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Are you interested in sharing and learning about faith in an interfaith context, making connections while learning with other students who are Christians, Jews, Muslims and other faith brackgrounds? Would you like to be better equipped for interfaith conversations in life and your work in the future? Check out the Interfaith Fellowship at Penn State! This 8 week paid fellowship …
We’ve been exploring the possibility of Spring Break in Washington, DC this March. This trip will blend service-learning and exploring the District and museums for the later part of Spring Break 2022 (March 10 – 13). We plan to leave State College the morning of Thursday, March 10th and return the afternoon of Sunday, March 13th. Housing, transportation, and meals …
I have never been one for New Year’s resolutions. Maybe it is the long-running joke that resolutions never seem to last through January that makes me uninterested in them. Mind you, I do find myself thinking about the start of the year as a time for new beginnings. In the waning weeks of December and the first few days of …
God of new beginnings, As this new year begins, help me take a moment to reflect. As I look back at the year that has ended, help me to see what I want to leave behind, to keep close people and activities that have fed and nourished me, to release things that have hurt or burdened me. As I …
Semester break is always a welcome change of pace without classes, exams, or school deadlines. Time with family and friends is a gift, yet it also presents its own challenges. Whether break comes after your first or last semester, whether your home is just across town or a thousand miles away from campus, and whether or not anyone from home …
O God, Thank you for the gift of my family. Thank you for all the ways my family has supported and cared for me. Thank you for the love and direction they give me. Thank you for reminders that families of all kinds struggle. Help me when we face times of challenge and hurt. Comfort me when those who are …
41Now every year [Jesus’] parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. 42And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival. 43When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. 44Assuming that he was in the group of travelers, they went a …
Like writings in much of Western culture (and culture in other places, too), the stories in the Bible tend to be about men. Interestingly, though, the stories that tell of Jesus’ birth, death, and resurrection include women in important ways. This week’s Gospel reading from Luke focuses on Jesus’ mother, Mary. In the verses before this week’s passage, Mary learns …
Magnificat of Mary My soul sings in gratitude. I’m dancing in the mystery of God. The light of the Holy One is within me and I am blessed, so truly blessed. This goes deeper than human thinking. I am filled with awe at Love whose only condition is to be received. The gift is not for the proud, for they …
39In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit 42and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit …
