Note: Celebrating Sabbath is my attempt to start each week with a reminder of our identity: whose we are and who we're called to be. The obvious and only real choice today: the first - and still the best - Christmas song. Yep, Mary's Magnificat. That is, the song Mary sings as she visits her …
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Celebrating Sabbath
Note: Celebrating Sabbath is my attempt to begin the week with a reminder of our true identity: whose we are and who we are called to be. Let's reboot this series with the verses I've said should be our first responder, our top go-to text, our new leadoff hitter: Acts 10:34-35 Peter: 34 It is clear to …
Celebrating Sabbath
Today is the final day of Advent, the time of waiting for the birth of Jesus. For Christians, Jesus is the Christ, aka the Messiah, aka the Anointed One, aka the Liberating King. What sort of king will he be? The words of Psalm 72, though ancient and not written about Jesus, give us insight …
Celebrating Sabbath
But as Jesus was coming out of the waters, He looked up and saw the sky split open. The Spirit of God descended upon Him like a dove, and a voice echoed in the heavens. Voice: You are My Son, My beloved One, and I am very pleased with You. ...After John was arrested by …
Celebrating Sabbath
What is salvation? Father Richard Rohr offers this fascinating take: God-in-you already knows, loves, and serves God in everything else. All you can do is fully jump on board. I would call that jump consciousness, and I believe the Risen Christ is the icon of full consciousness. In the human mind of Christ, every part …
Celebrating Sabbath
More wise words from Father Richard Rohr. Reading his daily meditations helps me root each day in scripture, in truth, in God's love. All of Jesus’ guidance for ministry, his seeming “tips for the road,” are very concrete and interpersonal. They are all about putting people in touch with specific people, and especially with people’s …
Celebrating Sabbath
More wisdom from St. Francis via Father Richard Rohr: Overcoming the split of the mind from the body was probably easier for St. Francis because he wasn’t an intellectual. He was almost anti-intellectual because he saw what it did to so many clergy. They couldn’t touch reality anymore. They confused words with reality. Don’t fall …
Celebrating Sabbath
The Feast of Saint Francis was this week. I don't think I've ever met someone who didn't like Francis. I mean, really, who doesn't love him? (Well, I suppose war mongers and gnostics don't. But I don't think I've ever encountered anyone who openly self-identifies either way.) The famous prayer of peace attributed to Francis …
Celebrating Sabbath
Today's reading from Galatians chapter 5, The Voice version: For the whole law comes down to this one instruction: "Love your neighbor as yourself," - so why all this vicious gnawing on each other? If you are not careful, you will find you've eaten each other alive! Here's my instruction: walk in the Spirit, and …
Celebrating Sabbath
The International Day of Peace (aka World Peace Day) was this week. Seems to me that everyday is a good - and important - day to pray for peace. Of course, as the song says, if there is to be peace on earth, it must begin with me. My go-to prayer is a simple breath …
All That I Can't Leave Unsaid 