Falcons From Home | Tameeka Parks ’21

In February 2016, 26 years after high school, I started my collegiate academic career. First, as the last cohort of the New Dimensions program (Cohort 16/04 rocks)! I earned my Associates of Science in Business and Leadership Studies. I am the Class of 2021, due to graduate with my Bachelors in Psychology! What an adventure!

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Easter Sunday 2020

Scripture “Woman, why are you weeping?” John 20:13 Reflection All the evangelists tell the story of Mary Magdalen, the first to announce the resurrection.  Let us walk with Mary on this Easter Sunday.  We really don’t know much about the apostles and followers of Jesus on the Saturday after the crucifixion.  It is an empty

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Good Friday 2020

Scripture “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” Psalm 22:1 Reflection These words spoken by Jesus as He hung on the Cross take on a new relevance and meaning this year.  Our daily news and social media feeds are filled with stories of the advance of COVID-19 across our nation and our world.  Both young

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Holy Thursday 2020

Scripture “If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet.  I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.” John 13: 14-15 Reflection Holy Thursday is a day when Christians traditionally gather together to recall

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Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion

Scripture: The Lord GOD has given me a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back.  I gave my back to those who beat me,

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Fifth Sunday of Lent

Scripture “Untie him and let him go.”  John 11:44 Reflection Of all the Gospel stories, the raising of Lazarus is perhaps one of the most dramatic.  It is layered in meaning and filled with small details which tell us so much about Jesus and about how to live the Christian life.  For our reflection on

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Fourth Sunday of Lent

Scripture “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see might see.” John 9 Reflection On the Fourth Sunday of Lent we read the Gospel of the man born blind.  We hear of his healing, his ability to see, his conversion, his turning toward Jesus.  Every Lent as we prepare for Easter,

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