A Holy Place for Holy Week
Mar 30, 2017
Holy Week is fast upon us, with Palm Sunday little more than a week away. In drama, in liturgy and in the Sacraments we will journey through the most important week of the year. The world has managed to distort Christmas into sentimentality and...
Writing Love with One's Body
Mar 23, 2017
On Maundy Thursday we commemorate the fact that Jesus knelt to wash not the faces or hands -- but the feet -- of his disciples. He humbled himself to take their feet, crusted with dirt from the unpaved roads of the day, and wipe them clean. When...
A Joyful Glimpse in the Midst of Lent
Mar 16, 2017
A central aspect of the Christian journey is to see in Jesus the ability to dare to enjoy life. In spite of and in the midst of conditions which can be abrasive, harsh, competitive, agonizing, dispiriting, diminishing, and full of combative...
An Uncommon Welcome
Mar 10, 2017
As we gather Sunday by Sunday -- and during the week -- during this interim period, and as the search committees and vestry take up the important tasks of writing a parish profile and putting in place a discernment process, it is worth...