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This thing has feathers. (pinned post)
Tags: UncategorizedYeah, yeah, I misquoted Dickinson. (She wrote, “Hope is the thing with feathers,” not “Hope’s the thing…” But this is a meme I made a while back that isn’t really a meme because it’s not meming, but it does seem, unfortunately, to be evergreen: Feel free to use it if you like, though.
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Doing Jesus’ works
The Fifth Sunday of Easter—May 3, 2026 I find it weirdly fitting that the feast of St. Stephen falls the day after Christmas, as if to remind us that the Incarnation of Christ has implications. We are now on the other end of Jesus’ earthly life, and his sojourn to the Cross, through the grave,…
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When we can’t tell Christ from Hermes
The Fourth Sunday of Easter—April 26, 2026 In today’s epistle, someone writing as St. Peter reminds Christians who are suffering for their faith that Christ also suffered unjustly, entrusting himself to God. In doing so, he set a model for us. While early Christians were sometimes persecuted, it was far from a constant experience. Decades…
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Learning a new way to see
The Third Sunday of Easter—April 19, 2026 In his 1991 book of essays, AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History, Jerry Herron writes about a paradox that was true several decades before and after his book came out: Detroit, in national media, was portrayed both as an empty space and as a city “overfilled with…
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Alive, with scars to prove it
The Second Sunday of Easter, Year A—April 11, 2026 The Second Sunday of Easter is sometimes called “Lowsunday” or “Low Sunday,” referring to attendance in church. Not only the twice-a-year attendees, but even the most faithful congregants seem to be tapped out from the prior week or six. Even more unfortunate is the fact we…
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The Great Triduum
Years A, B, and C Since the readings are the same every year, I’m not going to address them directly in this post. Next year, or the year after, I will. Maundy Thursday—April 2, 2026Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-141 Corinthians 11:23-26John 13:1-17, 31b-35Psalm 116:1, 10-17 For the Triduum, I can’t think of a better image than…
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