Holden Village Prayer Service

The last Holy Cross Advent service was a blessed 'thin place."   Marcus Borg writes that a thin place is anywhere our hearts are opened; he explains, it is one of those places where the veil between the visible world of our ordinary experience and the sacred presence of God momentarily lifts. Actually, it is a term from Celtic Christianity.


Our Pastors Jim and Jan have led us through the Holden Village Evening Prayer Service, most of it sung, Evening Hymn, Evening Thanksgiving , "Let my prayer rise up like incense before you..." and The Magnificat.    Last night Pastor Jim gave the homily on the words "Have no Fear."  It appears in the Bible 17 times, he told us, and those words were spoken by angles and by Jesus. Have no fear, he concluded.  It is such a comfort.  


  No humbug here, only Christmas.