Rev Mibi

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Sermon for Sunday, July 22, 2012 Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 “Come Away”

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As you know, I’ve just come back from vacation. It was not your conventional vacation. Yes, Doug and I went to Ireland, but we did...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

Ballyvaughan Chronicles - Lost and Found

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You know that moment, don't you, when all the other passengers on the airplane have left the baggage claim and you are still standing th...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Ballyvaghan Chronicles - Identity

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There have been times when I was doing my work as an Episcopal priest that I felt like a fraud. Not in the sense that I was trying to do o...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Ballyvaughan Chronicles - Poet's Corner

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The fragrant smoke of the peat rises from the hearth    wraps around us all,    cossetting us in a warm otherland As the poet stands befo...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Ballyvaughan Chronicles - Bread of Life

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Limerick:  In Eire they make wholemeal bread, Of which, on occasion, ’tis said, With butter spread thick, It will cure you if sick, An...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Ballyvaughan Chronicles - 6-11-2012

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Since I was twenty, I firmly believed in the line from one of Ezra Pound's Cantos: "That which thou lovest is thy true heritage...
Sunday, July 01, 2012

Sermon for Sunday, July 1, 2012 Mark 5:21-43 “Cure-All”

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So did anybody around here think about healthcare this week? Just kidding. It was hard to miss, what with the Supreme Court su...
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mibi52/ The Rev. Dr. Mary Brennan Thorpe
Richmond, VA, United States
A second (actually fifth) career Episcopal priest, I am serving as Director of Transition Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. I help parishes find priests and priests find new calls.How did a RC convent girl with a Teamster shop-steward dad end up here? Married to Pastoral Husband, AKA PH, an ordained minister and full-time pastoral counselor. Three kids from the prior marriage: Strong Opinions, artistic 30 y.o. girl trying on the world for size, Stonemason, 32 y.o. guy working with his hands in the North Country, Litigator, highly verbal 34 y.o. with aspirations to be the next Michael Moore. Two stepsons, 4 step grandkids, a cat. Way too many books.Well, there are never too many books...
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