At first I was imagining something new for this year…but then I thought about the liturgy and how we hear the stories of our faith told in cycles and spirals, circles and ever expanding circles. I keep returning to this poem on Christmas Day because it’s a message that isn’t getting old. It’s a message that moves…
Advent IV/ Christmas 2023
Merry Christmas, all…
The Comfort of Two Readings
Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God… So begins the first reading of today’s liturgy and my first reading of the day… when I first read it, many different images all came to mind and heart. Some of them were from the news…the tents down the street, soldiers walking the streets in different…
Advent I, 2023
Since there is no fourth week of Advent this year, the last Sunday of Advent being Christmas Eve, I decided to start the series a little earlier this year. I’ve done this for…? Maybe twenty years? It is a way that I draw down and in for this season…and I’ve come to enjoy sharing them…
Homily for Sunday, 26 November: Feast of Christ the King
Was my turn to preach today… Christ the King. Not an image I turn to often, but nonetheless, the name of the Feast and an opportunity to consider what that might mean in terms of how leadership is viewed. I am a child of the northern half of the northern hemisphere. This time of year…
As I travel in my chair, praying…
An updated entry from years ago, now…and no less true. Happy 223rd Birthday to the Society of the Sacred Heart! Sitting here in my usual morning chair, praying…I close my eyes and cruise around the world…to different political/humanitarian situations… to sisters I know…to provinces I know and provinces I have not yet seen…and I spiral…
These are the Elements: A poem composed after Communion
Composed After Communion at Saint Andrew’s, 14 November, 2023 These are the elementsof earth and all withinand all before and what will be.We too are the elements, we who spark and shine, cleave, combust, create.When these, the bread, the wine,are taken in together as onewe know again the Great Becoming—All elements, one table,one Source, one awakening.We are each…
Shadow, Light, and Hope: Sometimes things Converge
I put a post up this past Saturday that included the well known quotation from Julian of Norwich and an add-on from me: All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well. For there is a force of love moving through the universe that holds us fast…
Consider the Lilies 