Warning – Muslim Approaching Christmas
When a party of Christians visited Prophet Muhammad (saw), in Madinah, he invited them, while they stayed, to sleep and say their prayers in the masjid. Sometime before, he had come to Madinah with the…
Tag: Advent & Christmas
The Lantern and the Lamb
The lantern wound its way up the hill, three figures hunched around its meagre light. One of the shepherds held something swaddled tight in his fleece jacket, along with the warm stones they’d brought from…
Christmas 1836: A Sweeney Todd Story
Five years after he is taken, what is Christmas like for Benjamin Barker and his loved ones? He’d long ago given up fighting. Solitary confinement was its own hellhole. It taught him his lesson, and…
Sometimes it Snows in Bethlehem
Author’s Note: The story below is true. Bless you all on this Christmas season and may you each receive a Christmas Miracle. And may we contemplate on that cold starry night the Blessed Mother…
We Are Saved by the Incarnation: The Celtic Teaching of Eriugena
There is an ancient Celtic belief, taught to us by Eriugena, that salvation happened primarily through the incarnation rather than the crucifixion. It was the bringing together of heaven and earth, spirit and matter, creator…
The Eve Before the Feast
This poem was inspired by watching “Carols from Kings”, conducted without a congregation, during lockdown. It made me think about how strange it felt to see these acts of worship taking place in empty buildings.The…
Eternity Begun: A Meditation on St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
The dead can be our friends and mentors, perhaps even more fundamentally and intimately than those we live and work with every day. We have many invisible brothers and sisters who watch us serenely and…
Begotten Seed: A Reflection between Christmas and Lent
Christmas ebbs out and, and Lent ebbs in - so flows the cycle of the liturgical life of the Church. This particular change invigorates me the most, because it unfolds a deeper mystery yet, it…
Christmas Tea: An Alice in Wonderland Story
Alice hurried through the grimy snow that muddied the sidewalk, towards her family’s London townhouse, with a big bag of party favors under her arm. She was anxious to get the new gifts wrapped and…