Reflections for Feastdays

Feast of the Holy Trinity

May 26, 2024

The Feast of the Holy Trinity is, in a way, a recapitulation of our Easter journey. It summarizes what the last six weeks have told us about God and what he expects of us. This is a God of relationships. His whole nature is to be in relationship. That’s why our understanding of God can

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Pentecost Sunday

May 19, 2024

Through the weeks of Eastertide we have followed the growing understanding of what it meant for Jesus to remain with us after his resurrection. Starting from the confusion immediately following the empty tomb; to the recognition by the women who were closest to Jesus,  and the rest of the disciples, that he was still present;

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Palm Sunday

March 24, 2024

We arrive at Palm Sunday, and I confess I’ve never been entirely sure whether this is part of Lent, the end of Lent, or whatever. The beginning at Ash Wednesday is very clear and simple, the end not so much. Maybe there’s a lesson in there somewhere! The full title of this feast is “Palm

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Pentecost Sunday

June 5, 2022

With the Feast of Pentecost we come to the end of our Easter season. As we noted last week, Luke is the only gospel writer who organizes his material to give us accounts of the Ascension and Pentecost in that discrete form. These are wonderful and powerful ways of describing how the disciples felt during

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