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Rock Us Into Joy

December 13, 2019 Jill Crainshaw

We pray for strength and courage, for wisdom to seek Your ways.

risus paschalis: when dust laughs

April 22, 2019 Jill Crainshaw Liturgical year

Risus paschalis means “the Easter laugh.” The pastor of the United Church of Christ congregation I attended some years ago had a practice of telling

Savoring Gethsemane Places

April 18, 2019 Jill Crainshaw

Gethsemane midwifes agony. Gethsemane also midwifes the balm of Gilead.

In Our Hands, Beneath Our Feet: Reflections for Lent 4

March 25, 2019 Jill Crainshaw Liturgical year

As we journey through Lenten disciplines and practices, we are invited again and again to attend to and celebrate the sacramentality of everyday life, the matter beneath our feet and in our hands that matters.

Transfiguration

March 26, 2011 Diana Macalintal Liturgical Spirituality Liturgical year

A reflection on change

“The Gift” for 9/11

September 11, 2010 Other Voices Ecumenism Liturgical Spirituality

“The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all-powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth.” (Second Vatican Council, Nostra aetate 3)