ReadingsSusanna 41–62Psalm 23John 8:1–11
The Olfactory Sacrament
When I was very little, I used to visit my mother’s mother. And my mother’s mother’s mother lived upstairs. Her room was a mysterious place, alluring and a bit forbidding. She was in her mid-90s, of German descent, a faithful Lutheran, a holy woman. What I remember about going up to call on her in […]
The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge – March 4, 2019
Readings Ecclesiasticus 17:24–29 Psalm 32:1–8 Mark 10:17–27
The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge: Feast of St. Matthias – February 25, 2019
Readings Acts 1:15–26 Psalm 15 John 15:1, 6–16
The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge – February 18, 2019
Readings Genesis 4:1–15, 25 Psalm 50:7–24 Mark 8:11–13
The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge – February 11, 2019
Readings Genesis 1:1–19 Psalm 104:1–12, 25 Mark 6:53–56
The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge – February 4, 2019
Readings Hebrews 2:14–18 Psalm 84 Luke 2:22–40
Beginning Again
The Sacred and the Profane, by Mircea Eliade, was the first book assigned in Religion 101, my first course at Williams College. I remember that in the opening chapters, Eliade writes about New Year rituals, celebrated by “religious man,” in which the cosmos was recreated and time began again. “Since the New Year is a […]
Advent Meditations: Tuesday, December 25
Christmas Day Psalm 66, 67, 116, 117 • Isaiah 11:10–16 • Luke 1:5–25 A stable lamp is lighted whose glow shall wake the sky; the stars shall bend their voices, and every stone shall cry. And every stone shall cry, and straw like gold shall shine; a barn shall harbour heaven, a stall become a […]
My Body, Body of Jesus
The vivid passion story in the gospel of Mark is essential to the meaning of the gospel and is likely the first part of Mark’s story to be told orally and later to be written down. The story of Jesus’ passion is the earth from which the rest of the gospel grew. It’s a […]