Tag: Seasons

…[T]hrough the luminous brightness that shone from the face of the Lord on the mount the thrice-blessed apostles were secretly led in an ineffable and

Truly, every flame has become a sign of his Holy Spirit, the Lord and life-giver, the one who spoke by the prophets.

Truly, the many lights–and there are many–now bear witness to the one true Light.

Truly, all truth, all goodness, and all beauty, wherever they are found, have their source and find their goal in Him.

The manifestation of the world’s true King and the one true Light shakes loose our settled convictions and patterns of living. It causes us to forsake the path of least resistance and to enter into new and unsettling relationships and ways of life. Ways of life based not on domination but on brotherhood and sisterhood.

What God is up to in Jesus, is the same type of thing that God is always up to everywhere, in and through the Word, namely pouring out grace, giving life, establishing justice, showing mercy, establishing and reestablishing all things in a universal communion of love.

Once we think we fully understand a definition, we fill the air with the aerosol mist of a spray can chock full of of the delusion of control.

Feast of the Holy Innocents Psalm 2 Psalm 26 (Morning) Psalm 19 Psalm 126 (Evening) Isaiah 49:13-23 or Isaiah 54:1-13 Matthew 19:1-14 or Mark 10:13-16

And what means that, saith he, “Of his fullness have all we received”? (John 1:16) For to this we must for a while direct our

We beseech you, O Lord our God, be patient with us sinners. You who know our weakness, protect the work of your hands now and

“O great, holy God, I pray to You: Open my own interiority to me so that I properly know what I am. Unlock that within

… we await the coming of that Light in a stable, at the edge of town, among simple people who remember their Maker and Redeemer and rejoice to see the glory of God shine forth in the face of a poor and humble child.