Tag Archives: peace

What do you hope for?

Posted on May 11, 2016 by deborahmeister

Last weekend, our parish set up an enormous graffiti-board at a festival called Flowermart  that we knew was going to draw a couple thousand people. (Jim Quigley blogged about the idea here: http://stalbansdc.org/the-daily-cup/from-bones-to-hope/.) What happened was pretty magical: People of all ages … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Cities

Posted on April 22, 2015 by deborahmeister

Over the last several months, our nation has been compelled to undertake a serious examination of the ways we treat our African-American brothers and sisters, and particularly of the ways that they interact with many police forces. For people of … Continue reading →

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In the Beginning There Was Hope

Posted on December 18, 2014 by sonyasutton

My reply to the question “What do you want for Christmas?” started as a joke.  “World Peace.” But why joke about it? Why not wish for it in earnest? The human race has never been particularly drawn towards peaceful resolution … Continue reading →

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Requiem aeternam

Posted on October 30, 2014 by sonyasutton

My morning walks these past few weeks have given me a chance to ponder our collective need to decorate for Halloween. Colorful leaves seem like decoration enough, but the faux graves, rattling skeletons, graceful ghosts, and less poetic effigies of … Continue reading →

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Right versus right

Posted on March 20, 2014 by sonyasutton

Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, 7th century Bishop, appears on the liturgical calendar for today, although in parentheses, with the day actually devoted to Lenten Feria, meaning a plain old day without a saint to celebrate.  I happened to have been in … Continue reading →

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Gifts

Posted on March 13, 2014 by sonyasutton

God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)  Peace is my last gift to you, my peace I leave with you; Peace … Continue reading →

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Eleventh Hour; Eleventh Day; Eleventh Month

Posted on November 10, 2013 by jimq2012

In reading the title of my blog entry this week history buffs already know where we are headed…  the remembrance of that day in 1918 at Compiegne when on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month … Continue reading →

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St. James of Jerusalem

Posted on October 23, 2013 by deborahmeister

Today is the feast of St. James of Jerusalem, the brother of Our Lord. The readings for today contain one of the most heart-rendingly beautiful unfulfilled prophecies in Scripture: “Behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. … Continue reading →

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Innisfree

Posted on October 9, 2013 by deborahmeister

I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And … Continue reading →

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How pleasant for brethen to dwell together in unity

Posted on November 8, 2012 by sonyasutton

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. –Psalm 133:1 Leonard Bernstein was commissioned to write a work for a choir festival held at Chichester Cathedral in 1965.  He was given free rein … Continue reading →

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