Tag Archives: Holy Spirit

Trinity 2016: Delight

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

Wisdom calls out – the wisdom of God; we may know her as the Holy Spirit. When she is spoken aloud, she becomes the Word. The Word was in the beginning, the yet unspoken, ever articulate Wisdom of God. Only … Continue reading →

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Year C Epiphany 1: Come, Holy Spirit

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

The Gospels take a lot of short cuts through the life of Jesus. Whether they begin at his baptism, as does Mark, when he is already fully grown and ready to set out into the wilderness of temptation, and the … Continue reading →

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Year B Proper 5: bike racks and blasphemy

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

I have a bit of an independent streak, so the other day when the car dealership called to say that the car was fixed, I didn’t want to have to wait for someone else to take me over there to … Continue reading →

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Year B Easter 3: joy and disbelieving

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

Did you ever feel as though you came in halfway through the story? I mean, that’s not always a bad thing: in film school, they teach this technique called in media res for opening sequences, meaning start in the middle … Continue reading →

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First Peter: first thoughts

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Rosalind C Hughes

Haiku towards a reflection on the Flood and the ark as symbols of baptism: 1 Peter 3:13-22, Year A Easter 6 Children of the flood, each of us was drowned at birth, startled to breath.

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Failing Grace

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Rosalind C Hughes

The dark wood, its grain barely illuminated by the stained-glass shafts, invites introspection, the fear of failing, flailing: “Wait! I am not ready,” but it consumed me anyway, half-baked.

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Trinity Sunday 2013

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

(A sermon I won’t be there to preach, ironically because I am “suffering” from shingles. But my love and prayers are with the parish of Epiphany this morning, and I’m so glad to be in a relationship with them.) I … Continue reading →

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Pentecost 2013

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

It was Pentecost. The disciples were gathered all together in one place. And the Holy Spirit came among them like a rush of wind, like the breath of god, the sound of a mighty exhalation, god whispering in what might … Continue reading →

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In bodily form

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

When our bodies betray us, let us down, we berate them, hesitate to call them holy, when, after all, they are the sacrament of God’s creative genius, each featherlight touch a reminder of the love that engendered our creation, redemption, … Continue reading →

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Year B Proper 21: salted with fire

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

It was bedtime, so I gave the fire a stir to make sure it really was dying down, and of course, as fires are wont to do when stirred up, it sprang back into life. So the cat and I … Continue reading →

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