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Category Archives: prayer
Of Mother Mary
Sub tuum praesidium Beneath your compassion, We take refuge, O Mother of God: do not despise our petitions in time of trouble: but rescue us from dangers, only pure, only blessed one. (Oldest prayer to the Virgin Mary, dating from … Continue reading
Read Habbakuk lately?
In my continuing struggle to learn to use the new Benedictine Breviary as an aid to prayer, I found a tutorial to the Liturgy of the Hours here. However stupidly I stumble through the rite, I can offer perfect prayer when I offer to … Continue reading
the winter of our discontent….
There’s no way, in my present state of mind, I can continue the planned essays on prayer. I confess I am royally screwed. They were to be loftier than I can manage at the moment. I started using … Continue reading
Learning to pray without ceasing
Learning to pray. Okay, we’ll break it into two parts: 1. The Ocean: listening 2. The Shore: putting into words, symbols The Ocean Vast expanse of oceans cover much of the globe. They remain a mystery to us, even … Continue reading
The Wise Still Seek Him
In honor of the Epiphany, I offer my first sermon in print, Proclaim Oct 1977 (Baptist Sunday School Board). It’s a dramatic monologue in iambic pentameter (I was young.) The premise is that one of the Wise who followed the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alton McEachern, dramatic monologue, Magi, sermon, Wise Men
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Unanswered prayer
I love small group Bible study. Tonight was one reason why. It’d been several weeks since most of us were together. The evening began with a spontaneous checkup on each other. I was amazed at the level of care the … Continue reading
A Cannibal’s Hope
Recently I had my big toenails removed, so I started the day daubing hydrogen peroxide on the wounds. Then, letting my toes air out, I brewed some coffee. I experimented, for 15 seconds on High nuking a square of Dove dark … Continue reading
oh my son, my son, little lamb, little one!
for Julian King, age 7 oh my little lamb, little one, now I hold you in my arms. I made you for your laugh, your running round energy. I made you someday to be a Father, a Teacher, a … Continue reading
The change we need most
Usually I turn the TV off during the day; lately, however, the presidential race has snagged my attention. The bottom line we all forget is that God chooses our President, and God’s reasons are usually beyond our ken. Once a … Continue reading
Wanta see $1.2 Trillion vanish? Wanta see it again?
Yesterday on Wall Street it snowed sell orders. I don’t usually watch the news, but I watched hour after hour, trying to figure out what’s going on. My grasp of economics is minimal (maybe better than Palin’s). I think … Continue reading