by Sybil Macbeth | Feb 12, 2015 | Praying in Color
I love using a calendar template for Lent because it gives me a one-day-at-a-time, concrete, manageable way to have a daily practice for the 40 (or 46) days before Easter. If you like more space than a piece of 8 1/2″ x11″ paper affords, go to a copy store...
by Sybil Macbeth | Feb 2, 2015 | Praying in Color
It’s official; by almost all Christian calendars and denominations, Christmas and Epiphany are over. For many people, both celebrations have been over for weeks. For a few stragglers and holders-on like me, today marks the end. This is the day I put away the...
by Sybil Macbeth | Jan 18, 2015 | Praying in Color
If I were at home in Memphis, Tennessee, my Christmas tree would have morphed into an Epiphany bush on January 6. Stars and lights twinkling on the tree in the middle of my living room brighten up the long darkness of the winter nights and remind me of the wacky...
by Sybil Macbeth | Jan 6, 2015 | Praying in Color
Brightest and best of the stars of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our Infant Redeemer is laid.* Epiphany: the twelfth day after Christmas, the arrival of the Magi at the manger, the...
by Sybil Macbeth | Jan 5, 2015 | Praying in Color
Today is the last day of Christmas and it seems there should be some appropriate greeting or words of benediction for this day. I’m trying some greetings on: “Godspeed Christmas” or “Merry Twelfth Night” or “Spread the Light of...
