This is part of a sermon series on the Sign of Jonah Text: Jonah 3:1-4 Typically, I do not like to start my sermons with a joke, but one of our parishioners told me this last week and it made me think of Jonah. A burglar breaks into a house when no one is home…
Remember O Mortal, you are dust and to dust you shall return. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: ‘Death has been swallowed up…
Pray-as-you-go is a great site with mp3 files with daily prayer for each day. There’s lovely music, scripture, brief meditation for every day of the week. It’s created by the Jesuits in Britain. I think it is the same site that had online prayer a few years ago. Each one is quite short–less than twenty minutes–and…
The changing, growing, dying, rising of the year are marked with the earth’s living breath. Seasons color our lives and make us part of it. There are seasons in the church, too. Sights smells sounds and stories bring us round the year and back again. Some things are constant like the sweet taste and smell…
Robert West’s book, Saint Francis, is one in a series of life stories entitled Christian Encounters. The series reminds me of some similar sets of books on the lives of the saints. Its diminutive size, at only 7” by 5”, and devotional tone make it very much in line with this tradition of writing. The…
Shepherdess Writes 