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December 2013

December 20, 2013

O Key of David! Opening Wide to the Thrill of Hope

We're all prisoners, every damn one of us. The more free we declare ourselves to...

December 19, 2013

O Root of Jesse! Grant Us Patience, and Step On It!

Time. This time of year, we're obsessed with it, because there's never enough of it....

December 18, 2013

O Adonai! Because You’re God, and We’re Not

Names mean something. In the ancient world, the cauldron of cultures where Israel took shape,...

December 17, 2013

O Wisdom! Pile on the Prudence, Please!

Tonight they begin, the seven prophetic antiphons chanted before and after the Magnificat at Vespers....

December 24, 2012

When Half-Spent Was the Night

One of my favorite lines from one of my favorite Christmas carols is a...

December 21, 2012

It’s Always Apocalypse, Now

One more midnight gone, but for Christians---especially in Advent---we live always in the end-times. And...

December 13, 2012

The Cleaning Crew: 3 Advent Allies for Spiritual Warriors

So here I am, sitting in the clean and light-filled kitchen of my new apartment...

December 01, 2012

Home for Advent, Christmas, and Ever After

Really, I tell you, never, never, never count God out. Yesterday, while I was bewailing...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Homeless in Advent, Thank God

I've been dreading this Advent, usually my favorite season. In a time ripe with promise,...