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Celtic Advent Calendar 2025
With great joy, I share with you the 16th annual Celtic Advent Calendar 2025 (through Christmas to Epiphany!). You can read more about why I created this calend...
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Gaudete!
When I make my morning tea and pray the Angelus, the little buds whisper, "Spring is coming."
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A Contemplative Life
Contemplative life is not about creating a physically quiet life. Contemplative life can be lived in noisy contexts: families, cities, work, commutes, instabili...
Moving to Substack
Dear faithful followers, After much thought, I am going to move to Substack for future blog posts. Substack offers a strong community for writers and expanded o...
Celtic Advent Calendar 2025
You can read more about why I created this calendar here. Celtic Advent begins 40 days before Christmas and gives us more time for enjoying this season of prepa...
A Letter to Mary at the Foot of the Cross
A Good Friday homily preached via Zoom for St. John’s Episcopal Church, Dubuque. Isaiah 52:13-53:12Hebrews 10:16-25John 18:1-19:42Psalm 22
Observing Celtic Advent & Liturgical Time
This is the tenth year of the Contemplative Cottage Advent Calendar. Here is the 2025 calendar. I studied for my MDiv at a school embedded in a monastic communi...
Gardening Hearts – A Sermon
Once upon a time there was unfortunate young boy (or maybe he was very fortunate) who got swept into an adventure with some other children he despised. Thorny, ...
Spiritual Gardening: The Hope of Glory
Between the Ascension and Pentecost, the disciples waited and prayed, wondering what was next. We are waiting in uncertainty. How might we join those first disc...