Always the Innocents
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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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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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During these darkening days, let us remember ancient practices which saw times of rising darkness as time to act to return the light.
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Beginning Advent with the Little Apocalypse inspires fear when we’d rather see joy—but reveals that we’re actually afraid of joy.
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Our experience of the dark, of night, reminds us of our sense of being alone, and what we crave alongside safety is genuine connection.
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This week’s gospel comes to us as a final exam—not a random teaching. That context, in the last days, is central to our understanding of it.
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The dark parable Jesus tells challenges us, not to learn what to do, but to recall and do what we’ve already learned from him.
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This dynamic of showing up and doing because it’s the thing is at the heart of the gospel and Easter itself.
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When we hear Jesus’s apocalyptic talk, we often shut down. Which means we avoid hearing the good news itself.