‘Palm Sunday’ by Brittany Fan, used with permission. For the liturgical church, Palm Sunday often begins on the lawn outside the church building. The parishioners stand huddled and quiet until the celebrant, standing amongst them, boldly proclaims,...
I think there are a lot of reasons why candles in windows and twinkling roof-lines seem to be a prerequisite for this time of year. Strangers lighting the way for strangers in a disorienting darkness, Advent is indeed for everyone. For those of us up here in the...
“Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea… This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid....
Third Sunday of Advent – Joy For All “8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the...
Somewhere cramped and stale, in the thick of deep darkness, or perhaps under the suffocating heat of midday. Maybe in the first flickers of new-day light, or lost and silenced by the fervent scurry of a whirling and chaotic world on the move, a baby has been born....
