It is Holy Week, and we walk the Way of the Cross to soon find the empty tomb. My hopes for all of you is that this week you are moved to tenderness of heart, to sorrow at the harm done on this week so many centuries ago, to sorrow at the harm in our world, to opening of your hearts to those who suffer or fear, and on the night of the day you receive this, may your hearts be inflamed with the new fire of the Easter Vigil, that continues on into Easter morning, with the confusing,...

We are deep into Lent. The scriptures become more penitential, the Gospel readings become longer and multi-faceted, and with all happening in the world, even in church we can feel like we’re carrying a lot. The traditions and seasons of the greater church do recognize this, and This Sunday is Laetare Sunday, the Lenten equivalent of Gaudete Sunday in Advent – both are Refreshment Sundays, meant to give a break from denials or fasting and the somberness that accompany penitential seasons of...

Here we are in the last week of Epiphany, and next week we will gather in the evening for Shrove Tuesday dinner, and then burn the palms, and say farewell to including the Alleluias in our prayers until the Easter Vigil. The Daily Office comprises Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline. The Invitatory Psalm, one of the opening portions of Morning Prayer, includes an Antiphon appropriate to the season, that is said before and after the Invitatory Psalm (an example of...