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Walking through Advent toward the Light

December 14, 2022 By Mary Lee Wile

Back in the early ‘80’s, when I was still living in Colorado, on Good Friday mornings a friend and I would take the 4 to 5 a.m. Night Watch shift at church, then we’d drive out to Warren Lake.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, grandchildren, politics

A lunch bag, a water bottle, and an empty tissue box

November 29, 2022 By Kit Lonergan 2 Comments

Not one person in my life would accuse me of being chronically organized.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Advent

Not that Kind of King

November 20, 2022 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

We’re almost there: the ending of the season after Pentecost which is also the beginning of Advent and a new Church Year. But, as we move into this final Green Growing Sunday, we also encounter a potential stumbling block.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Christ the King, Godly Play, Wiggles & Wonder

All Faithful Departed: Learning to Grieve

November 2, 2022 By Genevieve Razim Leave a Comment

“When you were a child, who taught you how to grieve?”

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: all souls, Commemoration of All Faithful Departed, death, grief

Remembering those we love but see no longer

November 1, 2022 By Ben Rockwell 1 Comment

All Saints’ Day encourages us to remember those faithful Christians who were the lights shining in those dark moments, the ones who helped our parishes endure.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: All Saints' Day, communion of saints, Halloween, traditions

Not So Creepy: The Invitation of All Hallows’ Eve

October 31, 2022 By Bird Treacy 1 Comment

All Hallows’ Eve offers us an invitation unlike anything else in our culture.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: All Hallow's Eve, Bible, death, Halloween

An Invitation from Ordinary Time

October 27, 2022 By Caroline Rossini Leave a Comment

Every now and then, something ordinary breaks through the monotony of daily rhythms and takes my breath away.

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Preparing our household for Allhallowtide

October 21, 2022 By Bonnie Smith Whitehouse 2 Comments

When suffering and grief inevitably find them, I want my children to be able to access the rituals of Allhallowtide

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: All Hallow's Eve, All Saints' Day, all souls, Commemoration of All Faithful Departed, death, parenting

Gentle Mary

July 26, 2022 By Mariclair Partee Carlsen 1 Comment

In the early months of the pandemic, locked down with my young children in a too small city row house with no real backyard to speak of, I found myself losing my patience, something already in short supply, much like milk, diapers, and grocery delivery slots.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, coronavirus, Jesus Christ, parenting

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: a qualitative not quantitative union

June 12, 2022 By Tim Gavin 2 Comments

What I remember most about learning my catechism as a child is memorizing facts about why God loved me.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Trinity Sunday

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