by Warren Howell | Apr 21, 2021 | Music & Words, Prayers, Worship Resources
THE FOURTH SUNDAY of the Easter season every year features the 23rd Psalm prominently and is known as Good Shepherd Sunday. Thomas Merton prayed “You have a wild and crazy sheep in love with thorns and brambles…You have found me. All I have to do is stay...
by Warren Howell | Apr 7, 2021 | Prayers, Reflections
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:28) ONE OF THE READINGS in many churches this coming Sunday is from John’s Gospel, wherein the surprising and risen Jesus shows up to the disciples in a pair of different instances a week apart. In both...
by Warren Howell | Mar 31, 2021 | Reflections
Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. (John 13:1) NIGHTTIME DURING Holy Week becomes the dark before the dawn. The story of Jesus’ last week and final sacrifice chart a descent into the shadier corners of the human heart. On the...
by Warren Howell | Mar 23, 2021 | Worship Resources
The Entry into Jerusalem, detail; Unknown; Ottonian, c.1030. (see below). Worship resources for Holy Week and Easter 2021 (appropriate for the scriptures in Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary). Choral music selections are rated according to difficulty: E = Easy,...
by Warren Howell | Mar 20, 2021 | Prayers, Reflections
The sun is love. The lover, a speck circling the sun. A spring wind moves to dance any branch that isn’t dead. — Rumi, The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, tr. * * * WELCOME, SPRING. You are a reminder of order containing chaos. Structure allowing...
