2020 – Page 53 – Episcopal Cafe

Be Still – a musical offering

May 24, 2020 No Comments

“This album was recorded in the Spring of 2020, the compositions on this album began as a series of Lent meditations on the spiritual life.”

2FAB: The Saints Justinae

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There are a couple of St Justinas, from Padua and Antioch, and both martyrs

“At a pause from daily life
When all grows quiet and still
When you have brought yourself to a peaceful pause in the seeming doldrums of this life
And beginning to see things as they truly are
There comes a clamoring…”

Training Wheels and Now

May 24, 2020 1 Comment

“So now I bake bread at home. I have time to mix and wait and kneed and wait and kneed and wait and bake. And I eat the hot bread with wine at night but in the morning – especially Sunday mornings, I eat the hot bread with salted butter made by Irish people and cows with raspberry jam which reminds me more of blood than the wine ever did. Or my sins.”

Pray Tenderly

May 24, 2020 No Comments

“We are all beloved servants of God, heirs to the kin-dom of divine love. But we are in a world that does not see this. We ourselves are apt to put belief in societal constructs, family affiliations, and clan-like organizations ahead of neighbor to neighbor caring. Unlearning all that can be dangerous and intimidating.”

Psalm 77 Speaks In Timeless Voice

May 23, 2020 No Comments

“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.”

Coronavirus Reflection

May 23, 2020 8 Comments

“She stroked his head, asked after his rings. A nurse removed one, a cameo ring his father had found. I removed the other, his wedding ring, given to her to put on his hand by a priest 56 years ago, now removed by a priest and given back to her. She clutched them to her heart and said she’d soon see him again.”

Making Changes

May 23, 2020 No Comments

“That led me to ponder how things, even sacred things like scripture, may need to be changed to fit a situation, ceremony, event, or artist’s concept. Painters and sculptors have taken Bible stories and, through their culture, imagination, and wishes of the patron commissioning the work, have dressed characters in period costume rather than in clothing of the Biblical time. Poets and writers described people and actions to convey how they perceived the characters and situations to have been at the time, although often throwing in emotions, activities, and thoughts of the current time.”