Rosalind Hughes – Page 3 – Episcopal Journal

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

Do not rush to Easter

Rosalind Hughes April 6, 2022

(An invitation to the observance of Holy Week) Do not rush to Easter You may stumble over someone slowly carrying their cross, might miss the

The grammar of prayer

Rosalind Hughes March 16, 2022

Resurrection is coming. It is important and sometimes difficult to hold on to that hope; yet resurrection that glosses over the reality of death, the finitude of death, that last piece of the solidarity of the Incarnation reins in the hope that might otherwise extend even to the rubble of a hospital, or the shores of a storm-churned beach, or the shut-off third rail of a subway system.

God remembers that we are dust

Rosalind Hughes March 4, 2022

God remembers that we are but dust
and the ashes of last year’s plans; …

A Song of Anna

Rosalind Hughes February 2, 2022

Simeon’s song, the Nunc Dimittis, crops up regularly in our liturgies, especially during Evening Prayer. I wonder what it would sound like, what it would feel like, if we had Anna’s song, too, to sing as our prayers rise like incense at the end of the day.

Because love is the miracle

Rosalind Hughes January 12, 2022

Love is what it takes
to make the other
miracles true:

The longest night

Rosalind Hughes December 22, 2021

… the twilight womb before the birth
of the Christ, all part
and particular to his Incarnation,
this nurturing dark that precedes
the light of the first new day.

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Author: Rosalind Hughes