By Elizabeth Orens A number of Christian poets, musicians, and visual artists have responded to the COVID pandemic, offering their gifts in churches and cathedrals to express the gospel message. Their inspired, sometimes mystical, gifts of the imagination bring us more than solace. Through image, song, metaphor, and symbol, their works stop us in our […]
Archives for November 30, 2021
2 Advent, Year C: Event, Process, and Joy
SUNDAY’S READINGS | December 5, 2021 Bar. 5:1-9 or Mal. 3:1-4 Canticle 4 or 16 Phil. 1:3-11 Luke 3:1-6 Repentance is both a decisive moment and a process. At some point we repent, we turn from a life focused entirely on ourselves, our wants, our needs, our desires, and we look Godward to draw rich […]
Lest Like the Fig Tree
Feast of St. Andrew, Apostle By James Cornwell A Reading from the Gospel of Matthew 21:12-22 12 Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 He said to them, “It […]