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Palm Sunday 2024

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Rosalind C Hughes

If we are still looking for a military ruler, or a magician, or a mighty Messiah, we had better look elsewhere. What Jesus offers us is merely the humility, servitude, self-sacrifice, self-abandonment of an all-encompassing, death-defeating love: the creative, life-giving, all-absorbing love of God that will not let us go, nor let us down, nor leave us alone. Continue reading →

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Book Review: Dessert First – Preparing for Death while Savoring Life, by J. Dana Trent

Posted on September 2, 2019 by Rosalind C Hughes

So why does a book about death and grieving have such an odd title? Death is coming for each of us, so we might as well embrace our mortal life and enjoy it, grief and all, with all of its sweetness, tartness, and saltiness. Continue reading →

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Salt and sabbatical

Posted on September 30, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

But that is the theology of Thomas the Tank Engine, who longs only to hear the Fat Controller call him “a useful little engine.” It is not the theology found in the Bible nor in the Word of God, Jesus the Christ, who celebrates the meek and the helpless, the poor in spirit and the hopeless, the errant and the outcast, the ungodlike. Continue reading →

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Some things make me sad

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

Some things make me sigh. Recently, I admitted that I did not believe that I would ever fully understand the Resurrection, or the Incarnation, or God, or the Sacraments… We are called to love God with all of our minds, … Continue reading →

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