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Tuesday, December 20th: That’s what she said
The Eucharistic Gospel reading for today is, once more, the story of the Annunciation. So, in the third and final installment: the Annunciation, a response (or seven). I’m in. Bring it on. What he...
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Wednesday, December 21st: Doubtless Thomas
Thomas would rather die with Jesus than let him go. Thomas would follow Jesus anywhere, if only Jesus would tell him how to get there. Thomas would not be comforted by his brothers, would not let go of...
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Thursday, December 22nd: Blue Christmas
Tonight, St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Elyria: Blue Christmas, for when Christmas hurts. A service of healing and hope, prayer, candlelight and Communion. Come and join us to lay down the heaviness of...
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Friday, December 23rd: Speechless
From this evening’s Stations of the Nativity (St Andrew’s, Elyria, 5-6 pm – join us!), a poem for Zechariah after his visit from the angel: Speechless Tongue-tied and frozen, teeth on a knife-edge,...
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Saturday, December 24th: Christmas Eve
So here we are, at the end of Advent. “You have reached your destination,” as my GPS would optimistically put it, moments before we actually get there. There have been detours. There have been slow...
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Glory
And the cries of pain and exultation mingle with the newborn breath escaping into the air, into the world, and the sky echoes alleluia; glory to God; be at peace. So it ever was, and, even through...
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Stations of the Nativity
Before this Christmas season leaves us, and while it is still fresh in the memory, here is a plan for Stations of the Nativity that you are welcome to use and adapt – but please give credit to this...
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Saint Lucy’s Day
An Advent meditation for the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio Friday, December 13, 2013 I remember learning, from John Donne’s Nocturnall, that S Lucie’s day was the shortest, the darkest, “the yeares...
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Advent meditation: parables, fools, and poetry
Written for the Diocese of Ohio Advent meditations collection, Advent 2014 (see more at www.dohio.org) Readings for Thursday of the First Week of Advent: Psalm 118: 19-24; Isaiah 26: 1-6; Matthew 7:...
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Do not quench the spirit
From the Lectionary for Year B Advent 3: 1 Thessalonians 5:19 Do not quench the spirit, pour cold water on its fervour; be afraid of the passion it inflames; that is only the beginning of wisdom. Let...
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My kingdom is not of this world
A pre-Advent poem for Christ the King The flag I did not come with fire and flood, but with tender fingertips, in flesh and squalling hunger biting through your resignation, splitting hearts and...
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Advent in the meantime
Light and dark his skin and mine. “Who has the time?” he asked. I had said, “I am a process person.” He said it quietly, but I heard the harmonic ringing out: “Time is a privilege.” The time between...
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Can I say “fiery cat farts” in an Advent meditation?
This was originally published by the RevGalBlogPals in their weekly email. (No cats were harmed in the making of this Advent meditation.) I adjusted my Advent prayer rituals after acquiring a third...
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Second thoughts
Mary did not float through her pregnancy without her swollen feet touching the ground. When Mary returned to her senses, the bread was burning, and she nearly took the skin off her hands snatching it...
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Afterwards
An Advent meditation for/from the Diocese of Ohio On this date eighteen years ago, my waiting had finally come to an end. One day earlier, our Christmas baby, our Omega child, had been born in the...
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Beacon blessings
The Collect for the First Sunday in Advent calls upon God for the grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light. When we handed the infant child baptized last week a lit...
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Advent light
A sermon for the First Sunday of Advent, November 27, 2016, at the Church of the Epiphany, Euclid, Ohio. Year A Advent 1: Isaiah 2:1-5 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24:36-44 When we have finished the act of...
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Advent joy
I was blessed to hear our deacon-in-training preach this morning, so instead of a sermon for Advent 2, I am sharing the reflection from the closing Eucharist of yesterday’s Advent Quiet Day at St...
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Shoulder season
The Spirit keeps reaching, gripping my shoulders, telling me to sit, stay a while. Over my shoulder, promising, promising soon, soon, surging on to one more thing, I feel the snag of her fingers...
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Of prophets and (im)patience
A sermon for a snowy third Sunday of Advent in Euclid, Ohio. Isaiah 35:1-10, James 5:7-10, Matthew 11:2-11, Canticle 15 (the Song of Mary) Isaiah the prophet wrote the better part of three thousand...
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