Category Archives: prayer

Decade

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Rosalind C Hughes

Ten years a priest.
I should have something to say,
but I have let words trickle away, 
at funerals or weddings,
during mundane Monday 
phone calls, meetings … Continue reading →

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A prayer on the threshold of the year

Posted on December 31, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

Dear God, are we ready for a new year? Already it is at hand, already it has arrived on distant shores and makes its way towards us like a steam ship, like a migration. Time, your creature, our sibling and companion, orbits us.
How will we greet it: as a child of your mercy or an angel of your justice or an incarnation of your endurance? Continue reading →

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Holy Innocents: transferred

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

There must have been others who retracedtheir ancestors’ footprints over Sinai,although no Moses basket launched upon the Nile;instead, the Innocents wakened from a nightmareby the whisper of a blade, the fadingmemory of mothers’ final, ululating lullaby… Innocence today plays with … Continue reading →

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Emmanuel

Posted on December 24, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

Emmanuel Away from the crush of the crowd and the hubbub of the inn, aside in the stableChrist is born;in the silence that prepares for his first breath,God speaks: “I am with you.”

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The longest night

Posted on December 22, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

Morning after the longest night,like the first day of creationwhen evening fell before the dawn;as the dream goes before awakening,the linened tomb before resurrection,the twilight womb before the birthof the Christ, all partand particular to his Incarnation,this nurturing dark that … Continue reading →

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Because love is the miracle

Posted on December 11, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

Love is what it takes
to make the other
miracles true… Continue reading →

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Advent (the second coming)

Posted on November 26, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

There is no cloud of glory can define, no gates of heaven can confine; there is no dogma, doggerel, or doctrine can describe, no earnest imitation reinscribe him.  Christ’s coming cannot be constrained or restrained by our rituals of mortality.Our candles are dimmed, our illuminated manuscripts … Continue reading →

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Armistice

Posted on November 11, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

It was supposed to be the war to end all wars, but one hundred and three years past the eleventh hour, we are still more accomplished at starting wars than finishing, and as the day digs its way toward noon, … Continue reading →

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Repentance

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

To repent is
in some small, frayed
way to unknit
the fabric … Continue reading →

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What would St Luke say?

Posted on October 18, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

What would St Luke say about getting a booster for the COVID19 vaccine as available? Perhaps it is not too much of a stretch to imagine that he, in sympathy and solidarity with his physician colleagues and support staff would welcome it. Perhaps it is not too forward to imagine that he would promote every measure to keep his community safe and well and together, to relieve the burdens of those who care for the health of others, and to increase the common good.  Continue reading →

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