The heavens are full of ruby-hued jewels, alive with the ridged wrinkles of glistening garnets, awash in the juices of fruitful glory. Ah, the delectable flesh of this sky! Round the center seeds small and smaller wink like stars in a carnelian firmament, the center itself a nebula where a million suns cluster in […]
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Posted in Growing in God, Reading on Dec 19th, 2014
“O stock of Jesse, you stand as a sign for the peoples. Kings fall silent before you, the nations acclaim you: delay no longer, but come to free us.” —the Magnificat antiphon for December 19 It is the week before Christmas, which means it is the week of the O Antiphons. I first experienced the […]
I’m sorry I’ve been such a stranger these last weeks. We’ve been trying to buy a house (and finally did), so that we would have somewhere to move at the end of the month when the woman who bought our house moves in. It’s been a crazy, stressful roller coaster of a month, but we […]
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