Tag: Holiness
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Holey and Holy
I’m swimming in the Gulf, off the coast of Osprey, Florida (near Sarasota) a few days ago while in town celebrating my mom’s 90th birthday. And as I often do when in ocean water, and have stopped swimming to take in the vista around me … I dig for seashells with my feet. I find…
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Holy Mosh Pit
(Please be aware that during the season of Lent, these weekly devotions will be arriving in your inbox on Tuesdays.) Chaos … it looked like human chaos. People all over the place … clots of three, four and seven people …different topics circulating in each group … loud laughter … all fueled by Anne’s cookies…
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Faith Rituals in a Secular World
Everyone is decked out in their uniforms for their morning responsibilities. They gather in a circle and create a bit of sanctuary amid the chaos that surrounds them … laughter, movement, local urchins running around, and beverages being consumed. Their leader offers up ritual words for the task before them, invoking God’s blessing on their…
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The Saints Who Walk Among Us
In biblical Greek the word that is most commonly translated as “saint” is hagios. Note that the word hagios is actually an adjective, not a noun. It is a word that describes. Its best translation is “sacred” or “holy.” In the Bible it is often used to describe God’s word … as St. Paul does,…
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Cathedrals
Email Devotion, Pentecost 8 O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. –Psalm 8:1, NRSV I was driving home from a day with our youth at this year’s Confirmation Camp at Camp Kirchenwald. And as I was heading south along Mt. Wilson…
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Holy Vessels
Email Devotion, Pentecost 6 “Qodesh cheres … Holy vessels.” That was the phrase the guest rabbi used in his comments. But in describing the Jewish usage of the phrase, he noted that the description did not mean a vessel which embodies holiness in its nature, but that of an ordinary vessel holding holy things. The…