Year B Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 Canticle 15 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8,19-28 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… It’s Advent 6… and we wait… and while we wait… today’s reading from 1 Thessalonians reminds us to… Rejoice always… pray without ceasing… and give thanks in all circumstances… and...
Year B Isaiah 40:1-11 Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 2 Peter 3:8-15a Mark 1:1-8 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… It’s Advent 5… and we wait… and one of the things we wait for… is on our bulletin cover… and in the O Antiphon which is read before and after today’s...
Joel and I have always decorated for the holidays. Things made years ago by our children, some heirloom ornaments he inherited (I inherited none), some of those vintage bubbler candles and tin and paper ornaments, and some things we bought together. But there were also some things I had kept from before my conversion...
Year B Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 Psalm 95:1-7a Ephesians 1:15-23 Matthew 25:31-46 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… It’s Advent 3… and we wait… and it’s Christ the King Sunday… but in its present form… we haven’t been waiting for too long… we’ve been celebrating Advent for more than fifteen...
Year B Zephaniah 1:7,12-18 Psalm 90:1-8,12 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 Matthew 25:14-30 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… It’s Advent… and we wait… we wait for the long list of issues which continue to… stress… us… out… to end… the pandemic… rising infection rates and death tolls… when a vaccine...