In preparing liturgies for the Daily Office and mass and the Sunday liturgies, I have discovered that sometimes it takes longer in preparing to pray than it does to actually say the prayers. Each day of the year has its own rules and nuance. Some prayers you say on certain days and some prayers [...]
Philadelphia – Greek for fraternal love. Sunday night I flew to Philly to spend about 36 hours at a Quaker retreat center for the bi-annual meeting of Episcopal Service Corps Program Directors. The Abraham Project is one of 21 (up from 13 in January!) programs across the United States that call young adults [...]
They say our love won’t pay the rent
Before it’s earned, our money’s all been spent
I guess that’s so, we don’t have a pot
But at least I’m sure of all the things we got
Babe
I got you babe
I got you babe
Every Wednesday night before [...]
A teenager’s 17th birthday is significant. It’s not as big as the 16th and the advent of driving. It’s not as significant as the 18th and the introduction into adulthood. The 17th birthday is like being the first officer on a ship. You have the prestige of being in command but you do not have [...]
As I write this I’m sitting in ‘my’ chair, sipping a mocha expresso while watching the countdown to Sunday Night Football. It’s only 7:55pm, but it feels like midnight. Alas, this is the drill most of us endure twice a year with the subtle punishment of Daylight Savings. Sure we got a extra hour [...]
from tonight’s homily… I’m going to get into some things tonight that might seem a bit, I don’t know, let’s just say might require a bit of imagination. Not because the things I’m going to say are made up, I don’t think they are, but I can almost guarantee you’ve never heard this [...]
Today is the Feast of All Saints, one of the seven principal feasts of the Church (the others being Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Pentecost, Ascension and Trinity Sunday). It’s a red letter day. In the old sanctorales (books with the days of the Church Calendar – sometimes spelled Kalendar), the major feasts were printed in [...]
