Giving thanks in hard times
November 25, 2010
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Those who sowed with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying the seed, will come again with joy, shouldering
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St. Francis and Vida Scudder: tenacity and poverty
October 10, 2010
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The appearance of the commemoration of Vida Dutton Scudder on our calendar today may occasion the recent memory of Francis of Assisi, who appeared on the calendar last Monday. Scudder had a few thoughts of her own on the important work of the Franciscans.
John Henry Newman and the bending and shaping of church history
September 15, 2010
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In spite of those who claim Newman was a democratizing figure within the Church – the great defender of individual conscience – the conservative Pope Benedict thinks “It was from Newman that we learned to understand the primacy of the Pope.” For when individual conscience cannot decide on doctrinal truth about God, Newman said the infallible Church was there to decide for him.
Entanglements: Feast of the Transfiguration and Hiroshima Day
August 6, 2010
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A key moment in the Christian story collides with a key moment in human history. How they speak to one another!
Well, I do declare!
May 27, 2010
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In Acts, the Holy Spirit comes upon the followers of Jesus Christ gathered in his name. The sacred wind, the designing fire of the cosmos, lights them up, and they speak. Not murmur. Not hub-bub. Not babble. No, they speak … in language … about God. They’re declaring about who God is, and what God wants, and how God is going to speak through everybody to everybody.
It’s not easy being green
May 25, 2010
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Advent moves to Christmas Day; Christmas season to the Epiphany; Epiphany season to Ash Wednesday; Lent to Easter Day; Easter season to Pentecost. Each season is like crossing a river or lake to the next feast or fast on the other side. But the season after Pentecost is an ocean, and Christ the King Sunday is in the next hemisphere.
Tweetecost Continued: Shorter definitions of Pentecost
May 23, 2010
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How would you define the Third Person of the Trinity in 100 words or less?
Restoring the Rite of Sprinkling
April 27, 2010
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The 1979 Book of Common Prayer consistently highlights the place of Baptism within the Christian life. Baptism is restored to equality with Eucharist as the two great sacraments given to us by Christ in the Gospels, the two Dominical Sacraments. Given this focus, I’m mystified why we’ve never chosen to incorporate the Rite of Sprinkling at the beginning of a festal Eucharist.
Is Easter culture-proof?
April 11, 2010
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Frank Martin says that unlike Christmas, Easter cannot be tamed.
The name of the Day
April 8, 2010
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Years ago there was a retired priest in the parish I served who had strong opinions. Fr. T. T, Butler was a big man with a big voice with which to express his opinions and one subject on which he felt strongly was the phrase “Easter Sunday.” “It’s EASTER DAY!” he would roar; “What else would it be but Sunday?”
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