This category contains content for virtual faith formation for Lent 2015, “Living Into Our Sacred Space”
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. [S]he may […]
Happy Abundant Thursday! Whenever I wake up on Thursday mornings, the first thing I think of is our food pantry. And the first thing I do after that is pray for abundance. In the past two years that I’ve been closely involved with this ministry, I have come to realize what an incredible service this […]
This weekend at St. Thomas, I was talking with another member of the altar guild as she was diligently polishing the brass alms basins. She told me the story of how, many years ago, she was trained for altar guild service by a member of our parish who had just died the previous week. As a newer member […]
Today, we honor Oscar A. Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, in El Salvador, who was assassinated on March 24, 1980 while celebrating Mass in a small chapel in a cancer hospital where he lived. He preached a prophetic gospel, denouncing the injustice in his country while supporting the development of popular and mass organizations. He […]
I was in my car driving on Friday when this story aired. Story Corps is always one of my favorite features on NPR because of the authentic, everyday human experiences that cut through to the heart. This one, I admit, moved me to tears on the highway. I hope you will take a few minutes […]
John 12:20-33Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, “The hour has come […]
Deep in the Quiet Wood by: James Weldon Johnson Are you bowed down in heart? Do you but hear the clashing discords and the din of life? Then come away, come to the peaceful wood, Here bathe your soul in silence. Listen! Now, From out the palpitating solitude Do you not catch, yet faint, elusive […]
Today, I will close this series of images and reflections from Grace Cathedral with a personal story about my first and lasting connection living into this particular sacred space. The AIDS Interfaith Chapel at Grace Cathedral is one of my most sacred spaces. I, like many of us, vividly recall experiences of living and dying […]
Today’s inspiration is drawn from Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) “A Song to Mary” You glowing,most green,verdant sprout, In the movement of the spirit,in the midst of wise and holy seekers,you bud forth into light. Your time to blossom had come. Balsam scented,in youthe beautiful flowerblossomed. It is the beautiful flowerthat lends its scentto those herbs,all […]
Many of us know this prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi: Lord make me an instrument of your peace Where there is hatred, Let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, Joy. O […]
Sacred Space 