I love the rhythm of these two readings. I love the trial and error. Put the spit on this guy’s eyes … oops nearly … try again. Send out one bird … no luck … send out another. There’s a simple pragmatism there that might make you think both Noah and Jesus were Americans before …
Yearly Archives: 2001
Sunday Week 5 Year C
Take a dog … this is a recipe … take a dog. Shrink it down in your imagination to … yeah big. Shorten the legs a little. Make the head a bit bigger, the ears bigger still—nice and floppy—and the eyes: grow them large and liquid. Let the coat be fluffy, and the tail short …
Epiphany Sunday
“What are you preaching about tomorrow?” someone asked me last night. “Doors and camels,” I said, off the top of my head, “doors and camels and something else.” That door in St. Peter’s! That door has been bothering me for days. The Holy Door was opened last Christmas to inaugurate the Holy Year of Jubilee. …