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
Author: Rosalind Hughes
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.
Advent – a second coming
Rosalind Hughes
December 1, 2021
There is no cloud of glory can define, no gates of heaven can confine; there is no dogma, doggerel, or doctrine can describe, no earnest imitation reinscribe him.
Stewardship season …
Rosalind Hughes
November 10, 2021
We are stewards of more than our own welfare. From the beginning, our call is not to selfishness but to abundance; not to exploitation but to awe at the providence of our Creator.
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