God is Love

I've been meaning to post something about Holy Cross School and its students for a while... but that is not this post. 

This post wrote itself to a certain extent, coming out of the thoughts and prayers I have been struggling with in the past few months around the importance placed on works within the Christian faith. These are the (very early) beginnings of some sort of synthesis on my part.

First Sunday of Advent!

And crazily enough I was preaching again! It was undoubtedly an honor but I cannot deny a bit nerve-wracking. 

The lectionary can be found here: 

http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearC_RCL/Advent/CAdv1_RCL.html

A Prayer from St. Ignatius Loyola

Or as my Alex affectionately call him, St. Iggy.

It has been on my mind and in my prayers a lot of late so I thought it would be worth sharing. Though I generally prefer my prayers in entirely modern English, I think the 'thees' and 'thous' work here.

Sermon II

While we're at it, here's the little bit that I preached this past Sunday!

The lectionary can be found here:

http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearB_RCL/Pentecost/BProp25_RCL.html

Finally!

Having lost my original blog post just as it was near completion--suffice it to say I am not pleased with Blogger's saving mechanism--instead of attempting to recreate it I am going to write something completely different.

Perhaps this was God's way of getting me to reconsider things (or so I keep telling myself)

Sermon

Now that I have been in Grahamstown for a little less than I week it feels like a good time to share...a sermon! I promise I will sketch out some of my initial thoughts and feelings about my arrival and what I have seen thus far later this week but until then enjoy this little bit of preaching I did today.

(And yes, you read that correctly, I preached on my first Sunday here. It was not entirely my idea.) The lectionary can be found here:

http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearB_RCL/Pentecost/BProp21_RCL.html

The First

Hello to all of you out there in Internet-land!

This is my first ever blog post so excuse any peculiarities of format or design. Think of me as a new born calf still stumbling around, trying to figure out just what exactly these things called "legs" are.