Finding Ourselves in Jesus Why We Observe the Christian Year • • • During this Advent season, I will be using Walter Wangerin Jr.’s book, Preparing for Jesus, for daily readings to prepare my heart for the celebration of Jesus’ birth. As I was looking at it the other day, I was taken immediately byContinue reading “Finding Ourselves in Jesus”
Category Archives: Christian Seasons
The Cruelest Month
Yesterday, the wind blew strong from the west, colder and more piercing as the day went by. The sky was a wild migration of stampeding clouds, many dark as slate and angry. Leaves blew everywhere. Color is thinning and soon the treetops will be as bare as an old man’s pate. All will be brown,Continue reading “The Cruelest Month”
Let the Saints Teach Us to Be Children
Today is the day many Christian traditions celebrate All Saints’ Day (some celebrated earlier last week). On the first page of our church bulletin this morning were these words: “All Saints celebrates the baptized people of God, living and dead, who are the body of Christ. As November heralds the dying of the landscape inContinue reading “Let the Saints Teach Us to Be Children”
Hanging On…
For awhile now, I have been feeling the need for a break of some kind. As I’ve written about some of the demanding situations involved in working on a hospice team, many of you have been kind enough to encourage me to remember to practice self-care, and you are right. The schedule of emotionally intenseContinue reading “Hanging On…”
Ruth among the Writings
By Chaplain Mike Ordinary Time Bible Study 2011 The Book of Ruth (1) During Ordinary Time this summer, we will have a weekly Bible study on the Book of Ruth. I think this especially appropriate, for Ruth is a story about ordinary people in ordinary settings, in and through whom God did extraordinary things. ForContinue reading “Ruth among the Writings”
Our Relational God
By Chaplain Mike This Sunday upcoming is Trinity Sunday, the day that bridges the two main divisions of the Church Year. We have been walking through the life of Jesus from Advent to Pentecost since last November. Now, we begin the days of “Ordinary Time,” when we live out the faith daily as Christ’s church,Continue reading “Our Relational God”
Friday with the Fathers (5)
By Chaplain Mike The Epistle of Barnabas is next on our list as we consider the works of the Apostolic Fathers, which are the earliest Christian writings outside the New Testament itself. The main guide we are using for these studies is The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations, by Michael W. Holmes. AnContinue reading “Friday with the Fathers (5)”
Lenten Meditation
By Chaplain Mike Doggone it! I hate when life gets in the way of blogging! This week’s “Friday with the Fathers” has morphed into “Saturday with the Fathers.” Our consideration of The Epistle of Barnabas will be posted tomorrow afternoon. Until then, consider this Lenten quote from Joan Chittister from her wonderful book, The LiturgicalContinue reading “Lenten Meditation”
Friday with the Fathers (4)
By Chaplain Mike Today, in our Lenten series on the Apostolic Fathers, we consider a work that many think comes to us from the days of the apostles themselves: The Didache (The Teaching). Known in ancient times as The Teaching of the Lord to the Gentiles by the Twelve Apostles, or, in shorter form, TheContinue reading “Friday with the Fathers (4)”
Friday with the Fathers (3)
By Chaplain Mike Thus far in our Lenten series on the Apostolic Fathers, we have discussed Clement of Rome and Ignatius of Antioch. Today we consider the last of the three chief Apostolic Fathers: Polycarp of Smyrna. Polycarp and Ignatius knew one another, and Ignatius wrote one of his letters to Bishop Polycarp as heContinue reading “Friday with the Fathers (3)”
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