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Take with You Words: Unsaid
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Take with You Words. Reflections on scripture, liturgy and literature read through Benedictine eyes. Sunday, December 21, 2014. Today is the Fourth Sunday of Advent. The Gospel of the day is the story of the Annunciation, Luke 1:26-35. What is most haunting about the story of the Annunciation is not what's said but what isn't. No where, no when, no time of day, no picture for the eye to hold . No introductions, no preliminaries except to calm her fears so she could hear. No warning of the earthquake.
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Take with You Words: December 2012
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Take with You Words. Reflections on scripture, liturgy and literature read through Benedictine eyes. Monday, December 24, 2012. The hungry darkness prowls the street. A whisper troubles him. Long dead arisen from—who knows. The where, the when? His long complacency. A spark,. A light, a star—the whisper grows. In corners, flickers, and is gone. A child, he hears. Ah, he will take. Precautions, weave unwelcome in. A bed of straw to greet. The newborn danger, ox and ass. The shadows cringe, retreat.
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Take with You Words: March 2014
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Take with You Words. Reflections on scripture, liturgy and literature read through Benedictine eyes. Tuesday, March 11, 2014. The Lesson of Harriet Tubman. In the current issue of Give Us This Day. The gospel doesn’t much hold with daydreaming instead of doing. For us, the real lesson of Harriet Tubman is that wherever we are on the road to freedom, we must keep going back for those behind us. Where would we be, after all, if others hadn’t come back for us? Give Us This Day. Links to this post. The seeds...
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Take with You Words: January 2013
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Take with You Words. Reflections on scripture, liturgy and literature read through Benedictine eyes. Tuesday, January 29, 2013. A Yen for Order. Note: An abbreviated version of this post is published in Give Us This Day, February 2013. Give Us This Day is a personal prayer periodical published by The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN. Perhaps it's because we don't really understand what life in all its richness is. 169;2009 Abbey of St. Walburga. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A contemp...
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Take with You Words: Sheep and Goats
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Take with You Words. Reflections on scripture, liturgy and literature read through Benedictine eyes. Sunday, November 23, 2014. Today is the Solemnity of Christ the King. The gospel chosen for Year A is the story of the last judgment, found in Matthew 25:31-46. Born left-handed, I get a little twitchy when I read this parable. Jesus assumes we know more than we do about the work habits of Palestinian shepherds. Why separate sheep from goats? 8221; “When didn’t we…? 169;2014 Abbey of St. Walburga. A conte...
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Take with You Words: Cough Drop Pep Talks
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Take with You Words. Reflections on scripture, liturgy and literature read through Benedictine eyes. Monday, July 6, 2015. Cough Drop Pep Talks. This morning, my cough drop wrapper spoke to me. Oh, not out loud. But I noticed that the white wrapper trellised in dark yellow also bore bright blue markings. Unfolded and smoothed out, the wrapper yielded up a series of brief inspirational sayings, like “Get back in there champ! 8221;, “Go for it! 8221;, and “Be resilient! Even those deprived of hearing and s...
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Take with You Words: Advent Mountain Climbing
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Take with You Words. Reflections on scripture, liturgy and literature read through Benedictine eyes. Thursday, December 11, 2014. 8220;Come, let us go up to the Lord’s! 8221; (Isaiah 2:3) Isaiah’s invitation sets our itinerary for the Advent season. Come along, we have someplace important to go! Why the mountain of the Lord? Aren’t we supposed to be headed for Bethlehem? The mountain of the Lord, on the other hand, lies in the past and. Lambs inviting wolves to dinner? These passages from Isaiah, and mor...
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Take with You Words: February 2014
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Take with You Words. Reflections on scripture, liturgy and literature read through Benedictine eyes. Wednesday, February 5, 2014. You'd have thought they'd have been glad of it and maybe said thank you or invited him over for a meal or asked if he needed anything. Instead, they grumbled. They recognized his wisdom. They acknowledged his power to work wonders. And they didn't like it. No doubt their response grieved Jesus, who couldn’t even heal their sick, except maybe for a few friends or neighbor...
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Take with You Words: Judas
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Take with You Words. Reflections on scripture, liturgy and literature read through Benedictine eyes. Tuesday, April 15, 2014. A shorter version of this reflection appears in the April, 2014 issue of Give Us This Day, published by The Liturgical Press. Judas Iscariot went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you? 8221; They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over. (Matthew 26:14-16). I wonder if ...
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Take with You Words: April 2013
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Take with You Words. Reflections on scripture, liturgy and literature read through Benedictine eyes. Sunday, April 7, 2013. This reflection appears in the April 2013 issue of Give Us This Day published by the Liturgical Press, Collegeville MN. It is reprinted here with permission of the Liturgical Press. While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. And here he is, g...
