Interrupting the Silence

Category: Church Seasons

  • The Season of Advent – Holy Waiting and Watching

    A new liturgical year begins this coming Sunday, November 29, 2009, with the First Sunday of Advent. The Season of Advent consists of the four Sundays before Christmas. The liturgical color for Advent is purple or sometimes blue. We will begin a new liturgical cycle of seasons, feasts and fasts, and scripture lessons. This year Read more

  • The Season After Pentecost – Ordinary Time

    The Feast of Pentecost, one of the Church’s principal feasts, was celebrated just a few days ago on Sunday, May 31, 2009. We have now entered the Season after Pentecost. The Sundays during this time all seem the same. The liturgical color stays green and not much changes. There are few major feasts or celebrations. Read more

  • Do I Understand Holy Week?

    As I reflect on this past Holy Week and our Easter celebration I keep returning to the question, “Do I understand Holy Week?” The short answer, and perhaps the most honest, is no, not really. I know the story. I even preach the story. I can describe the events of Holy Week but there is Read more

  • The Archbishop of Canterbury Reflects on Easter

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  • Easter Blessings

    Yesterday I was crucified with Christ; today I am glorified with him. Yesterday I was dead with him; today I am sharing in his resurrection. Yesterday I was buried with him; today I am waking with him from the sleep of death. – Gregory Nazianzen Who can understand love but he who loves? I am Read more

  • Holy Saturday – Tomb Work

    Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world Read more

  • A Good Friday Reflection

    “We glory in your cross, O Lord, and praise and glorify your holy resurrection; for by virtue of your cross joy has come to the whole world. May God be merciful to us and bless us, show us the light of his countenance, and come to us. Let your ways be known upon earth,your saving Read more

  • The Crucifixion by St. John of the Cross

    This drawing was made by St. John of the Cross, probably between 1574 and 1577. He was praying in a loft overlooking the sanctuary at the Monastery of the Incarnation in Avila, Spain.  He received a vision and then sketched what he had beheld. One wonders if this might be the Father’s view of the Read more

  • We Need Each Other’s Feet – A Maundy Thursday Reflection

    The Proper Liturgy for Maundy Thursday – perhaps more than any other liturgy of the year – is about intimacy, revealed in dinner and a bath. Intimacy is the reason many show up to this liturgy. It is also the reason many more do not. Intimacy is the reason a few will wash and be Read more