Pilgrims of Hope: Using Advent’s Tools
I woke up on November 6, 2024, hardly daring to breathe. Turning with trepidation to my mobile’s incessant notifications, my heart sank with the realization of my worst US election…
Pregnant with the Future
Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Advent C Readings: Micah 5: 1-4a (RM) or 2-5a (RCL); Psalm 80; Hebrews 10: 5-10;Luke 1: 39-45 (RM), or 39-45 or 46-55 (RCL). We’re…
How Should I Change My Life?
A Reflection for the Third Sunday of Advent C Readings: Zephaniah 3: 14-18a (RM) or 14-20 (RCL); Isaiah 12; Philippians 4: 4-7; Luke 3: 10-18 (RM) or 7-18 (RCL). How…
The Rough Ways Shall Be Made Smooth
Reflection for the Second Sunday in Advent C Readings: Baruch 5: 1-9 (RM) or Malachi 3: 1-4 (RCL); Psalm 126 (RM) or Luke 1: 68-79 (RCL); Philippians 1:4-6, 8-11 (RM)…
The Weary World Rejoices
Here it is again. Advent is suddenly here, and I am once again thrust into the world (and the work) of “waiting in joyful hope.”Waiting, in its many forms is…
Doing Hope
Advent 2023 was a different one for me. Against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian war wreaking unimaginable devastation on already bereft people, the ongoing violence in the Ukraine, Myanmar, and…
Fourth Sunday of Advent B
2 Samuel 7: 1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16 (RM) or 1-11, 16 (RCL); Psalm 89 or Luke 1: 47-55; Romans 16: 25-27; Luke 1: 26-38. A few years ago I was…
The Taste of Things X: Advent’s Hard Work
Newsflash: There is such pain in the world! It is not suffering in general that overwhelms me, but when it devolves into cruelty, brutality, and ruthless violence I feel cut…
Third Sunday of Advent B
Isaiah 61: 1-2a, 10-11 (RM) or 1-4, 8-11 (RCL); Psalm 126 or Luke 1: 46-50, 53-54 (RM) or 47-55 (RCL); 1 Thessalonians 5: 16-24; John 1: 6-8, 19-28.It was absolutely,…
A Teaspoon of Neutron Star
Usually Advent stirs in me feelings of wonder and light – waiting in joyful hope. This Advent, I am more aware of the hovering presence of darkness and death, than…