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A Hobbit Birthday Party, or, the Marriage Supper of the Lamb
Many people are familiar with the film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth in the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies. Have...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Mar 22, 20224 min read
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How Thirsty are You?
How thirsty are you? I mean it. How thirsty are you right now? Have you stopped recently to notice or think about it? When was the last...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Mar 15, 20224 min read
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Learning to Follow
During the season of Lent this year at IHS we are looking at the Way of Love: Practices for a Jesus-Centered Life. You could say that the...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Mar 7, 20222 min read
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Lent 101
Let's do a little bit of "Church 101" to help orient us to what's going on right now, and why it matters for us. The Church follows a...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Mar 1, 20225 min read
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From Glory to Glory
This Sunday marks the end of the season after the Epiphany, with its themes of light and revelation. Though not the feast of the...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Feb 24, 20224 min read
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Let's Be Real
Let's be real for a moment about what it means to be a Christian. A Christian is someone who follows Jesus. Jesus is our Teacher, our...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Feb 15, 20224 min read
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Revelation to Resurrection
I've been reminded lately how much of a need there is in congregations today - well, at least in ours - to return to basics. New...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Feb 1, 20224 min read
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What's Next??
"As soon as you move away from the person of Christ, as soon as you move away from that divine humanity, you're sunk in every direction....

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Jan 20, 20225 min read
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What Is the Most Important Teaching of Christianity? The Hardest One.
So often I think we lose something fundamentally important to what Christianity is: a Way to follow. Jesus teaches us how to live, how to...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Jan 7, 20224 min read
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Throwing Down Stones
Drexel Hill is known for it's beautiful stone buildings. In my opinion, one of the remarkable things about the beauty of IHS and the...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Nov 11, 20215 min read
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The Tears of Jesus
When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Nov 4, 20216 min read
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Some Hard Truths for a Small Church
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to Jesus and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Oct 14, 20217 min read
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God Remembers
This week I took old photographs down from the wall. Each one was a smiling face from the past. Some I haven't seen in a long time....

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Sep 9, 20214 min read
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From Brokenness to Strength
Incarnation Holy Sacrament Episcopal Church is a welcoming and inclusive family of faith. We worship, celebrate, and serve to strengthen...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Aug 25, 20215 min read
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An Easy Mistake to Make
I have a very positive association with bodies of water. I love being on boats, on the open sea, on rivers and creeks, lakes, and even...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Jul 22, 20213 min read
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This is the One Question We Must Answer
"No clever talk or gift to bring requires our lowly, lovely King, come you empty handed, you don't need anything." - mewithoutyou in the...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Jul 14, 20215 min read
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What is church?
I had a conversation with my daughter the other day when we were stopping by the IHS parish hall to drop off some things. She asked me,...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Jul 8, 20213 min read
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The Ministry of Jesus is our Ministry
I'm thankful that in this transition time from pandemic-era style online and restricted gatherings to returning to being in-person...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Jun 24, 20215 min read
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Let's Rethink Everything
Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him; and they...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
Jun 3, 20214 min read
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An Invitation to Mystery
In my Celtic morning prayer ritual every morning I repeat this call and response: Who is it that you seek? We seek the Lord our God. Do...

Fr. Benjamin Gildas
May 26, 20213 min read
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