This coming Sunday’s readings from Proper 8A prolong in the worshiper a sense of end-time-like distress, though the content is not about our future but the present, the world in which we now live under the reign of Christ who has come, died, risen, and ascended. Accompanied by these Year A readings in particular, the…
Today in the Spirit: Proper 7A
The messaging the church puts forward at this stage on Sundays in Year A is hard going on both the ears and the heart, and yet as always laced with grace. Building on readings from prior weeks, the focus is on the reality of spiritual opposition to our Lord’s work of the gospel and to…
Today in the Spirit: Proper 6A
On the Third Sunday After Pentecost this year, with the church’s assignment of prayers and readings in Proper 6A, we continue receiving revelation from God for day-to-day life walking with Christ in the fellowship of the Spirit. The Collect this week asks for “inspiration” by the Holy Spirit that we may “always” (routinely and constantly)…
Today in the Spirit: Proper 5A
Easter Day fell toward the middle of April this year, so we are jumping in the ordinary season all the way to Proper 5A for readings on the Second Sunday After Pentecost. The Collect petitions God who is sovereign in the world to grant the Church a peaceful environment in which to accomplish the work…
The Feast of the Visitation: A Rookie Anglican Guide
The Church celebrates the Feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth and Zechariah on May 31st. It commemorates Mary’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth, Jesus’s first meeting with John the Baptist while both were in utero, and Mary’s joyful praise as expressed in her Magnificat. The Collect Almighty God, by whose grace…
Today in the Spirit: Trinity Sunday A
It is no wonder that many Provinces of the Anglican Communion still retain the traditional title “Trinity” (instead of “Pentecost”) for the season we now enter in the church year. The Sunday lectionary prayers and readings in the last few weeks of Easter, as much as they have prepared us for “Whitsunday” (the old name…
