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When Advent meets Christmas
For Mary, Gabriel has opened a portal, a wormhole, an anomaly through which our history, this moment in which the blessed Incarnation is begun, is fused with eternity. Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, annunciation, Christmas, Emmanuel, Incarnation
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When the heavens open
And Jesus: little, embryonic, speck of Jesus; what does he see, from such a soft and secret place? What does he know, from such a small beginning? Continue reading
Posted in advent meditations, holy days, homily, lectionary reflection, sermon, story
Tagged Blue Christmas, Christmas, grief, heaven, infant, loss, pregnancy loss, the visitation
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Wordless
Wordless came the Word of God; not silent, as the night revolved around him snuffling, yawning, suckling, sighing, crying out the love of God, wordless, gazing into the eternity between one body and the next.
Posted in advent meditations, holy days, lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer
Tagged Christmas, John 1:1-18, Word of God
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Gaudete
the Lord has anointed me to bind up the broken-hearted, to comfort all who mourn Continue reading
In all circumstances
“Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. Give thanks in all circumstances.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16 Continue reading
Posted in current events, lectionary reflection, prayer, sermon preparation
Tagged #metoo, Alabama election, race, Year A Advent 3
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God’s time
God’s relationship with our time-bound world is much more poetic and less literal than a counting down of days between the first and the second creation to come. Continue reading
Posted in advent meditations, current events, lectionary reflection, sermon
Tagged Augustine, creation, End Times, science, time, Ussher
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Mangled time: a love story
Advent is not the most comforting season of the liturgical year. It itches with anticipation. It scratches at the walls like a prisoner counting out the days. It mangles time, mixing up what has been with what will be, preparing … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, gospel, keep awake, love story
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Kamehameha and Emma
These two monarchs are commemorated with the same gospel as we read on Christ the King Sunday, because they modelled their reign on public service, serving as shepherds of their people, and feeding the flocks entrusted to them with justice and mercy, except, it seems, for the occasional accident. Continue reading
The Shepherd King
The judgement that Jesus describes is the judgement that the prophet Ezekiel promises to the sheep of God’s hand. “I will feed them with justice,” says the Lord.
And what is the justice with which they are fed? Continue reading
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Tagged Christ the King, Ezekiel 34:11-24, God, judgement, justice, Matthew 25:31-46, mercy, mission, shepherd
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Rendering repentance
we have been charged first to love God, with all of our heart, and mind, and strength, and soul; and then to love our neighbours as ourselves. These are the faces that should open us up, unlock our compassion and our humanity. Continue reading
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