We are reflecting together in this brief, intense Advent season on the poignant Advent Sunday Collects. So constitutive, so incisive, so formative for our spiritual (and not so spiritual for that matter) walk though Advent. The Collects waste no time in their laconic cross-examination and lacing indictment of the human
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To properly enter into the Advent season, I want to re-visit an earlier Lenten devotion about a home chapel, worship space or prayer corner. I asked then, and ask again now, that you reserve some modest space as sacred space in which you pray, read scripture, ponder these and other
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Many thanks to all the volunteers and candy preparers for this very successful Halloween celebration at ECOT! Nearly 30 children ages birth to 18 years dressed as super hero, princesses, ghosts and ghouls, pirates, dragons, and more visited our first annual Trunk or Treat! What a lovely opportunity it was
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In every family, in every generation, I believe God provides one curator, one intrepid soul willing to endure the slings and arrows of familial scorn to courageously preserve cherished heirlooms of master craftsmen, woodworkers, artists, and seamstresses. I remember as a child in the late 1960s playing endlessly at my
Continue readingFather Brooks Keith survived the snowstorm on March 13 to appear on Vail’s own TV8 with Rick Messmer in support of the Trotter and Mutter families, each of whom will be celebrating the lives of loved ones this Friday, March 15. The Trotter memorial service takes place at the Edwards
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ECOT Now Has a Youth Ministry Vestry! by Rebecca Cotton, Youth Minister I am thrilled to share that we have formed our first ever Youth Ministry Vestry (YMV) to provide a sustainable structure and support to our youth ministry program. Please join me in thanking Holly Graves, John Raichart, Kim
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With 58 children and youth participating in this year’s Christmas Pageant, Transfiguration celebrated the birth of Christ with an amazing display of talent. Many thanks to Colin Meiring and Melinda Carlson of Vail Performing Arts Academy for their amazing vision for this performance, and bringing it to life! Thanks also
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Father Brooks focuses on the storms in our lives this month on KZYR True Local Radio 97.7FM. Not just storms like Irma and Harvey, but the personal storms – domestic violence, thoughts of suicide, anger, and more. Week 1, September 2017 Focus on keeping yourself safe by contacting loved
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The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Vail, CO and the Vail Valley in general, was represented by our own Father Brooks Keith and Deacon Steve Baird at the commissioning of the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford on Saturday, July 22, 2017. READ FULL STORY IN THE VAIL DAILY JULY 28,
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