Liturgical Time and the Celtic Advent Calendar 2016
2022 Advent Calendar is here. Day 14 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. I studied for my MDiv at a school embedded in a monastic community. Each d...
Friday Florilegium
A month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. On Love What inexpressible joy for me, to look up through the apple-blossoms and the fluttering leaves, and to see...
Sweeping God
Day 12 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. During the student years, I had a little house cleaning and home organization business. Cleaning is one ...
On Messiness
Day 11 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. Ideas are clean. They soar in the serene supernal. I can take them out and look at them, they fit in boo...
Counting Gratitudes
Day 10 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. Every time I walk back from work to the cottage, and I see it perched on it’s little hill, I ...
On Kitchen Counters and Simple Delights
Day 9 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. For many years, I was a “clean the kitchen counters in the morning” girl. I always felt that ...
Snail Mail
Day 8 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. Only for a culture that values speed above all is snail a negative description. Back in 1998, the mo...
Friday Florilegium
Day 7 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. When I visit the Trappist monasteries near Dubuque or the Sisters of the Love of God in Oxford, England, ...
The Daily Office
Day 6 in a month-long series on Cultivating Sanctuary. Lord Jesus, stay with us, for evening is at hand and the day is past; be our companion in the way, kindle...