Hallelujah!
If this video doesn’t make you smile and fill you with the simplest kind of joy, then your heart just might be two sizes too small. Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus done as you’ve never seen before. It...
View ArticleBoast Madly in God
This Sunday marks the end of the Epiphany season and a chance to relish the word “alleluia”, before it disappears from our prayers and hymns until Easter. As it happens alleluia is one of the most...
View ArticleIn the Land of Unlikeness
He is the Way. Follow Him through the Land of Unlikeness. You will see rare beasts and have unique experiences. He is the Truth. Seek him in the Kingdom of Anxiety. You will come to a great city that...
View ArticleI will see you again
The gospel passage for today is John 16:20-23: “Very truly, I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will have pain, but your pain will turn into joy. When a woman is in...
View Article“Fear Not”
Mary was urged to “fear not” when an angel told her of the child she would bear. The shepherds were told as well to “fear not” by angels who assured them that they brought good tidings of great joy,...
View ArticleHallelujah!
a request was made to repeat this Daily Cup from last year. Enjoy! If this video doesn’t make you smile and fill you with the simplest kind of joy, then your heart just might be two sizes too small....
View ArticleLet us joyful be?
One of Bach’s most beautiful chorale tunes, Christ lag in Todesbanden, frames the 9:15 and 11:15 services on Sunday, appearing in organ settings at the beginning and end of the services, and as a hymn...
View ArticleLet your light shine
Each week, parishioners from St. Alban’s lead a Sunday service at the Washington Home and Hospice. (Astonishingly, this has been going on for more than a hundred years!) One of the joys of this...
View ArticleFaith and Sight
Leaving St. Alban’s Parish yesterday I noticed a neighbor from a nearby building looking at me with an outstretched arm. Abby was excitedly circling his hand in a counter-clockwise motion, beckoning...
View ArticleThe Joy of Work
“Chopin Etudes”, a grieving widow said to me in a sudden burst of clarity. I didn’t expect her to think clearly about music for a funeral she hadn’t known a few days earlier she would be planning,...
View ArticleJoy to the world
Pure, exuberant joy. So many of us would like to reclaim that feeling for Christmas from our childhoods. Life gets more complicated though, expectations change, and joy is sometimes more elusive than...
View ArticleIt’s Magic, You Know?
On Saturday evening, January Eleventh, in the year of Our Lord 2014, Deacon Juan Pastor Reyes was ordained to the Sacred Order of Priests. The service was magical. Perhaps, as someone who is ordained...
View ArticleLooking for Joy
On this second day of Lent I want to remind you to look for joy. It’s easy to feel joyful during the festivities of Easter, but during these somber days of Lent? Those who were in church for an Ash...
View ArticleWade in the Tsunami
I’ve been away for five weeks, and many of you have kindly read what became “Daily Gallon of Good News” in my postings from South Africa and Istanbul. I thought you might now enjoy a “Daily Teaspoon...
View ArticleChristmas Eve
There’s a video going around YouTube this Christmas of Alison Krauss and Yo-Yo Ma recording an ancient song called the Wexford Carol, and right at the start, before they begin, Krauss says, “Maybe we...
View ArticleIllegitimi non carborundum
The title for my Daily Cup today is a mock-Latin phrase which has often been translated: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” In reading the Gospel passage assigned for today’s Office of Morning...
View ArticleWhat do you hope for?
Last weekend, our parish set up an enormous graffiti-board at a festival called Flowermart that we knew was going to draw a couple thousand people. (Jim Quigley blogged about the idea here:...
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