Midnight on New Year’s

Would that I could escape this second, stretch out from the bubble that is this hour, and touch the hem of your robe there where you wade on the horizon, there where you watch the world go by out-of-sequence, there where you midwife death into birth and mourning into...

Coventry

Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child bye bye we say this day. Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child bye bye along your way. O brothers, all, see how death falls; let anger be displayed, and to this child wrapped in a shawl sing you lully lullay. Dear sisters, too,...

Christmas Creed

And now what has been is forever again; And now these days we have watched are as a dream fading at dawn; And now the best of our longings are idle fantasies as the Desire of all creation takes its throne; And now we catch our breath and bend our knee at This: the...

Theotokos

Bless you, Mary, mother of God, for your courage and effort to give life to God in impossible circumstances: in full knowledge of the glory, in complete certainty of the pain. Bless you, Mary, for bearing God into the world and bless us to follow your...

Eschaton

And when the world is over, when life changes so utterly that we no longer recognize it, when the heavens break just as disastrously as our hearts, when the earth trembles and buckles and knocks the wind from our sails, when death descends to the bitter silence of the...

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