Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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The feast day of Holy Innocents is the part of the Christmas story that never makes it into pageants. But we need to hear it each year.
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In celebrating the Feast of St. John, we are invited into an elaborate depiction of faith which combines multiple figures into one.
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In the angel’s visitation to Mary, we get a glimpse, not just of what Christmas is about, but about what it means to believe.
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In Mary, we have the example of the common and uncommon—and we are invited to reflect on what it means to be favored by God.
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In Christmas, we celebrate the incarnation of Christ. What that means to us, however, requires us to think about our world.
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The lectionary jumps a lot in these seasons. This jump takes away one of Luke’s best stories for describing the place of the Incarnation.