Are you perpetually getting ready? Always looking ahead, preparing for the next event, the next project, the next vacation, the next thing you think you need to do? The great waiting seasons of the church — Advent and Lent — raise preparation to a high art form. It takes constant reminders to ourselves to come into the present, to be mindful of where and what we are in the moment. Or as Father Greg Boyle would say, “Now. Here. This.”

Worship Materials: Palm Sunday

The events of Holy Week reveal the complexity of human nature - of how loyalty and treachery, callousness and tenderness can live side by side in people's hearts.

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Lent: A 40 Day Fast

INTRODUCTION Who are we? Jesus responded to the Jews preparing to stone him: "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'" John 10:34

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About “Markingsmass: A Liturgy for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation”

Dag Hammarskjold was Secretary General of the United Nations when he died in a plane crash in Africa in 1961 while on a peace-keeping mission. Widely admired for his performance in that role, he was rewarded posthumously with the Nobel Peace Prize. Distinguished as his diplomatic career was, it has been equaled remarkably in public interest in a very different sphere—that of Christian spirituality--by the publication of Markings, a sort of diary or journal published after his death. It has remained in print since the 1960’s and is generally considered one of the great Christian devotional classics of the twentieth century, frequently compared with the works of St. Augustine, Pascal, Merton and other important Christian writers.

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