at the Mission House in...
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