Ordinary Time – Season of Stability The Irish may not have invented the Trinity, yet from the way they pray you might think so. Celtic spirituality is Trinitarian in its essence. The Irish love triads, arrangements of three statements that summed up a person, quality, mood or simply linked incompatible objects. They especially loved it […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability To bless is to sanctify, make holy, make happy. Celtic spirituality is full of blessings. A blessing for every day and every occasion. Children are blessed as they leave their homes for school. Homes are blessed, the daily fire is blessed, as well as meals. We here in America have […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability It’s not easy, being green . . . or so says Kermit the Frog. But I disagree. I love this season of the year and all of the shades of green. Green leaves, green grass, evergreen trees. Green is everywhere, in our church sanctuaries as well. It’s not easy, […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability There are seasons in the year, seasons in the church year, seasons in our life and seasons of the soul. Times of new life and growth, followed by times of dying, times of rest and hibernation in preparation for new growth. God gave us seasons for a reason–that we […]
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Reds swirl throughout the church, red streamers, red banners, red dresses and shirts, all to capture the spirit of flames. It is a fiery end to the Easter season, this celebration of Pentecost. We celebrate the coming of the spirit upon the apostles so long ago, the birthday of the church. It is not an […]
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Easter – Season of New Life A wedding in June. Flowers everywhere. Young life, young love—energetic and restless–stirring anew your love in us, expressing their love in commitment. New love–a new life together. What could be better! The community of believers were of one heart and one mind. Acts 4:32 This post is […]
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Easter – Preparing for Pentecost So often the Spirit is depicted as a gentle dove bringing gifts of wisdom, peace, joy, compassion. But God’s spirit is not a weak, wimpy one. It is also a spirit of courage, wild and untamed. Celtic Christians referred to God’s Spirit as a wild goose, wild, untamed, unpredictable, uncontrollable. […]
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Easter – preparing for Pentecost Children . . . running, playing, making demands, moving constantly . . . signs of life, signs of youth. Yet a newborn baby lies peacefully–most of the time. She sleeps and eats and sleeps some more during the first few weeks of her life. Those of us who cradle her […]
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Easter – Preparing for Pentecost Oh, what joy, when I first followed Jesus, when I experienced God’s presence and forgiveness. The sky was bluer, the sun burned brighter, flowers more radiant and colors more brilliant, touched by God’s love. But I also feared losing my new found joy, feared falling into sin and out of […]
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Easter – Preparing for Pentecost New life stirs within me, a life slow and quiet and steady-paced. I possess a new sense of peacefulness, such a contrast to the unrest of earlier days. I possess a quiet confidence that I will be able to handle life’s challenges. I feel a sense of stability and security. […]
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