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Dear St. Christopher’s Family,
Do you remember what you did with your last summer vacation? It’s been a long time since I was a classroom teacher, but even now when June starts to heat up, I can sense that summer is close. At our school, Purvi, Sarah, and all of the teachers are shifting gears and settling into our summer “camp” program. Even though they’ll be coming to “school” during the summer, the atmosphere becomes a lot less strict as the emphasis will be more on learning to enjoy learning.
We really don’t take “summer vacation” from church. How can we? We depend on our connection with each other and with the Lord. And as we all learned during the long Coronatide, we are particularly dependent on receiving the Body and Blood of Christ here in the Eucharist.
But there is a noticeable difference in a parish’s life over the summer. We speak about a “program year” that tracks consistently with school summer vacations. I found even as a teacher I needed these couple of months as a chance to find my center as a teacher again and become excited to welcome a new group of students in the fall. We need something like this in our own learning and our own life as People of Faith. What habits have we had that we wish we’d kept up? Reading? Exercise? And, dare I ask, Prayer?
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