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Category Archives: Spiritual Formation

Memorization and Formation — The Phos hilaron (O Gracious Light)

By Lisa | Published: May 20, 2013

People and Friends of the Advocate are invited to participate in a discipline of memorization and formation. At 5:30 each day, wherever we are, we will pause to pray, and will therefore pray together. Gadgets — phones, watches, computers — can be set to remind us. This daily prayer will combine with a discipline of [...]

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Memorization and Formation — Psalm 23

By Lisa | Published: May 11, 2013

People and Friends of the Advocate are invited to participate in a discipline of memorization and formation. At 5:30 each day, wherever we are, we will pause to pray, and will therefore pray together. Gadgets — phones, watches, computers — can be set to remind us. This daily prayer will combine with a discipline of [...]

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Sharing Our Journeys in Eastertide

By Lisa | Published: May 3, 2013

Sharing our Journeys You are invited to share your story. You have one–we all do–and we at the Advocate cherish who you’ve become on your path so far.Sharing our Journeys is special opportunity for people of the Advocate, new and here-for-a-long-time, to get to know other Advocate folks through compassionate, attentive listening, and story-sharing. We [...]

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Beating the Bounds

By Lisa | Published: April 28, 2013

On Saturday, April 27, we gathered on the Advocate land to Beat the Bounds. To learn more about this custom, read our earlier post. Here is our liturgy (prayers written by our Priest Associate, The Rev. Dr. Canon Marilyn McCord Adams).: The people gather at the pond. Priest lights the thurible and blesses a bucket [...]

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Good Shepherd Sunday: A Call to Common Prayer and Formation

By Lisa | Published: April 22, 2013

A sermon offered by the Vicar, Lisa Fischbeck for Good Shepherd Sunday, 2013. The Advocate @ Unity   The year after I graduated from college,I worked for a marketing research firm in Dallas, Texas. And there I befriended Pat, a woman who worked in the firm and whose husband was in the final stages of his [...]

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Holy Week at the Advocate: Carrboro becomes Jerusalem

By Lisa | Published: March 28, 2013

One of the blessings of being a “church without a building” is that we are take our Holy Week liturgies out into the town and country, remembering the experience of Jesus and his followers on the streets of Jerusalem, in the “upper room”, before the councils of church and state, and on the road to [...]

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Imitate, Assimilate, and Innovate. Copy, Claim, Create

By Lisa | Published: March 27, 2013

Sylvia Miller-Mutia is a dancer, mother, and priest, serving as Youth & Family Minister at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco offered this helpful reflection for Episcopal Café: I spent the third week of January up at the Bishop’s Ranch in Healdsburg, CA, for a conference sponsored by All Saints Company on “Music that Makes [...]

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Holy Week Labyrinth Walk

By Lisa | Published: March 22, 2013

An Ecumenical Holy Week Opportunity Open to All     Walking the Labyrinth in the Sanctuary of the Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church 1712 Willow Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Bring & Wear Socks for Walking A Love Offering Will Be Received The walk takes at least 30 minutes    Labyrinth is Available for Walking [...]

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Indulgence (formerly Theology on Tap) Thursday, March 14

By Lisa | Published: March 11, 2013

All are welcome to join the discussion with resident theologian Sam Laurent at Milltown, 307 East Main Street in Carrboro this Thursday, March 14, at 7 PM. We’ll talk about Epiphany and Prophecy, and a Flannery O’Conner quote will help get us started. And if you don’t know what that might mean, don’t worry. As [...]

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Praying Our Lives: A Daily Video from the Society of St. John the Evangelist

By Lisa | Published: March 7, 2013

Join with Anglicans throughout the world this Lent, receiving the blessing of a daily video on prayer from the Society of St. John the Evangelist, the oldest Anglican monastic order for men. To subscribe to receive these videos by email, click here.

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