Welcome to Emmanuel Voices’ Holy Week Series “Holed Up for a Year, I Hope…” Premiering Saturday, March 27, 2021 Click to listen. “Holed Up for a Year, I Hope…” is a Holy Week blogging project that I dreamed up. A few weeks ago in our Thursday Weekly E-news, this is the call I put out…
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Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O God, my rock and my redeemer. Amen. This is our fifth Sunday in Lent. Next week is Palm Sunday, that strange, difficult…
I love wrestling with angels. I love the give and take of a good argument. I love finding those places in life where you can let your hair down without a filter. I love nothing better than a relaxed, honest, genuine and kind conversation. Tinged with humor, God’s greatest gift. And having reached “the age…
I know it is the fourth Sunday in Lent. A purple day. But it is also just three days short of St. Patrick’s Day. A green day, if there ever was one. So, instead of the lectionary today, I am going to draw on the deep well of Celtic spirituality. But, I will pull one…
Today is March 14 and it is the fourth Sunday of Lent. But is also just three days away from St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick is a very famous Irish saint. I bet you have heard of him. Today I want to tell you about another Irish saint who should be famous. Her name is…
When I was growing up our family observed a time-honored ritual every year which was affectionately known as “spring cleaning.” Unlike the normal cleaning from week to week, which amounted to dusting and vacuuming and generally straightening up, spring cleaning was an all-out assault on a year’s worth of filth and clutter. It was commonly…
Have you ever been to a library? There’s a special rule for how we use our voices there, right? (Do you remember the rule? How do we speak in a library?) That’s right – we use very quiet voices in the library because we don’t want to disturb anyone who might be reading. Now things…
