Tag: luke
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Happy Groundhog Day
Well… sort of. While the sheer absurdity of watching a groundhog predict the weather is certainly an amusing distraction (which I thoroughly enjoy), February 2 is also a lesser-known day in the liturgical calendar—Candlemas. Candlemas occurs forty days after Christmas and marks the official end of the Christmas season. It goes by several names: the…
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Christ’s Mandate
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also…
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Christmas 2020
And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” Luke 1:38 2020 was a year that no one expected, planned for, or wanted. No one planned for mass unemployment, thousands of people dead from a global pandemic, heightened racial tensions, murder hornets, snake infested…
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Hidden Easter
“That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.”…
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Christmas: Do Not Fear
And ye, beneath life’s crushing load, whose forms are bending low, who toil along the climbing way with painful steps and slow, look now! for glad and golden hours come swiftly on the wing. O rest beside the weary road, and hear the angels sing! – It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, vs 3 The…
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Advent: Preparation for a Banquet
“I tell you, I will never again drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.” Matthew 26:29 A traditionally Eucharistic passage may seem like an odd place to begin Advent. A passage from Isaiah prophesying the first or second coming of Messiah…
Joshua Strickler 