http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/calling-god-mother/ stories about the suburbs, church, and home Sun, 12 Jun 2016 23:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/calling-god-mother/#comment-27415 Sun, 12 Jun 2016 23:06:30 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=3800#comment-27415 Please keep your personal theology out of the pulpit. So sick of all this who ha over nothing. Am offended to hear God as Mother When will clergy ever learn benchers like the familiar. We like one place we can bow our heads and speak with God without insane distractions like hollering Mother.

]]> http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/calling-god-mother/#comment-25265 Wed, 09 Mar 2016 02:59:22 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=3800#comment-25265 Amen

]]> http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/calling-god-mother/#comment-25260 Tue, 08 Mar 2016 23:01:44 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=3800#comment-25260 Wonderful post, Heidi. I used to use the Riverside formula, “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, One God, Mother of us all,” for baptisms. I never thought about it for the final blessing. Now, I will!

]]> http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/calling-god-mother/#comment-25258 Tue, 08 Mar 2016 22:48:25 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=3800#comment-25258 Thanks, this is lovely. I’m pretty sure that woman in the Hildegard picture is in fact meant to represent Mother Church, but Hildegard blurs her allegories…

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