Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

For Sunday

  • In the Holy Family’s escape into Egypt, we receive the moral weight of the Incarnation: we are the givers of grace.

  • A reflection for Christmas: on the place of Christmas, pandemic separation, and how we might be inspired to look forward.

  • The Magnificat and the sublime normalcy of Mary juxtaposes our vision of her: her specialness: against her lowliness.

  • John tells them they must not rely on their lineage to define their relationship with God, but act like children of God.

  • For The Second Sunday of Advent Collect Merciful God, who sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation: Give us grace to heed their warnings and forsake our sins, that we may greet with joy the coming of Jesus Christ our Redeemer; who lives and reigns with you…

  • A devotional for the First Sunday of Advent Collect Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when…