Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Although we cannot hear ourselves sounding through we are nevertheless sounding through to each other. This implies that our real gifts only become known to us when they are recognized and affirmed by those who receive them.” Clowning in Rome Henri Nouwen 001
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 16/03/2026“The word “person” comes from person-are which means “sounding through.” Our vocation in life is to be and increasingly become persons who “sound through” to each other a greater reality than we ourselves fully know … 100
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I liked several months ago when we came across the “women remain silent” passages, Kate Moorehead-Carol in her Office devotional said, “The lectionary slips over those verses today. Well don’t want to. Let’s talk about them.” 000
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 24/09/2025PS. I don’t think the way to do Bible reading is to shy away from the uncomfortable verses. You can’t have an intelligent and investigative discussion about something if you’re not willing to admit/or are fully aware of what is there. 100
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 24/09/2025*loosely* the 1979 Office lectionary skipping over 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 today 100
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 13/09/2025I can’t help but notice how evident the lines between the maximalist social left and the reformist social left these last days have been 000
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 12/09/2025O God, the Father of all, whose Son commanded us to love our enemies: Lead them and us from prejudice to truth: deliver them and us from hatred, cruelty, and revenge; and in your good time enable us all to stand reconciled before you, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 020
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 06/09/2025You know, it’s too bad the ‘79 Office Lectionary doesn’t include James ch. 1 during Proper 17, during which we ask the “the author and giver of all good things” to “increase in us true religion.” 010
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Dear friends, I am going on a couple self retreats - first tomorrow then again in September. I’d appreciate your prayers and any advice you’d have for me. 010
Reposted by LukeJon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 15/08/2025I don’t know how anyone can read without a pencil. 041
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 14/08/2025death and resurrection... with them, the black men and white men, with all life, in him whose Name is above all the names that the races and nations shout... We are indelibly and unspeakably one." Jonathan Myrick Daniels 000
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 14/08/2025"The doctrine of the creeds, the enacted faith of the sacraments, were the essential preconditions of the experience itself. The faith with which I went to Selma has not changed: it has grown.. I began to know in my bones and sinews that I had been truly baptized into the Lord's 100
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 08/08/2025My letter to the Presiding Bishop. Let me know any thoughts if you have the chance. open.substack.com/pub/lukeamaz...open.substack.comTranscending Partisanship: A Response to the Most Rev. Sean Rowe's Independence Day PieceDear Bishop Rowe, 000
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 30/07/2025or does it imply an eventual end of an era, implying the king described by the Psalmist bound by the creation to some extent? Could the Gospel reading be seen as an expansion of the prophetic description of the Messiah? 100
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Sitting in the tension of the Office Gospel reading of Jesus’ spiritual authority above the elements of creation: physical lack, over the weather, and sickness—alongside Psalm 72 “He shall live as long as the sun and moon endure.” Is the endurance of the moon or sun a poetic symbol of eternity or 100
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices. -- St. Teresa of Avila 010
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Here’s a piece I wrote on finding faith & spirituality after deconstruction. Big thank you to @earthandaltarmag.com for my first online publication. Thank you, @anachronistben.bsky.social, for the opportunity and your insightful editing. earthandaltarmag.com/posts/v29jyh...earthandaltarmag.comRECONSTRUCTING IN THE ANGLICAN ORCHARD — Earth and AltarThe Christianity of my high school was a leaning overgrown tree, its roots intertwined with invasive undergrowth and creatures sheltering in its branches. My school affirmed the historic dogmas of the... 020
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Tasted God’s everlasting grace this morning at church. Thanks be to God! Happy Sunday! 020
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 28/06/2025other hand, attaching man to God by His own incarnation, and bestowing upon us at His coming immortality durably and truly, by means of communion with God — all the doctrines of the heretics fall to ruin. St. Irenaeus 010
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Since the Lord thus has redeemed us through His own blood, giving His soul for our souls, and His flesh for our flesh, and has also poured out the Spirit of the Father for the union and communion of God and man, imparting indeed God to men by means of the Spirit, and, on the 120
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 21/06/2025#MorningPrayer on Long Beach Island, NJ Glorify the Lord, O mountains and hills, and all that grows upon the earth, praise him and highly exalt him for ever. … All birds of the air, glorify the Lord, * praise him and highly exalt him for ever. 000
