Due to the recent disruption of the COVID-19 virus, our monthly Romeo & Juliet gatherings cannot meet, but we can still connect. Each Friday we will publish ”REC Legacy History: Readings Performed by Sam Gilliam.”
Click on each link to listen to the stories:
Friday, April 17: A reading of Stella Brown’s Preface to the 50th Anniversary Book
Friday, April 24: The creation of our Church and its Sacred Spaces
Friday, May 1: A letter from Sam Todd
Friday, May 8: A letter from Kip Ashmore, Assistant Rector under Fr. Sam Todd, Rec’s second rector
Friday, May 15: A letter from Rev. Mark Bigley
Friday, May 22: Letters from the Rev. Doug Earle and the Rev. Mary Earle
Friday, May 29: A letter from Rev. Jane Patterson
Friday, June 5: A letter from Rev. Craig MacColl
Friday, June 12: Letters from Rev. David Wendel and Rev. Matt Wise
Friday, June 19: A reading of the 50th Anniversary Celebration letter from Rev. Judy
Friday, June 26: A letter from Rev. Robert Woody
Friday, July 3: A reflection from Bruce Flohr
Friday, July 10: Reflections from Ed Reischling and Rusty Wilson
Friday, July 17: Reflections from Phyllis Kline and Sally Scurlock
Friday, July 24: Roxie, Barry, Mr. Fuzzy and Robert
Friday, July 31: An essay by Joan West
Friday, August 7: An essay by Patsy and Edwin Sasek
Friday, August 14: Essays by Garnet Szurek, Gordon West, and Jana Orsinger
Friday, August 21: Two essays are read, the first by Alfred Florence and George Zayas, and the second by Claudia Smokey Kiel
Friday, August 28: An essay by Steve Gilliam
Friday, September 4: A poem by Charles Daniels
Friday, September 11: Poems by Ed Reischling and Jana Orsinger
Friday, September 18: A memory written by Janet Flohr
Friday, September 24: Short stories from fellow Reconcilers
Friday, October 2: An essay by Sylvia Maddox
Friday, October 9: An essay written by Ed Reischling
Friday, October 16: The history of our Season of Creation
Friday, October 30: Broken Windows by Mrs. Barrington
Friday, November 6: Broken Windows with Mrs. Barrington, Part two
Friday, November 13: Home, Part One, by Mrs. Barrington
Friday, November 20: Home, Part Two, by Mrs. Barrington
Friday, November 27: An article written by Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex for Thanksgiving 2020
Friday, December 4: A Christmas story from Iowa
Friday, December 11: A memory by Ed Reischling
Friday, December 18: A reading from A Christmas Memory, by Truman Capote
Friday, December 25: “The Innkeeper’s Wife”
Friday, January 1, 2021: Celebrating all creatures, the non-human kind, throughout 2020!
Friday, January 8, 2021: To Bless the Space Between Us
Friday, January 15, 2021: Mrs. Barrington story, entitled, “Fertile Soil”, Part One
Friday, January 22, 2021: Mrs. Barrington’s first story, “Fertile Soil”; Parts Two and Three
Friday, January 29, 2021: Maya Angelou’s memoir, Why the Caged Bird Sings
Friday, February 5, 2021: A presentation by Mrs. Barrington to the 2014 Annual Diocesan Council, entitled, “Blessing”
Friday, February 12,2021: A series of Church Bulletin Announcements
Friday, February 26, 2021: An essay by Roxie Montesano, entitled “Evening Prayer”
Friday, March 5, 2021: The story of the Samaritan Woman at the Well
Friday, March 19, 2021: Acts of Kindness
Friday, April 2, 2021: Being of Light
Friday, May 7, 2021: Tree Beings
Friday, May 14, 2021: First Story in the Tree Beings book.
Friday, May 21, 2021: A Lesson from Tree Beings
Friday, June 4, 2021: Margaret Mary Consuela Josephine O’Malley’s Chicken
Friday, June 11, 2021: Living in the Jungle