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Reflections on the common table: who has a seat?

If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.― Shauna Niequist If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. — Michael Enzi I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the […]

Meditations on freedom: spiritual and social

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. — Jean-Paul Sartre The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. — Coco Chanel When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. — Ralph Ellison We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at […]

Texts for Vigil: Maundy Thursday to Holy Friday

John 18-19The Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus18 After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples. 3 So Judas […]

Holy Week Meditation: Wed, Mar 31

Text for Wednesday: John 13:21-32 — Jesus Foretells His Betrayal 21 After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, “Very truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me.” 22 The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he was speaking. 23 One of his disciples—the one whom Jesus loved—was reclining next to him; […]

Meditations on Palm Sunday

The word endures. The Word endures. We who stand among the Palm Sunday crowds know that the Word will soon be beaten, mocked, and killed. We know, too, that that is not the end of the tale. — Jan Richardson “Hey sanna, ho sanna, sanna, sanna, hey sanna, ho sanna sanna sanna , ho sanna, hey […]

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