Joseph – The Dad of Jesus. He gets left out of the Christmas story quite a bit as he seems to be there to uproot Mary and get her off to Bethlehem for a tax census and then scoot her out to Egypt, and that’s about it. We know he was an older man with [...]
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The gospel accounts of the birth of Christ give us two different traveling moments, one before the big event, and one after. The most familiar to anyone who watches animated TV Christmas specials knows this one from Luke’s gospel, the most familiar Christmas story: And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the [...]
Through the book of the Revelation of St. John the Divine, the writer speaks of throngs of believers and angels singing the praise of God, and singing “the song of Moses.” (Rev. 15:2,3) That phrase points back through the Bible joining the circle from Revelation to Genesis-Exodus, and it reminds the reader of the great [...]
Prayers and meditations are not always spoken word. Sometimes they’re silent. Sometimes shouts of laughter. Sometimes the garbled incoherence of our weeping soul. Prayers and meditations are not always communication with God and Jesus, and are instead the expression through our body of our relationship with the world, with the universe, with that which we [...]
In our troubles, you are our strength. And in our sorrows, our consolation. (alleluia alleluia) The Psalmist reminds us in this verse that the Maker – the Center – is both our go-to for the inspirational hutzpah we need to get through the day, and is also our consoler – our cheerleader – [...]
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