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  • and now

    Monday in Easter Week Shout with joy to the Lord, all you lands; lift up your voice, rejoice, and sing. Psalm 98:5 and now here we are with Alleluias and hymns of praise and other signs of joy and celebration… Continue reading

  • Lamentation

    Holy Saturday Let my prayer enter into your presence; incline your ear to my lamentation. Psalm 88:2 a morning for lament the burdened wait of mourning a prayer made of weeping flung from a grief-laden heart and received image credit:… Continue reading

  • Barren

    Good Friday Be not far from me for trouble is near, and there is none to help. Psalm 22:11 now stripped away now bare stillness now I hold keep watch for mercy Image credit: reicaden / 123RF Stock Photo Continue reading

  • Sounding

    Maundy Thursday My days pass away like a shadow, and I wither like the grass. But you, O Lord, endure for ever, and your Name from age to age. Psalm 102:11-12 I sit in silence and hear the echo of… Continue reading

  • Troubled

    Wednesday in Holy Week Day and night the watchmen make their rounds upon her walls, but trouble is in the midst of her Psalm 55:7 steps out of sync I walk in, through the everyday struggling also to keep to… Continue reading

  • Collapse

    Tuesday in Holy Week The Lord has heard my supplication; the Lord accepts my prayer. Psalm 6:9 I fling unformed words of appeal I grasp at wisps of gratitude my way strewn with unruly prayers I am so small and… Continue reading

  • Unnavigable

    Monday in Holy Week The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Psalm 51:18 Now the way twists elusively familiar and utterly alien rock-strewn, convoluted, unimaginable There is no… Continue reading

  • Falling into love

    Saturday in the Fifth Week of Lent May there be no breaching of the walls, no going into exile, no wailing in the public squares. Psalm 144:15 I brace myself for what is to come, anticipating the difficulty ahead. The… Continue reading

  • Some Doubted

    Sermon preached at the Chrism Mass Diocese of Bethlehem March 22, 2018 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. And Jesus… Continue reading

  • Tired and good

    Friday in the Fifth Week of Lent Be not far away O Lord; you are my strength; hasten to help me. Psalm 22:18 As I wake and stretch into a new day, I find myself thankful for the exhaustion of… Continue reading