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Rector's Reflections


From the Rector: Looking ahead to February

From the Rector: Looking ahead to February

Dear Friends, I'm just going to whiplash your Advent/Christmas brains a little and talk about February for a moment. Sound good? Good. This is like getting your snow tires put on before the first snow flies. Before you know it (on Febru...
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From the Rector: Opportunities of togetherness

From the Rector: Opportunities of togetherness

Dear Friends, Last Sunday, it was hard to leave church. An old friend of St. Paul's showed up and hung out with us in the sunshine out front. Children added their voices to our worship reminding us who we are. The music wrapped our hearts in d...
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From the Rector: Full Calendar Ahead!

From the Rector: Full Calendar Ahead!

Dear Friends, If you aren't a regular reader of the full E - pistle , I suggest you read this week. It's that time of year, when things change, launch, and move about (amplified by continued Covid- pivoting, building project ponderings, and ...
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From the Rector: Emerging from a cocoon

From the Rector: Emerging from a cocoon

Dear Friends, This is just a brief note to say thank you for the four weeks off I just enjoyed. Thank you to Katy, Kelvyn, Lynn, and Chris for holding down the fort. Thank you to each leader, preacher, reader, LEM, usher, tech supporter, a...
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Covid Sabbath - June 13 to 25

Covid Sabbath - June 13 to 25

Dear Friends, Back in March, the Bishops and Standing Committee of our diocese sent all the churches a letter urging us to take a "Covid Sabbath". You can read their letter HERE . While they asked us to take a couple weeks off in the first ...
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Rector's Reflection: The Marchiest March Ever

Rector's Reflection: The Marchiest March Ever

Dear Friends, Life lately seems to be about as predictable as March in New England. That is to say; it is not boring, new things are surfacing left and right, and sometimes the cold seems relentless....but only until the sun comes out......
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Rector's Reflection: On Ashes and Blooming

Rector's Reflection: On Ashes and Blooming

Dear Friends, Ash Wednesday this week felt like the first Ash Wednesday I have really experienced in a long time. For various reasons, I have not officiated an Ash Wednesday liturgy in full since 2018. This week with you, was thus li...
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Peace for Ukraine

Peace for Ukraine

Dear Friends, It wasn't until I logged onto our St. Paul's Coffee Chat Thursday morning that I learned about Russia's attack on Ukraine. The reality of this war, the lives lost already, the death and violence still to come has been s...
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Rector's Reflection: Passing the Torch: Vestry Officers

Rector's Reflection: Passing the Torch: Vestry Officers

Dear Friends, I wonder if you know the story (I may have told it before) of the day in Advent 2019 when I came to Gale House to meet with Hamish and Renée about the possibility of becoming your Rector . You had extended an invitation t...
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Rector's Reflection: Keeping in the Loop!

Rector's Reflection: Keeping in the Loop!

Dear Friends, Last night on Compline I mentioned something about a conversation with a developer who is interested in our Gale House land (which we are not necessarily selling), and someone said, "Wait, what? I have been out of the loop fo...
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The Rev. Becky Binns
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    The Rev. Becky Binns

    Rector

    The Rev. Becky Binns joined us in March 2020 as Rector of St. Paul’s. Raised in RI, Becky went to Rhode Island College for her degree in Art Education, but detoured to Togo, West Africa to volunteer with the Peace Corps before launching into her teaching career. When she returned, she taught art for a short time, but ultimately became a Director of Christian Formation which led her to seminary. She attended the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge and received her Masters in Divinity in 2012, the same year that she began an eight year long ministry as Associate Rector of Trinity Church in Concord. Becky is delighted to have found St. Paul’s and to live in Natick now, in our rectory, with her trumpet-playing husband, Greg, and their two children. When not on Zoom, the Binns-Gettel family is having a great time getting to know Natick by bike, foot, and kayak.

    Sermons

    • Jan 22 | The Rev. Becky Binns
      The Call of the Fishermen
    • Jan 15 | The Rev. Becky Binns
      January 15
    • Jan 1 | The Rev. Becky Binns
      January 1
    • Nov 20 | The Rev. Becky Binns
      Cross, Wilderness, Manger
    • Nov 6 | The Rev. Becky Binns
      All Saints Sunday

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