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Grace Church in Sheldon and St. Luke’s in St. Albans have formed the newest constellation in the Diocese of Vermont, pledging to share clergy and collaborate on mission. The Rev. Darcey Mercier will serve as priest-in-charge for both congregations. Mercier is a 2022 graduate of Seminary of the Southwest, and was sponsored for ordination by St. Michael’s, Brattleboro. “So many people…

From May 12 to 16, members of the diocese will make a pilgrimage to Alabama and Georgia to explore civil rights history and the work of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). This five-day journey will include visits to: Cost for the pilgrimage is $1,300 for double-occupancy rooms and $1,600 for single-occupancy rooms. The cost covers airfare, ground transportation,…

During the pandemic lockdown, the people of Calvary Episcopal Church in Underhill could take heart knowing their junior warden, Audie Cota, was checking in on the building regularly. Cota, who lives nearby, carried out this and other duties of junior warden, all while juggling schoolwork. “I think I was 13 at that time,” Cota says….

Bishop Shannon MacVean-Brown arrived in Vermont just a few months before COVID lockdowns began and on the cusp of a churchwide clergy shortage. In 2021, as the diocese’s congregations began to emerge from pandemic lockdowns, she realized that they would need to adapt to the changed world they found by collaborating and innovating. “We cannot…

“Lent is a season of self-denial and reflection, penitence, and discipline,” the Rev. adwoa Wilson, the Green Mountain Online Abbey’s vicar for discipleship and formation, says. “However, author Martin L. Smith notes that ‘it is also a time of freedom, when the Spirit of God urges us to be open to the central experiences of…

“And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.” Luke 2:7 On this holy night, Jesus came into the world in the most ordinary place, in the most ordinary way imaginable. Out of…

The Liturgy Commission of the Diocese of Vermont will offer a 4-session Morning Prayer leadership training course Tuesday evenings, January 10, 17, 24, and 31 from 6:30 – 8 p.m. on Zoom. This course is open to those who have been recommended by their priest or, in congregations with no priest, their senior warden. Congregations…

The Rev. adwoa Wilson, the Green Mountain Online Abbey‘s new vicar for discipleship and formation, will offer a series focused on the Book of Revelation during Advent. “Why the Book of Revelation? Well, before Advent was relegated to its stature as a pre-Christmas opening act, it was for the church a precious season of promise…

By Annie Landenberger The apartment had been intended as temporary shelter, but eight months after a family of Afghan refugees moved in, it shows signs of hominess, especially when Zakira, a first-year high school student, whose family fled Afghanistan at the end of the U.S. war there, set out pistachios and olives for tea. “School…