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Category: Christmas
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas – An Epiphany
The twelve days of Christmas come to an end on January 6, and the season of [Ordinary Time] begins. But Epiphany not only ends Christmas, it also fulfills it by celebrating the revelation of the Christ to the whole world. The coming of Incarnate… Continue Reading “On the Twelfth Day of Christmas – An Epiphany”
On the Eleventh Day of Christmas . . .
When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with the flocks, then the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal those… Continue Reading “On the Eleventh Day of Christmas . . .”
On the Tenth Day of Christmas
As Epiphany approaches, I offer this prayer: May this holy season be for each of us A time of moving beyond what is “reasonable” And toward the star of wonder; Moving beyond grasping tight to what we have To unclenching our hands and letting… Continue Reading “On the Tenth Day of Christmas”
On the Ninth Day of Christmas
A new time stands on my doorstep ready to enter my life’s journey. Something in me welcomes this visitor: the hope of bountiful blessings the joy of a new beginning the freshness of unclaimed surprises. Something in me rebuffs this visitor: the swiftness of… Continue Reading “On the Ninth Day of Christmas”
On the Eighth Day of Christmas
Dear God, this past year has been filled with great challenges. Fear and insecurity are our companions day and night. We pray that you shelter us beneath the shadow of your wings and protect us from all harm. Remove the evil forces that surround us and spread over us… Continue Reading “On the Eighth Day of Christmas”
On the Seventh Day of Christmas
Let us bring Christ into this world as Mary did. The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds… Continue Reading “On the Seventh Day of Christmas”
On the Sixth Day of Christmas
The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. – Frederick Buechner
On the Fifth Day of Christmas
Long after the angels disappear into the heavens, the shepherds return to their flocks, the magi journey home and the great star sets, Jesus remains. The Child in whom we rediscover God’s great love for humanity becomes the Adult Redeemer who challenges us to… Continue Reading “On the Fifth Day of Christmas”
On the Fourth Day of Christmas
When peaceful silence lay over all, and the night had run half of her swift course, your all-powerful word, O Lord, leaped down from heaven, from the royal throne. – Prayer on Second Sunday after Christmas, Roman Rite
On the Third Day of Christmas . . .
There is no rose of such vertu As is the rose that bare Jesu. Alleluia. For in this rose conteined was Heaven and earth in litel space, Res miranda.(1) By that rose we may well see There be on God in persons… Continue Reading “On the Third Day of Christmas . . .”
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