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Tag Archives: Lent – 2020
Guest Post — Calling All Contemplatives: Mystics, Ministers, Intercessors, and Dreamers! Love in the time of Covid-19, Elaine Gaetani
Calling All Contemplatives: Mystics, Ministers, Intercessors, and Dreamers! Love in the time of Covid-19 Rev. Elaine S. Gaetani Elaine Gaetani has shared this extraordinary call to us all in the midst of this time. Elaine is a UCC Pastor, Spiritual … Continue reading
A Prayer for Holy Saturday
So, God, I was taking a selfie — OK several selfies — in the mask a friend made for me to post as her thank-you, and I realized that I look completely different when I am smiling behind the mask … Continue reading
Guest Post — Elaine S. Gaitani — Beware the Illusion
Holy Week & Covid -19 — Beware The Illusion! Rev. Elaine S. Gaetani Do not look for me in refrigerated trucks, I am not there, I did not die. Do not throw open the metallic back doors as you would … Continue reading
A Prayer for Good Friday in the Lent of Coronavirus
God, each of us knows a modern-day Simon of Cyrene who carries this year’s cross in direct service to those who are ill, and each of us tries to sit pieta, that we call shelter-in-place, holding on fragile knees the … Continue reading
Maundy Thursday, for our sense of betrayal
God, we feel part of the betrayal — Judas-kiss, Pilate-dripping hands, snoozy disciples, Barabbas home-free pass, Peter-in-the-courtyard, dice-playing guards — because all of us who are not sick are wondering whether we are asymptomatic or carriers — and checked the … Continue reading
Zoom Wedding
(content warning: this is a little light-hearted and you may not want that now) God, that story about ten wedding attendants, (told probably a day before the arrest) where half of the attendants ran out of oil and the sad … Continue reading
Guest Post — R. Matthew Stevens
I have been gifted with some remarkable guest content for my blog this strange Lent when so many people are looking for work online. I am posting these guest posts mid-morning each day and continue to post my series of … Continue reading
Prayer for those in or anticipating financial insecurity
God, I feel it is so wrong to be worried about my own or my family’s financial well-being. when I should focus on praying for those who are sick and those who are “the helpers.” Forgive me, forgive us for … Continue reading
Prayer for Chaplains
God, we give thanks for chaplains who carry a house of prayer around inside of them — when the whole world has been tipped upside down. We give thanks for all the ordinary times, whether it is sorting out dietary … Continue reading
Palm Sunday in the season of coronavirus
God, I am wearing the new underwear and nobody can see it, even on Zoom, actually, even if we were in the sanctuary. I feel like waving myself with all my heart, even alone in my home, not just de-nuding … Continue reading
Gifts in Open Hands 