Cathedra Everywhere J.S. Bach wrote that “to sing once is to pray twice.” When I sing, and when I hear singing, I am surrounded by the presence of the angels and the prayers of the saints. I am in communion, even if in a community of one. I remember today one of the Advent meditations ...
It’s the Season of Advent. Eager anticipation. Hymns, Carols, Trees, Cooking, Parties, Family… the joy (and the stress) just seems to go on without stop. And we are supposed to be HAPPY! Guess what: a lot of people aren’t. For many people who are alone, who are away from hearth-and-home, who are sick or just ...
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After Easter Sunday, the Easter “Season” is not quite over, not by a longshot! In the Christian Church, what follows the story of the Passion of Christ is the time that the returned Christ walked among his followers until ascending into heaven, to sit at the right hand of God, as the Nicene Creed says. ...
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Almighty and everylasting God, mercifully increase in us thy gifts of holy discipline, in almsgiving, prayer, and fasting; that our lives may be directed to the fulfilling of thy most gracious will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. - Amen ...
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In the church I attend, each of the three scriptural readings (the psalm is chanted, or read responsively by the attendees), is introduced with “A reading from ___” and then ends with “The word of God.” The (Christian, Bible-reading) world breaks into two camps of those who believe that every word in the Bible is ...
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