HOLY SATURDAY  O God, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life; who now lives and reigns […]

GOOD FRIDAY  Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. When he had […]

MAUNDAY THURSDAY It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. The evening meal was being served, and the devil […]

Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord’s passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and fasting. This season of Lent provided a time in which converts to the faith were prepared for Holy […]

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned (Isaiah 9:2) I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life (John 8:12). ******* Christmas is over […]

To the few who read my blog regularly, and to those who read it occasionally, and to the others who happen to have stumbled across it, I wish you all Merry Christmas! Yes, it is the eve of the new year, and yes much of the Western World has moved on. Nevertheless I want to […]

There is something about Mary’s song that gets to me. She was a young Jewish girl, a marginalized person within a marginalized culture, who after a few months of contemplating her encounter with an angel, and who after receiving prophetic words from her cousin, responds with a prophetic song that powerfully expresses the future ministry […]

Currently, I am seeing that God freely gives, and that none of what he gives is in the least contingent upon who we are or what we do. I am also seeing that what God most earnestly desires to give is his very own life. However, I also see that we cannot receive what he […]

As I previously mentioned, it is now Advent, the first season of the liturgical year, which is the way that Xians divide time and orient it upon the story of Christ. In thinking further about this, I made a connection to Reinhold Niebuhr’ theological anthropology, in which humans are rendered as both the creators and […]

The new year has arrived! No, I am not a little early in my declaration, neither am I overly eager for January 1st to arrive. Rather, I am speaking of Advent, the season of the liturgical calendar when Xians prepare themselves for the celebration of Jesus’ birth. Beginning December 2nd, many Xians, all over the […]