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O King of All the Nations
In the final days of Advent, the church’s daily evening prayer includes a short verse, or antiphon, that highlights one of the scriptural names for the messiah. Each day’s text begins with “O”...
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O Come Emmanuel
In the final days of Advent, the church’s daily evening prayer includes a short verse, or antiphon, that highlights one of the scriptural names for the messiah. Each day’s text begins with “O”...
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Tradition and Change at Christmas
Creating and adhering to family traditions has been significant to our life as parents raising our children. Joe and I both are people who treasure tradition, so it came naturally to us to anchor our...
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Tradition and Change at Christmas — Part 2
I was not expecting a second part when I wrote my earlier post about simplifying our Christmas decorating a bit now that our children are increasingly away from home. Adapting to changing...
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In Search of Simplicity
I chose not to make 2013 New Year’s resolutions per se, though I did spend significant time reflecting on the year just ended and how to foster growth and change in the year ahead. For me it all boils...
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God in All Things — Even Air Travel
Life is full of surprises, as I was reminded most emphatically this past weekend, traveling to Rehoboth Beach, DE, for a gathering of women to celebrate a friend’s birthday. Setting off in falling...
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Guest Posting about Befriending the Darkness
What does high school swimming have to do with prayer? For me there’s a connection! I am honored that my guest post on the theme of “nurturing your mothering spirit” appears today over at the...
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Ready From Within
The recent centennial of Rosa Parks’ birth evoked for me a lesser known but also highly influential woman of the civil rights movement. South Carolina native Septima Clark has been called “Freedom’s...
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Discovering Lent
The annual appearance of the “Little Black Books for Lent” at church the other day brought the imminence of the season home to me. From previous use, I recalled that the Black Book suggests beginning...
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A Lenten Valentine
At a meeting I attended yesterday, the opening prayer included this reflection which seems especially fitting for Valentine’s Day, when we celebrate love (and any day, really). Lent: A Season for...
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Prayer in All Things
A more holistic approach to prayer is opening up for me this Lent. My mental image of praying “correctly” typically involves a period of time set apart, ideally at the beginning of the day in a...
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Household Goddesses
The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center turned out to be even more captivating than I expected; perhaps I had become a bit blase about the history and culture after nearly two...
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Cookies for Kairos
Several men in our parish are part of an ecumenical team that presents Kairos retreats in prisons, and we periodically are asked to donate homemade cookies, two dozen per gallon-size Ziploc bag, for...
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Pope Francis I (Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio) Stands With the Poor: Quotes on...
Reblogged from Millennial: Habemus Papam! And this new Pope we have is one who hails from the developing world, took public transportation to work, decided to live in a small apartment in Buenos Aires...
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Movement as Prayer
Perhaps the emerging consciousness that “sitting is the new smoking” is leading me to incorporate gestures as part of prayer. I sit so much at my computer that sitting for prayer seems like too much....
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“The Chain of Me”
The title of this post comes from a reflection by the same name in Tikva Frymer-Kensky’s collection Motherprayer, in which she suggests creating “a genealogical chain celebrating the handing over of...
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A Heart for Holy Week
Recently I began reading Katrina Kenison’s latest memoir, magical journey, which recounts her personal transition after her children leave home. She had unexpectedly advanced on that path when her...
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At the Cross
The past few days I’ve immersed myself in the ideas of Cynthia Bourgeault, an Episcopal priest, retreat leader, writer and mystic who I quoted at the close of the previous post. A key focus of her...
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At the Tomb
“So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in how new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and … Continue reading →
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In the Garden
He is risen! Alleluia! Remarkably all four Gospels are consistent in placing Mary Magdalene at the tomb as witness to the resurrection of Jesus. “Early on the first day of the week, while it was still...
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