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…
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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…
Communion of Saints
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Saint Brigid of Kildare
St. Brigid of Kildare, Abbess & Virgin(Bride, Bridget, Brigit, Ffraid)—————————————————————Born at Faughart (near Dundalk) or Uinmeras (near Kildare), Louth,Ireland, c. 450; died at Kildare, Ireland, c. 525; feast of hertranslation is June 10. “We implore Thee, by the memory of Thy Cross’s hallowed and most bitteranguish, make us fear Thee,…
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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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Saint Willibrord of Northumbria
St. Willibrord of Northumbria, Apostle to Friesland, Bishop Born in Northumbria, Britain, 658; died in Echternach, Luxembourg, 739. His name indicates that he is of Saxon lineage (‘Willi’ is a great god of Norse mythology; ‘brord’ indicates ‘under the protection of’). Willibrord, first Archbishop of Utrecht, is one of the…
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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…
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Saint Ninian of Whithorn
St. Ninian Bishop of Whithorn (Nynia, Ninnidh) Apostle to the Picts, Abbot of Candida Casa (White House) Monastery, Bishop of Whithorn Bishop and confessor; date of birth unknown; died about 432; the first Apostle of Christianity in Scotland. The earliest account of him is in Bede (Hist. Eccles., III, 4):…