Holy Week and Easter Sunday are done. Put to rest. The music and responses have been sung(I’m a parish musician – could you tell?). The pressure is off. Or is it? Jack, our pastor, made a telling observation in his Easter homily. The Resurrection took place on the…

This really begins at the Easter Vigil. There are 3 readings that are required: The Gospel (of course), the Epistle (of course) and the Exodus reading about crossing the Red Sea. There might be up to 7 old testament readings, but the reading from Exodus is required….

Today, Palm Sunday, we finish Lent and walk into Holy Week. It’s been a Good Lent. A couple of weeks before Lent started, I was given a penance, if it can be called that, of “staying with the question.”  What kind of penance could that be? For me,…

After Friday’s post about the frustrations of being looked at as a one-trick pony, I had a powerful, wonderful, moving weekend. And, I found that I am able to move beyond whining about that one-trick. More than one team member (this was formation weekend for a…

How often it seems that we are relegated to the status of a “one trick pony.” Sometimes it’s a really great trick, for sure. But, there are times I’d like to learn another trick, or have someone else recognize more than one dimension of my…