Day 6: Cruising into Mykonos Pilgrimages make demands of each person: engagement, focus, physical exertion, mental and spiritual energy. Today’s pilgrimage destination demanded rest. We embarked on our Aegean Sea cruise at 11:30 and pulled out of the port near Athens at 1pm with Mykonos as...
Day 5: Temple of Apollo and the Omphalos Today we walked The Sacred Way in Delphi: the Athenian Treasury, the Temple of of Apollo, and the Theater. The Delphic archeological site is also home to the Pythian oracle and the ompalos—the navel, or center, or the world, according to Ancient...
Day 3: Alexander, Paul, and Lydia walk into…Philippi We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this...
Days 1 & 2: oh Crikey, I’m heading to Thessaloniki! Friends, I arrived at IAH quite early for an 9:00 flight but it was well worth it considering it took a while to get through security. Even though Houston is an huge city I run into a fair few of you out and about and the...
Day Zero: Intro Grace and Peace to you, Beloved Palmers, "We must always give thanks to God for you, siblings, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing..." Paul wrote...
When I was very little, coins were knotted into the corner of a pretty, freshly-ironed handkerchief so that they would not slip through my small fingers before they reached the collection plate on Sunday morning. An outdated and quaint practice even then, the little ritual was...
I am a parishioner at Palmer and if you attended the 11:00 Rite I Eucharist on Sundays before the lockdown you may remember me as a greeter and usher. Since I first came to Palmer more than 16 years ago, I have been a member, or as we call ourselves, a “sister,” in the Women’s...
I am a member of the Altar Guild at Palmer, a greeter on Sunday mornings and I serve as coordinator for parishioners’ pastoral needs when they seek treatment in the Texas Medical Center. For the last 20 years, I have volunteered my time a few blocks away from Palmer visiting cancer...
I am a member of Palmer’s Funeral Guild and serve as a lector for Sunday worship. Before we began socially distancing last year when COVID hit our city, you may have seen me serve as an usher at our Rite I service at 11:00. And for some years now I have been leading my fellow Palmers...
I am a longtime member of Palmer and I sing in the Palmer Choir. When I was asked to share an I Am Palmer essay on the choir experience during the pandemic, I was delighted but at the same time a bit overwhelmed trying to put into words what this past year has been like. Thinking back to last...
