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• Reflection for Friday, October 24, 2025

      By: Rev. Katie Hudak

We often scurry around like the critters that are stocking up on their food supplies for the winter at this time of year. The holidays are coming up. We have the Day of the Dead, Thanksgiving, La Vírgen de Guadalupe, Christmas, and Kwanza, and New Year’s in our sights. Many folks also treat Halloween as if it were a national holiday! We want the holidays to be perfect, so we start buying things in October, or quite often, even earlier in the year, perhaps as early as June or with Christmas in July. I know many people who go to all the sales on December 26th each year to by all of the perfect things that they need for the next year’s holiday celebrations. This year, let’s try and take the pressure off to be perfect, and enjoy the imperfections at these holidays that can be just as beautiful!

• Reflection for E Newsletter for October 17, 2025
  By: Rev. Katie Hudak
  There will be a number of demonstrations throughout the country tomorrow, Saturday October 18, 2025. The demonstrations are known as No Kings Day 2.0 Wherever we may find ourselves politically, and whether or not we are in favor of or not in favor of the goals of these demonstrations that will take place in Lincoln City, Newport, and throughout the entire state of Oregon and the entire country, let us remember that Jesus asked us to love our enemies, to do good to those who hate and abuse us, and to do unto others as we want them to do to us.  Let’s keep the signs that we may carry respectful, even while they are forceful. Protect each other, live in peace, and promote constructive dialogue.

• Prior Weekly Reflections

• Bishop Budde's Sermon at the 2025 Inaugural Prayer Service at the National Cathedral in Washington: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwaEuDeqM8

• Interview of our new Presiding Bishop, Sean Rowe. It was so inspiring that I had to watch it again! Here is the link and I encourage you to listen to at least the first 15-20 minutes.  https://www.episcopalchurch.org/publicaffairs/presiding-bishop-sean-rowe-discusses-vision-for-our-future-at-epn-conference/