Last time I checked, I still had a pulse. Over the last four days, there were times I wasn’t sure that would be the case. But at this late hour on Easter night, I can finally say, with certainty: I survived by first Triduum as a deacon. Here’s what happened: Wednesday I started to develop…

Here’s something a lot of us can relate to: being brand new on the job and approaching your first big challenge. In this case, the job is being newly ordained — and the challenge is a little something called Easter. From the Baltimore Sun: With Sunday rapidly approaching, the Rev. Mervin McKenney admitted to being…

Whether you realize it or not, this evening we are present at creation. First, there was the creation of the world – signified by the fire that burned at the entry to our church, fire that was then blessed and spread into hundreds of pinpoints of light throughout this church. We heard the unforgettable story…

Sixty years ago, the psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote a best-selling book about his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz. “Man’s Search for Meaning,” is considered to be a classic about the worst nightmare of the last century. Frankl describes how men, women and children coped with the horrors of the camp – how they were…

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