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Tag Archives: Incarnation
In time
Without time,
can even God make a beginning? Continue reading
Hope in the ashes
There is hope in cold ashes. We do not “do” Lent, we do not approach the fast as those who have no hope, or as though who fear the fire. For God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ash Wednesday, ashes, daffodils, Incarnation, Lent, William Wordsworth
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Stealing a blessing
Christ the King Sunday arrives with less pomp and circumstance than ambiguous authority; a compromised crown; the scandal of the crucifixion. Yet there is a promise to be heard: not only that we, like the thief on the cross whose … Continue reading
Posted in blessings, holy days, lectionary reflection
Tagged Christ the King, crucifixion, Incarnation, Luke 23:39-43, paradise
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Off centre
The hedgerow maze boxes me in, walls me out through another false turn. In the centre hides perfection, unbreakable cypher, impassive God. Out in the margins of error, the elbow crook of one more dead end, lies Jesus, sprawled as though we … Continue reading
Ascension (inversion)
Precipitous falling land & water at the shore where dust turns to clay, matter moulded to our humanity. A low fog confuses earth with its firmament; the mud holds its breath until the star breaks, rising in the east.
Posted in holy days, poetry
Tagged Ascension, fog, Genesis 2:7, Incarnation, mist, prayer, star of bethlehem, weather
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Year C Christmas 1: Incarnate Word
On Thursday morning, in company with many around the world, I was in my kitchen baking Christmas treats and listening to the Festival of Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge. This morning’s gospel lesson was already on my mind … Continue reading
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Tagged Incarnation, nine lessons and carols, poetry and religion, prologue of john, Word made flesh, Word of God
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My kingdom is not of this world
A pre-Advent poem for Christ the King The flag I did not come with fire and flood, but with tender fingertips, in flesh and squalling hunger biting through your resignation, splitting hearts and breaking glory down into its humblest parts, … Continue reading
Year B Easter 7: outside agitators and inside voices
The leaders in Jerusalem, religious and secular, were anticipating with no small degree of anxiety next weekend’s Festival of Weeks, or Pentecost, so called because it fell fifty (pente) days after Passover; a full week of weeks since death was … Continue reading
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Tagged #blacklivesmatter, Acts 1:15-26, Christ, Cleveland, Incarnation, John 17:6-19, Michael Brelo, Pentecost, Tamir Rice
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Healing the holidays homily 2014 edition: holding out on hope
Six months before the Angel Gabriel to earth came down, as the story goes, he was hanging out in Jerusalem, visiting with Zechariah. Zechariah and Elizabeth were much older than Mary – which is not to say that the young … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ, Christmas, despondency, Elizabeth, God, hope, Incarnation, Zechariah
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