Sixth Sunday after EpiphanyYear ARCL Radical Obedience from the Inside Out By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC If we are completely honest with ourselves, most of us like a clear, straightforward rulebook. Rules make life manageable. They give us a baseline for what is acceptable, and they let us know exactly…
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You Are the Light of the World
Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyYear ARCL You Are the Light of the World By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC There is a big difference between a faith that is merely visible and a faith that is actually vital. We see this tension jump right out at us in our reading from Isaiah….
The Threshold of the Temple
The Presentation of Our LordFebruary 2RCL The Threshold of the Temple By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Have you ever had the experience of waiting for something for so long that you forgot what it actually felt like to hope? Maybe it’s waiting for a biopsy result, waiting for a child…
Shadows, Fractures, and the Net
Third Sunday after the EpiphanyYear ARCL Shadows, Fractures, and the Net By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC If we are honest with ourselves, it is incredibly easy to look at the world around us, and sometimes even the world inside our own hearts, and feel like we are navigating a landscape…
What Are You Looking For?
Second Sunday after EpiphanyYear ARCL What Are You Looking For? By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Every single one of us, at some point in our lives, has sat down, looked at our hard work, our relationships, or our spiritual lives, and felt a heavy, sinking feeling. It’s the feeling that…
The Voice on the Waters
First Sunday after the EpiphanyThe Baptism of our LordYear ARCL The Voice on the Waters By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC There is a striking contrast in our readings today between two different kinds of power. It’s a contrast that challenges almost everything our world tells us about what it means…
Home by Another Way
Second Sunday after Christmas DayAll Years Home by Another Way By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC If you look closely at the readings today, you might notice a profound tension. It’s a tension we all live with every single day: the gap between the world as it is, fragile, unpredictable, sometimes…
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Seasons of Love and the New Year
As we come to the close of 2018, may we each take time to reflect on how we have measured this past year. If we have not measured it in love, then I fear we may have missed the point. So, as we step into 2019, I invite you to…
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Samhain Liturgy
I wanted to share a wonderful liturgy resource from the Celtic Catholic Church, Diocese of Saint Brendan. We have used these prayers for years now in our annual liturgical celebration of All Hallows’ Eve within Shepherd’s Heart. May you find them as meaningful and beautiful as we do. The following…
Communion of Saints
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Saint Melangell
Our ministry is dedicated to Saint Melangell, she has always been our patron saint. She’s a wonderful Celtic saint who spent her life trying to make a safe place for folks amongst the thorns, thickets, and briarpatches of society and of the world and that is our calling as well,…