Category: meditiations

  • 1997: Like PrEP but Covid

    Continuing the series of posts comparing this current situation to the AIDS crisis in the 80s, after 1985 and 1987 it seems good to skip a bit of time, to 1997 and today. The parallels continue to hold. In conversation, recently, a friend and I were discussing the huge change that came over the Gay…

  • But in this time

    The Paschal Preface in the Roman Rite is only used from Easter to Ascension (or is it Pentecost? I don’t know). It’s present in the Novus Ordo nearly verbatim from the older order. Borrowing from Rome, the same text is also present in the 79 BCP for Episcopalians and in the People’s Anglican Missal for…

  • There is No Place God-Free

    Advent means meditation on the Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell; and the longer I thought about it, I realized that my usual image was too static. The catechism says that it is separation from God (¶1033) but the church also says that God is Omnipresent . The Psalmist asks, Whither shall I…

  • Filling All Things with Light

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Solemnity of the Ascension (B2) Acts 1:1-11 Ephesians 4:1-13 Mark 16:15-20 Propter quod dicit : Ascendens in altum, captivam duxit captivitatem : dedit dona hominibus. Quod autem ascendit, quid est, nisi quia et descendit primum in inferiores partes terrae? Qui descendit, ipse est et qui ascendit super omnes caelos, ut…

  • A family like yours or mine…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for TuesdayToday is  in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Joseph the Worker Acts 14:19-28 John 14:27-31A Quoniam per multas tribulationes oportet nos intrare in regnum Dei. Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God. Today is the Memorial of St Joseph the Worker. I think Joseph knew tribulations:…