The Parson Carson

A few #moon photos (Canon powershot 50X, 1st one cropped) #space #nightsky #solarsystem

Gratitude Challenge day #3 - PLUS…enjoy these gorgeous #Fall leaves! 🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 #voting #voice #vote #gratitude #gratitudechallenge

Join in if and when you can 🙏🏻 #ElectionDay

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White Heron Rises Over Blackwater ~ by Mary Oliver (1935-2019) ~ be sure to watch the clip of her reading here: facebook.com/share/v/1JTDq4Y… I wonder what it is that I will accomplish today if anything can be called that marvelous word. It won’t be my kind of work, which is only putting words on a page, the pencil haltingly calling up the light of the world, yet nothing appearing on paper half as bright as the mockingbird’s verbal hilarity in the still unleafed shrub in the churchyard – or the white heron rising over the swamp and the darkness, his yellow eyes and broad wings wearing the light of the world in the world – ah yes, I see him. He is exactly the poem I wanted to write. ~ photo by me 😊 (you must imagine its rising!)

Today, November 3, The Episcopal Church offers a commemoration of Richard Hooker, Priest and Theologian, 1600. Collect (Prayer) for the Day: O God of truth and peace, you raised up your servant Richard Hooker in a day of bitter controversy to defend with sound reasoning the great charity of the catholic and reformed religion: Grant that we may maintain that middle way, not as a compromise for the sake of peace, but as a comprehension for the sake of truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. According to “Holy Women, Holy Men”: “In any list of Anglican theologians, Richard Hooker’s name would stand high, if not first. He was born in 1553 in Heavitree, near Exeter, and was admitted in 1567 to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow ten years later. After ordination and marriage in 1581, he held a living in Buckinghamshire. In 1586 he became Master of the Temple, in London. Later, he served country parishes in Boscombe, Salisbury, and Bishopsbourne near Canterbury. A controversy with a noted Puritan led Hooker to prepare a comprehensive defense of the Reformation settlement under Queen Elizabeth I. This work, his masterpiece, was entitled Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. Its philosophical base is Aristotelian, with a strong emphasis upon natural law eternally planted by God in creation. On this foundation, all positive laws of Church and State are grounded–from Scriptural revelation, ancient tradition, reason, and experience. Book Five of the Laws is a massive defense of the Book of Common Prayer, directed primarily against Puritan detractors. Hooker’s arguments are buttressed by enormous patristic learning, but the needs of the contemporary worshiper are paramount, and he draws effectively on his twenty-year experience of using the Book. Hooker’s vast learning, and the quality of his style, reveal him to be a man of moderate, patient, and serene character. Concerning the nature of the Church, Hooker wrote: ‘The Church is always a visible society of men; not an assembly, but a Society. For although the name of the Church be given unto Christian assemblies, although any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of the Church, yet assemblies properly are rather things that belong to a Church. Men are assembled for performance of public actions; which actions are being ended, the assembly dissolveth itself and is no longer in being, whereas the Church which was assembled doth no less continue afterwards than before.’ Pope Clement VIII is reported to have said that Hooker’s work ‘had in it such seeds of eternity that it would abide until the last fire shall consume all learning.’”

3 of 3 A sunset walk on The Munter Trail in #Potsdam, #NY 😊🍁🍂🍁🍂 Happy #November y’all!!

2 of 3 A sunset walk on The Munter Trail in #Potsdam, #NY 😊🍁🍂🍁🍂 Happy #November y’all!!

1 of 3 A sunset walk on The Munter Trail in #Potsdam, #NY 😊🍁🍂🍁🍂 Happy #November y’all!!

I made ☀️“Sunshine chips”☀️ for lunch today! Squash, carrots, cheese, seasonings. These are SOOOOOOO GOOOOD!! #eat #yum #cook #squash #carrots #lunch #cheese #create #chips

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Y’all know I am obsessed with “sky things” so here are some photos of a couple of dramatically wild thunderstorms on my way home through #Syracuse today! At one point, I did pull off the road. #NYWX #upstatenyweather #nyweather

Scenes from our #EDOA #EpiscopalDioceseofAlbany

Scenes from our #EDOA #EpiscopalDioceseofAlbany

Scenes from our #EDOA #EpiscopalDioceseofAlbany

First firepit of the season for me! I also took some time to pick up sticks in the church yard - yay free kindling! #campfire #outside #evening #chill #northcountry #upstateny

Scenes around the #SUNYCanton trail #UpstateNY #newyork

Scenes around the #SUNYCanton trail #UpstateNY #newyork