Category: Liturgical Feasts and Fasts
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Ascension Day Blessing
May Almighty God enlighten the eyes of your heart to see that his blessed Son our Savior Jesus Christ ascended far above the heavens that he might fill all things. Amen. May he who ascended into heaven prepare a place for you; that where he is you might also be, and reign with him in… Read more
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Christos ansesti, Christ is risen (Divna Ljubojevic)
Χριστός ανέστη εκ νεκρών, θανάτω θάνατον πατήσας, και τοις εν τοις μνήμασι ζωήν χαρισάμενος Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life. Read more
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The Stone has been Rolled Away and the Tomb is Empty, Luke 24:1-12
He died but he’s not dead. That’s the paradox of Easter. It’s the story we tell every year. It never changes. It always ends the same way. The stone has been rolled away and the tomb is empty. I can’t explain how it happened but I want to be told again and again that it did… Read more
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Oscar Romero: “Let my blood be a seed of freedom.”
Yesterday was the Feast of Oscar Romero. A comment on yesterday’s post pointed me to The Martyr’s Project and this video about Archbishop Romero. Read more
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On the Feast of Oscar Romero
“A bishop will die, but the Church which is the people will never perish.” – Archbishop Oscar Romero Feast Day, March 24 Read more
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Between the Palms and the Passion is Vulnerability
In some ways today feels like one of confusion and contradiction. Our readings begin on “a colt that has never been ridden” and end “in a rock-hewn tomb where no one had ever been laid.” The disciples “praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen.” “The… Read more
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St. Joseph, a Man of Silence
Today, March 19, the Episcopal Church celebrates the Feast of St. Joseph, his life and faith. St. Joseph was raised up to be the guardian of God’s incarnate Son and the spouse of his virgin mother. The gospel reading for this feast is Luke 2:41-52, the story of Jesus in the temple at the age of twelve.… Read more
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Blindness and Seeing, A Sermon on Luke 2:22-40
Let me tell you a little bit about Simeon, some things you may not know, some things that might surprise you. Simeon is often identified as one of the seventy Hebrew scholars who translated the Old Testament from Hebrew to Greek, what we know as the Septuagent. He surely was aware of Malachi’s prophecy, “The Lord… Read more
Interrupting the Silence 