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April 2026

April 07, 2026

As Easter Follows Lent

  They discovered graves on the hillside just down the street. Down on the south...

March 2026

March 30, 2026

Whom Do You Seek? A Holy Week Meditation

I went into Holy Week, a little sad and apprehensive, not knowing what to say....

March 31, 2025

The Cat, The Rabbit, and Christianity

  Charlie the cat belongs to the Artful Dodgers, but I pretend not to know...

April 2024

April 05, 2024

A Soggy Easter

Things had been going too well lately, so I should have been ready for a...

March 2024

March 26, 2024

A Little Resurrection

Things were bad, and then they were wonderful. This happens more and more often lately....

April 2023

April 16, 2023

The Vultures and the Angelus

The first thing I did was check on the compost. We're making compost again this...

April 29, 2021

It Was Holy Thursday, But Also Easter

    It hasn't been a very good twenty-four hours. Our menacing neighbor has been...

April 16, 2020

When You Cannot Find the Body of Christ

  There's always a letdown in this Octave of Easter-- or, at least, there is...

April 12, 2020

An Easter Visitation

  Rosie's lively, ragtag neighbor friends, whom I've referred to as "corner friends" and "fireflies"...

April 23, 2019

The Departure of Margaret Shank

  My mother used to tell us stories about the housekeeper who worked for her...

April 21, 2019

In the Holy Night

I had been dead for eons. I was not the first to die-- the first...

April 07, 2018

As a Deer Longs

  We still don't have a way to get to the church that's become home....

April 01, 2018

Laugh Like a Magdalene

  Early in the morning on the first day of the week, the women came...

April 01, 2018

Triduum and the Theology of Godzilla

  I had been trying to catechize Rosie about Easter since the beginning of Lent....

March 2018

March 24, 2018

Failing and Winning at Lent

  This hasn't been much of a Lent. It never is, but this one was...

December 2017

December 21, 2017

The Sixth Joy of Mary: The Resurrection

Early in the morning on the first day of the week, the women went...

April 2017

April 03, 2017

A Pre-Pascha Tin Cup Rattle

It's just under two week til Easter! Are you ready? Have you stocked up on...

February 2017

February 20, 2017

What Are You Doing for Lent?

The Great Fast is almost here. For the Latin church, Lent will begin on March...

May 2016

May 01, 2016

Happy and Blessed Pascha to Those Who Celebrate Today!

Χριστὸς ἀνέστη ἐκ νεκρῶν, θανάτῳ θάνατον πατήσας, καὶ τοῖς ἐν τοῖς μνήμασι, ζωὴν χαρισάμενος! Christ...

March 2016

March 25, 2016

Daybreak: the Terror of Easter Sunday

  In the moments before the first light of dawn, darkness seems eternal. So it...

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