Roy's Ramblings Today is truly the epitome of the phrase “It’s Friday but Sunday is Coming!!” Good Friday is the darkest day of the Christian year - the day we remember that Jesus died, that the sky turned black, the curtain...

Roy's Ramblings So, this coming Sunday is Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week, Palm/Passion Sunday, the Triumphal Entry Sunday. What exactly does that mean? Well, it starts as celebration - waving of Palm Leaves, the reading of...

Roy's Ramblings So for Lent this year we have been looking at the Apostle’s Creed and breaking it down piece by piece looking deeper into what we believe as Christians. But, we are also of the denomination know as The United...

Roy's Ramblings There is much going on this weekend. As all of us probably already know, Ann Callahan passed into the next world and is living eternally in glory and her Celebration of Life will be Saturday (03/30) including...

Roy's Ramblings Lent is a season of forty days, not counting Sundays, which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday. The English word “Lent” comes from the Anglo–Saxon word lencten, which means “lengthen” and...

Roy's Ramblings So I’m coming off of a week of vacation - sights, sounds, rest, and reconnecting with family and friends. So we started the week with a trip to Dayton Ohio to see Lauren’s Dad. While we were there we also went...

Roy's Ramblings When I was in High School a number of my friends were practicing Roman Catholics…most of us who know any Catholics know what that means for the Lenten season: fish on Fridays, Mass on Sundays, and the Lenten...

Roy's Ramblings This Sunday is Transfiguration Sunday. The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew...

Roy's Ramblings So this has been an interesting week … starting with rain turning to ice, snow on that, bitter cold with more snow. So no church last week, school has been called off for four of the five days and (if it wasn’t...

Roy's Ramblings Happy Valentines Day! A day for lovers to show their feelings toward another with: chocolate, flowers, and jewelry … or it is a day that Hallmark, Florists, and Big Box Stores make money. Oh, don’t get me wrong...