Christmastide Devotionals

WEDDINGS

BAPTISMS

MEMORIALS

PRAYER REQUEST

PASTORAL CARE

To Know Jesus Christ, The Son of God, and to Make Him Known

2024 PARISH BOOKLET

2023 Christmas Day Worship Service

Dec 28, 2023

Welcome to the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Vail, Colorado We welcome you to watch our worship service below for some perspective, peace, contemplation and reflection.Contact InformationThe Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration PO BOX 100019 Vail...

2023 Christmas Eve Worship Service

Dec 28, 2023

Retrospective

Jan 5, 2023

Whew! That’s a big push since Halloween, All Saints Day, Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas Eve, Christmas, Christmastide and now, the Eve of the Epiphany.

He Did It All and Infinitely More

Jan 4, 2023

We cannot leave Christmastide without a word about literary Christmases! Every year the hallowed books come out: Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree, a Little House Christmas, the Grinch, a Charlie Brown Christmas…

Let’s Collect Some Collects!

Jan 3, 2023

Not so much commentary today dear readers, on this (rare) Second Sunday After Christmas Day, but more praying.

A Deeper Christmas Dive

Jan 2, 2023

WARNING: TODAY’S CHRISTMAS DEVOTIONAL CONTAINS ITEMS OF AN UNBELIEVABLE GEEKY THEOLOGICAL NATURE. PROCEED AT GREAT RISK TO YOUR SOCIAL STANDING AND COMFY CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS….

Above All Names

Jan 1, 2023

A sincerely Happy New Calendar Year dear readers! May 2023 truly be a different Year of our Lord!

Smiles, Everyone, Smiles!

Dec 31, 2022

Well, Saint Francis of Assisi, revered Christ-figure of the medieval church, your turn to take us to the “woodshed” finally arrives!

O Come Silent Night

Dec 30, 2022

We visit today with two beloved Christmas hymns. Anglican holiday hymnody is an embarrassment of treasures, and we have only 12 Days of Christmastide after all, so please use these devotionals as a launch pad to explore your personal favorites…

Past as Prologue

Dec 29, 2022

Okeey dokey smokey, after a three day run of grand slamming saints’ days, can we please get back to some good ol’ Christmas joy now?! How ‘bout reverting to that First Sunday of Christmas for a re-visit of Sunday’s gospel,

The Holiest of Innocents

Dec 28, 2022

Today is a hard day, perhaps the most challenging of any saint’s day on the entire Christian calendar. Most clergy simply never mention it nor acknowledge it due to it’s disturbing content, but we are not most clergy nor most congregations.

Fourth

Dec 27, 2022

Andrew, Nicholas, Lucy, the Baptizer, Mary, Thomas, Stephen…our list of hagiography (fancy vocab for saintly biography) for Advent/Christmas/Epiphany is power-packed and star-studded. Today is no different!

Protomartyr

Dec 26, 2022

Happy 2nd day of Christmastide, Happy Boxing Day, Happy Feast of Stephen the Protomartyr…how many traditions can we cram into one 24 hour period?!

The Wisdom of the Forebears

Dec 25, 2022

An Episcopalian professor, liturgical scholar and author J. Robert Wright did the American church an invaluable service, re-introducing the Early Church Fathers (yes, a few mothers, but their voices are more difficult to find) to today’s church.

Love Come Down

Dec 24, 2022

Dearest Sisters and Brothers, we have to bid a very consequential and challenging Advent season goodbye, and pass over to the Eve of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ…or do we?

Make A New (Christmas) Plan, Stan!

Dec 23, 2022

What’s your Nativity plan? We need a Yule strategey here, and in this special bonus devotional, I want to provide some provocative, diverse options for you as we all make a new plan, Stan!