All Souls
Rosalind Hughes
November 2, 2022
Nothing escapes the attention of their inquisitive and thorough beaks. Nothing extraneous will be left unconsumed. Between them, they are cleaning up.
Author: Rosalind Hughes
The widow and the judge
Rosalind Hughes
October 12, 2022
Can I free Jesus from my old and calcified, allegorically literal, algebraic interpretation of his parable about prayer and remember that God is not worn down by my cries, nor eroded by my need, nor numb to my grief, nor impassive to my witting and unwitting, egregious, and unnecessary participation in injustice?
The call of Matthew
Rosalind Hughes
September 21, 2022
If you were to write a gospel, what would you include? what might you leave out? Would you slide in a cameo of the time
A prayer for the dreamer
Rosalind Hughes
August 31, 2022
Did Jesus delight in the absurdity of dreamscape?
Was he ever afraid to close his eyes?
Lost in prayer
Rosalind Hughes
August 10, 2022
Sometimes when I pray the words scurry by like ants I watch their silent progress unregistered on the kitchen scale undulating in their trail unnoticed until they become a swarm indistinguishable one from
One tells its tale
Rosalind Hughes
July 20, 2022
Psalm 19:2 “One day tells its tale to another, and one night imparts knowledge to another.”
Pistols into ploughshares
Rosalind Hughes
June 29, 2022
June is, among other commemorations, gun violence awareness month. As part of the work of addressing and redressing gun violence, my parish hosted a Guns to Gardens: National Buyback Day event on June 11th. While we are still mentally and spiritually processing the ways in which God has called us to confront gun violence, I found myself reflecting on the experience of standing before the forge that afternoon, physically processing gun parts into garden tools …
Feed the birds
Rosalind Hughes
June 8, 2022
It is time to look for the hand of Providence, to cry as a bird in the nest, to look up, and not down into the emptiness at my own feet.
His eye is on the sparrow
Rosalind Hughes
May 18, 2022
That one,
heir to the earth
in the fluorescent heavens
of the grocery hall:
the sparrow cannot fall,
it will not fall uncaught
by the eye of God.
Recognition
Rosalind Hughes
April 27, 2022
Recognition Resurrection plus ten: is the shock wearing off or setting in? That time when the child was lost three days, three hours, three minutes
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