These are the entries and photos that I posted on Facebook as part of a travelogue during my pilgrimage to Sri Lanka on 14-25, 2019 November with Episcopal Relief & Development Friday 15 November 2019Colombo, Sri Lanka I left Harrisburg PA from the train station at 4 PM on Wednesday, and am finally at my […]
This is a follow-up blog entry to my Facebook posts while traveling in Sri Lanka in mid-November. For more photos and the travelogue of our pilgrimage to Sri Lanka, check back here later as I hope to digest the FB postings- including photographs- on this site. — Thanksgiving morning 28 November 2019 Newark Marriott, NJ Sri […]
Note: this blog post appeared Nov 1 on Facebook and, now, is catalogued here. I am committed to posting once per month on the first day of the month and due to technical difficulties (computer virus) I was unable to access Word Press on Nov 1. Since the time that this was posted on FB, […]
Thursday 3 October 2019 Philadelphia ONE. I’m here in Center City Philadelphia sitting in my 4thfloor aerie of an historic hotel room, looking out of the tiny, single dormer window to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, which, when it was built in 1922, was the longest single span bridge in America. I’m here for the 250thanniversary […]
A Pastoral Letter from The Rt. Rev. Audrey C. ScanlanXI BishopThe Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania (to be read in all parishes on Sunday, September 8, 2019) Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable […]
Suggestions for How to Pray in the Middle of This* I called for us (my family, friends and members of our diocese who read what I write on Facebook) to prayer today, in the aftermath of the weekend shootings in El Paso, TX and Dayton OH. One of my friends replied to my suggestion of […]
On Sunday afternoon, when I return from my visit up north, I will head straight to the corner of the garage where we store the camping supplies: tent, hammock, sleeping bag, chair, and plastic bins with camp stove, fuel, coffee press, cutting board, cutlery, paper towels, lighters, lanterns, flashlights, batteries, fire starter, camp knife, dish pan, […]
(The first posting of this blog dropped an entire paragraph. This is the full version. Sorry.) Last week at this time, I was focused intently on the one square foot of land beneath my feet that changed with each step that I took, drawing closer and closer to the goal of the end of Peter’s […]
Last week at this time, I was focused intently on the one square foot of land beneath my feet that changed with each step that I took, drawing closer and closer to the goal of the end of Peter’s Mountain on our Appalachian Camino hike. It was a focus that was necessary as my hiking party […]
I missed my monthly blog deadline on Friday. I was traveling and have a new laptop that is not yet loaded with all of the old automatic passwords and access codes and I was short on both time and patience in trying to re-set a password that I was sure that I had right, but kept freezing […]
