January 3, 2026 Bright Fog The morning sun of Januaryrubs against the mountain fogcreating a pearly canvasfor bare tree limbswoven into intricate patternsof lace to send their secretsacross the empty sky.Without the sunthe fog would enveloptheir signatures and withoutthe fog, the sun would burnaway the mystery.It is in the bright fog that we travel,in thisContinueContinue reading “Bright Fog”
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O Antiphons of Advent: Emmanuel
December 23, 2025 O come, O come, Emmanuel,and ransom captive Israelthat mourns in lonely exile hereuntil the Son of God appear. Two days before Christmas, in this Advent season of waiting and longing, the seventh, and final, name for the Christ (or Light, or Love, or Universe, if you prefer) proclaimed in the ancient prayer-songContinueContinue reading “O Antiphons of Advent: Emmanuel”
O Antiphons of Advent: King of Nations
December 22, 2025 O come, O King of nations, bindin one the hearts of all mankind.Bid all our sad divisions ceaseand be yourself our King of Peace. Three days before the birth of the Light, in the O Antiphons, the ancient prayer-song of waiting and expectation, the sixth title given to the Christ (or Light,ContinueContinue reading “O Antiphons of Advent: King of Nations”
O Antiphons of Advent: Morning Star
December 21, 2025 O come, O Bright and Morning Star,and bring us comfort from afar!Dispel the shadows of the nightand turn our darkness into light. What compelling and significant timing for the fifth name for Christ in the O Antiphons to be on the same day as the Winter Solstice! On this longest, darkest nightContinueContinue reading “O Antiphons of Advent: Morning Star”
O Antiphons of Advent: Key of David
December 20, 2025 O come, O Key of David, comeand open wide our heavenly home.Make safe for us the heavenward roadand bar the way to death’s abode. Imagine trusting someone with a key to your home, your family, your finances, a key to everything you value in this world. And then imagine that same personContinueContinue reading “O Antiphons of Advent: Key of David”
O Antiphons of Advent: Root of Jesse
December 19, 2025 O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, freeThine own from Satan’s tyranny;From depths of hell Thy people save,And give them victory o’er the grave. One of my favorite activities is hiking, and one of my favorite objects to observe while hiking is trees. Trees amaze me, from their intricate root systems to theContinueContinue reading “O Antiphons of Advent: Root of Jesse”
Advent’s O Antiphons: Wisdom
December 17, 2025 O come, O Wisdom from on high,who ordered all things mightily;to us the path of knowledge showand teach us in its ways to go. This last week before Christmas Day has always been mystical to me, a thin place of sorts, where we move willingly or not toward the Winter Solstice, theContinueContinue reading “Advent’s O Antiphons: Wisdom”
Saturday of Holy Week ~ Silence
April 19, 2025 For years now, every Saturday before Easter Sunday, the final words of Prince Hamlet as he lay dying come to me: “The rest is silence.” In regard to Holy Week, the false conviction, illegal trial, and immoral death sentence of an innocent man are over. And so we wait . . .ContinueContinue reading “Saturday of Holy Week ~ Silence”
Friday of Holy Week ~ Forsaken
April 18, 2025 With the current events of the world, and especially in my own country, the States, feeling forsaken is becoming a more regular occurrence, forsaken by friends, by representatives, by the president. Then there are the forsaken graduate students who are being unconstitutionally jailed and deported, forsaken federal workers who no longer haveContinueContinue reading “Friday of Holy Week ~ Forsaken”
Thursday of Holy Week: Remembering to Wash Feet
April 17, 2025 Today’s appointed gospel is from John 13:1-15, where at the Passover dinner (the Last Supper), Jesus washes the feet of his twelve closest friends. A colleague and I once discussed why foot washing isn’t considered a sacrament in the traditional Church. The basis for the two sacraments that Protestants observe, baptism andContinueContinue reading “Thursday of Holy Week: Remembering to Wash Feet”
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