When I was a baby, my grandmother started an add-a-pearl necklace for me. Each year she’d gift me with a tiny new pearl and have the chain restrung. Somehow, I ended up with more pearls than years our lives overlapped. Last weekend I wore my necklace as my brother, surrounded by a handful of family,… Read More
worship words for All Saints Day 2020
If you’ve struggled to find liturgical language adequate to this moment (pandemic, political crises, civil unrest, widely publicised injustices, and so much more), you’re not alone. By this point in 2020, with a seemingly endless journey ahead too, many of us are a little low on creativity. Here we have some contributions from our RevGals… Read More
Friday Prayer
For all the saints, who from their labors rest, The saints gone too soon before the fullness of their grace was truly known by human minds. The saints who were not lauded, but whose faithfulness bore generations of fruit. The saints whose witness spoke truth to power and brought forth new creations. The saints who… Read More
Wednesday Prayer
Today, the saints crowd around us, God, and we are grateful; for friends who made us laugh so hard it hurt, parents with the lessons it took us so long to learn, siblings, holding our shared past, mentors, with their particular wisdom. We see the people who come to mind every day, and the ones… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Saints and Candidates Edition
After over 20 weeks of green paraments, we finally get a break from Ordinary Time! Some of us (including the Pope!) already took a break for red last week… but for many of us, this is the first toe in the water of the months-deep liturgical season pool. Welcome to All Saints’ Day, to white… Read More
Friday Festival: Singing, Praying, Pondering
There are a lot of moving parts in the lives of RevGals this week. All Saints Day was officially earlier this week, but for most will be celebrated in worship this coming Sunday. Those in the United States have a polarized and polarizing election campaign, with all its negativity swirling in the air. For many,… Read More
All Saints Sunday Prayer
We give thanks, O God Most Holy, for the feet that walked this journey before us, for the saints and sinners who lived & loved under the shadow of your wings. We give thanks, O God Most Holy, for those who dared to travel the road together as lovers & strangers, as friends & disciples, for as long as they… Read More
