The Advent of Advent
The First Monday of Advent It is the advent of Advent—the beginning of the beginning. We have entered a new liturgical year (B, if you’ve not been...
Trusting the Light in the Dark
First Sunday of Advent “Why do you let us wander, O Lord, from your ways, and harden our hearts so that we fear you not?” This passage from our first...
Prepare the Way of the Lord
A few mornings ago, I was running along the trail at the base of East Rock with one of our students who was telling me about their experience...
Stay Awake and Be Ready!
“Stay awake and be ready! For you know neither the day nor the hour that your Lord will come” (Matthew 24:42a, 44; 25:13).