Liturgy Close your eyes . . .Try to remember . . .A deep breath . . .A first step . . .Lord, In a time where magic has lost its meaningLet us hope for a world that widensIn a time where stories must be sound bytesLet us hope for a world that deepensIn a time where even change is changingLet […]
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Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.11.10
Liturgy Standing together at the precipice of Advent,we ready ourselves to step out intoa season of waitingfor the world’s salvation to arrive. Lord, quiet our mindsin these next forty days.In a world of notifications, blue light,never-ending feeds of breaking news, we need the darkness and the silenceof your coming mystery. You are always wilder than we understand.You will not be hemmed […]
Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.11.03
Liturgy How long must we wait for answers, Creator?How long will you hide your face from us?What is our purpose?Why are we here?How long must we live so divided?Can you not end all suffering?Can you not liberate us from our oppressors?Can you not provide for us in need?How can we offer comfort to those in mourningwhen we are not in […]
Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.10.27
Liturgy Here’s to the God of the wild and untamedHere’s to the animals that bat their wingsAnd test their speed in freedomHere’s to nature as our parish,The beauty of the morning lightThe breeze moving through the treesMay all beings know freedomMay we be stewards of dreams that balloon so much they take up infinitespaceMay the words we speak bring peace […]
Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.10.20
Liturgy God of spiritual orphans and seekers, comfort our hearts.Like the disciples before us, we often wrestlewith the confusing ache of your absence.After 2000 years of ascension, we yearn for a voicethat reaches through clouds to speak again.Once a man from Nazareth who healed, wept, and laughed,we’ve molded you into a thousand different dogmas for our own motives.Free us to […]
Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.10.13
Liturgy Lord, you are your wordYou are memory when ours failsA deep breath when ours grows shallowAn anchor when we’re unmooredWe lose confidence in you and in ourselvesThat our projects will never completeOur relationships never mendedBut Lord you are sage, mentor, carpenter, friendYou prepare for each harvest,Knowing the plant and the seasonThe days grow shorter to have the long June […]
Liturgy, Reflection & Benediction 2024.10.06
Liturgy Wherever you have come from to be here today,dearly beloved,no matter how frayed or ragged you feel,you are held together by a divineand reconciling love.Along with Saint Patrick, Lord, we remind ourselves of your presence:“Christ with me,Christ before me,Christ behind me,Christ in me,Christ beneath me,Christ above me,Christ when I lie down,Christ when I arise.”God, may our vision be drawn […]