Holy Innocents

I pray at your feet, Child of Aleppo, seeking mercy for my ignorance and unyielding heart. I pray at your feet, Child of Eritrea, seeking forgiveness for the violence of global capitalism. I pray at your feet, Child of Bethlehem, seeking pardon and consolation through...

Christmas Day

Hark! the messenger angels sing. It is finished! Love has come! Our spirits soar, O mighty God, at the magnitude and majesty: there you are among us, the Infant Savior — and here you are among us, the Wonderful Mystery! We are bursting with the news: Love is...

Christmas Eve

Give your reverence. Give your awe. Give your silence, your humility, your rapturous tears. Give all in honor of the Child who is God’s glory, And let there be peace. Let there be glad penance. Let there be no room in your heart for aught but love. on Luke...

Advent Candle Liturgies: Isaiah

I’m ready for Advent — Christmas too, but Advent especially. I find that the season’s wild imagination and perilous possibilities confront my pessimism, my complacency, my worry, and they challenge: “Well then? If you perceive the world’s...

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...

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