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  • The Downward Path to Glory

    Kenosis, Stillness, and the One Thing Needful — A Reflection for Ordinary Time on Philippians 2:5-11 and Luke 10:38-42; 11:27-28 You already know which sister you are. Not which you wish to be—which you are, right now, this morning, in the unguarded hours before you have composed yourself for public view. You are Martha. You…

  • The Night-Comer and the Wind That Knows Your Name

    Born Again Through Water and the Wound — A Reflection for Ordinary Time on Acts 2:38–43 and John 3:1–15 He comes by night—this Nicodemus, this ruler, this man heavy with learning and rank—and the darkness through which he moves is not merely astronomical. It is the darkness of a soul that knows something stirs beyond…

  • The Fig Tree Knew You Before You Knocked

    Death Cannot Hold What Love Already Sees — A Reflection for Ordinary Time on Acts 2:22-36 and John 1:35-51 Two questions govern these readings, and they are the same question worn differently. Peter stands before Jerusalem and declares that death could not hold Christ—it was not possible that he should be holden of it (Acts…

  • The Road Where Hearts Catch Fire

    Bread, Bewilderment, and the Spirit Poured Out — A Reflection for Ordinary Time on Acts 2:14–21 and Luke 24:12–35 They walked away from Jerusalem. Note the direction. The city where everything had happened—the teaching, the arrest, the unthinkable execution—lay behind them, and Emmaus, that unremarkable village whose name means “warm springs,” lay ahead: a place…

  • The Word That Darkness Could Not Hold

    Light Before All Mornings — A Reflection for Pascha (The Resurrection of Our Lord) on Acts 1:1-8 and John 1:1-17 You have kept vigil. You have descended through the long darkness of Holy Week, through betrayal and silence and the sealed mouth of the tomb. And now—now the stone is rolled back, and what pours…

  • The Valley Where God Holds His Breath

    Bone-Fields and Unleavened Bread — A Reflection for Holy Saturday (Descent into Hades) on Ezekiel 37:1–14 and 1 Corinthians 5:6–8; Galatians 3:13–14 There is a stillness today that no other day in the Church’s year dares to hold. The tomb is sealed. The guards keep watch over what they imagine is a corpse. And beneath…

  • The Glory Hidden in the Garden’s Dark

    Where the I AM Falls Like Seed into Earth — A Reflection for Holy Friday (Crucifixion) on John 13:31–18:1 and John 18:1–28 Two gardens frame everything. In the upper room, the vine speaks to its branches of love, indwelling, and a joy no one can steal. Then the brook Cedron is crossed—that thin stream between…

  • The Mountain That Learned to Burn as Bread

    Where Smoke Becomes Supper — A Reflection for Holy Thursday (Mystical Supper) on Jeremiah 11:18–12:15 and Exodus 19:10–19 There is a lamb being led, and he does not know it yet. Jeremiah speaks as one ambushed by his own beloveds: I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and…

  • The Scroll, the Sand, and the Sweetness of Grief

    Eating What You Cannot Bear — A Reflection for Holy Wednesday on Ezekiel 2:3–3:3 and Exodus 2:11–22 On this day a woman shatters an alabaster flask over the head of the One who will be dead by Friday, and the house fills with a fragrance so extravagant that Judas—who knows the price of everything and…

  • The Throne Above the Water, the Child Within the Reeds

    Glory Descends Where Compassion Stoops — A Reflection for Holy Tuesday on Ezekiel 1:21–28 and Exodus 2:5–10 On Holy Tuesday the Lord sits in the Temple and strips every mask from the faces of the powerful. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward,…