Speaking to the Soul: Flesh of my Flesh
Sometimes epiphanies feel like love at first sight. Especially if you’re Adam and Eve, having an epiphany about the full humanity of others.
Sometimes epiphanies feel like love at first sight. Especially if you’re Adam and Eve, having an epiphany about the full humanity of others.
Week of 2 Christmas, Year Two [Go to Mission St Clare for an online version of the Daily Office including today’s scripture readings.] Today’s Readings for the
Happy Feast of Epiphany! Will you follow the light or stick to the lines this today?
Sometimes the less-dramatic versions of Exodus and deliverance deserve a share of the limelight.
Feast of the Holy Name [Go to Mission St Clare for an online version of the Daily Office including today’s scripture readings.] Today’s Readings for the Daily

As I was reviewing the readings for December 30th, the Feast of Frances-Joseph Gaudet (Educator and Prison Reformer) I was struck by how often God

Born at the time we need to remember that we are people of joy, for Love Incarnate has come to live among us. Born at the time we need to remember we are people of peace, for the Prince of Peace has come to live among us. Born at the time we need to remember we are people of hope, as we sing praises to our God whose sheltering faithfulness withholds nothing from us.

November can often be a hard month. It can be a month of losses, starting with losing that precious hour of daylight in the evening when the clocks change. It is also the month of All Souls’ Day and Veterans’ Day and my late father’s birthday

God covers a multitude of our sins, that’s a given. Our asking for forgiveness from God is not so much for God as it is for us. We need to acknowledge and ask for forgiveness, not because it’s going to change anything except us.

Why, then, do we cling so desperately to control and certainty? Well, if control and certainty are the first two legs of the three-legged stool of arrogance, fear is the third.