The Christmas Season concludes with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Surprisingly or not, there are people who may not know this.
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Tag: Liturgical Year
Now is the Time for Now
We can dream about the past and we can hope for the future. But this bleak mid-winter sameness asks us to be more highly aware of the now.
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Another Liturgical Year, Another Bare, Ruined Choir
I didn’t need to have a beloved liturgical space crushed into a parking lot to make the point stand out. But, thank you, 2020, it sure does help.
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Can we give up Christmas this Advent?
The strife is o’er and the battle won…won by the dying mall—the elf on the shelf—and the peppermint mocha-flavored beverage I’m enjoying as I’m writing this.
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It is ALWAYS Advent!
Homiletic reflections on Advent from a probing and thoughtful theologian: Joseph Ratzinger.
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Teaching Memories
The point of embodied remembering is not so much to sharpen our recollection of historical detail as it is to connect us to others who have dug in this dirt, walked on this earth, and danced in this place before.
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O Come, Instruction Manual
There is a temptation in these post-Baptism Sundays to view our liturgical work as something of a breather between our “real” work during the Advent/Christmas and Lent/Easter seasons.
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If we lose Sunday, we lose much more than we realize.
Read moreRefresh my heart: A moment of expectation
As I’m preparing for the imminent arrival of my third child, this week is going to be rather busy! I’d like to share a reflection on another impending moment of imminent (liturgical) birth from Aemiliana Löhr.
Read moreSalt of the Earth: A Christian Seasons Calendar
A calendar organized according to the church year, with good original Christian art.
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