‘Beloved, let us love one another’ by Christina Rossetti

‘Beloved, let us love one another,’ says St. John,
Eagle of eagles calling from ...

How the Work of Christmas Begins

When the song of the angels is stilled,

Love (III)


Love bade me welcome.  Yet my soul drew back

                Guilty of dust ...

May there always be room in your heart for divinity to find a birthing place.
May you be holy as the ...

The Gift -  Mary Oliver

Be still, my soul, and steadfast.
Earth and heaven both are still watching
though time is draining from the clock
and ...

Starlings in Winter by Mary Oliver

Chunky and noisy,
but with stars in their black feathers,
they spring from the telephone wire
and instantly

they ...

Merry Christmas season and happy eating!

Contributed by Sarah Johnson

An epigram by the American poet Edwin Markham (1852-1940):


Outwitted


He drew a circle that shut me out —

Heretic, rebel, a thing ...

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one ...

Winter Morning Poem

Winter is the king of showmen,
Turning tree stumps into snow men
And houses into birthday cakes
And spreading sugar over ...

Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7 New Living Translation

I remember as a very young girl kneeling as we sang Silent Night,

Lights dimmed suggesting ...

Photo of Our Lady of Pompeii in NYC taken by Lindsay Kennedy

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
How lovely are your ...

Minstrels

The minstrels played their Christmas tune
To-night beneath my cottage-eaves;
While, smitten by a lofty moon,
The encircling laurels, thick with leaves,
Gave back ...

     The winter solstice, celebrated by Celtic Christians, not only marks the longest night of the year, but ...

Snow

Gillian Clarke 

The dreamed Christmas,
flakes shaken out of silences so far
and starry we can’t sleep for listening
for papery rustles out there ...

In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rossetti

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,

Earth stood hard as iron, water like a ...

John 3:16-17

16 For God so loved ...

O Holy Night!
The stars are brightly shining
It is the night of the dear Savior's birth!
Long lay the world in sin ...

Ring out, ye bells!
   All Nature swells
With gladness at the wondrous story,—
   The world was lorn,
 ...

Prayer is when you talk to God;

Meditation is when you listen.

 Diana Robinson

Contributed by Sherrie Beke