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 21/06/2025A simplistic take of a thorough and evidence-citing piece. I agree with Vines that critiquing the movement or strategy in an effort for progress is not the same thing as being anti-LGBTQ. I suppose we see it differently and I respect your right to. I hope you offer the same in return 000
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 20/06/2025“When you position yourself against social norms simply because they are norms,…, and when you relentlessly push the envelope for the sake of shock value, you are asking for a backlash.” 000
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 20/06/2025A worthwhile read by Matthew Vines “We desperately need to recover our ability to make real progress again. But getting there will require… [a] return to the appeal to common humanity that once made it so successful. …it would indeed be something to be proud of.” substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comThe Paradox of PrideVisibility matters—but it cuts both ways. 110
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Sometimes I have a hard time bridging my gay Episcopal niche with my career in performing arts but thanks to theology nerd assistant stage managers, I have the encouragement I need for my posh British hotel manager scene 🤣 020
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 14/06/2025in our worship of you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; ever one God, for ever and ever. Amen. 000
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Almighty God, who has revealed to your church your eternal Being of glorious majesty and perfect love as one God in Trinity of Persons: Give us grace that, like your bishop Basil of Caesarea, we may continue steadfastly in the confession of this faith and remain constant 120
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 13/06/2025holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. 000
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Almighty and everliving God, who through the Book of Common Prayer restored the language of the people in the prayers of your church: Make us always thankful for this heritage; and help us so to pray in the Spirit and with understanding, that we may worthily magnify your 120
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 12/06/2025conception of virtue, from which she has drawn the life of grace, to fix her eye on the needs of her neighbor in particular.” -God to Catherine of Siena Dialogue 000
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 12/06/2025"When she has discovered the advantage of this unitive love in Me, by means of which, she truly loves herself, extending her desire for the salvation of the whole world, thus coming to the aid of its neediness, she strives, inasmuch as she has done good to herself by the 100
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 11/06/2025and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. 000
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Grant, O God, that we may follow the example of your faithful servant Barnabas, who, seeking not his own renown but the well-being of your Church, gave generously of his life and substance for the relief of the poor and the spread of the Gospel; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives 110
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 08/06/2025“like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 2:5 NRSV Happy Pentecost! 010
Reposted by LukeDave Langille @cdnusboy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Come Holy Spirit, come like a fire and burn. Come like a wind and cleanse. Convict, convert, and consecrate our hearts to our great good and to your great glory. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. --Fleming Rutledge (The Pentecost Window, Messiah, St. Paul) ⚓ 0103
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 08/06/2025"…a man proves his patience on his neighbor, when he receives injuries from him. "Similarly, he proves his humility on a proud man, his faith on an infidel, his true hope on one who despairs, his justice on the unjust, his kindness on the cruel, his gentleness and benignity on the irascible.” 110
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Part of it is definitely my work schedule. Was finally able to find out that 7:30 Rite I services have begun so I can make those. I was having to drive to Manahawkin to the lovely people at St. Stephen’s but just not reasonable before a long day of rehearsal 010
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Reading Catherine of Siena’s Dialogue at the right time 😭 in the best most humbling way 000
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 06/06/2025I love how the easiest access I’ve had to an Episcopal church while on Long Beach Island is the community space where my theatre’s currently rehearsing. 110
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 03/06/2025My sister got me a Kindle for Christmas and it has been the best gift - I can find LFF, EOW, writings of church fathers or medieval saints all online and upload them to my Kindle. Liturgy and ancient Christianity on my e-reader in minutes! 010
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 03/06/2025"And it cannot be otherwise, because love of Me and of her neighbor are one and the same thing, and, so far as the soul loves Me, she loves her neighbor, because love towards him issues from Me.” -Catherine of Siena Dialogue 020
Luke @lukeamazooka.bsky.social · 02/06/2025O God, who has given your church wisdom and revealed to it deep and secret things: Grant that we, like your servant Justin and in union with his prayers, may find your Word an abiding refuge all the days of our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, 110