by Sybil Macbeth | Mar 15, 2021 | Praying in Color
Here are three sets of templates for Holy Week. They are not intended as just “coloring” pages (unless that’s how you want to use them) but as a format for corralling your thoughts, prayers, and reflections about the days of Holy Week. The first set...
by Sybil Macbeth | Apr 9, 2020 | Praying in Color
It was on Holy Thursday and all in the morning They plaited a crown of thorns for our Heavenly King And was not this a woeful thing And sweet Jesus we’ll call him by name. These words are from a traditional English carol called And All in the Morning. (If you...
by Sybil Macbeth | Apr 2, 2015 | Praying in Color
The Maundy Thursday service with communion and footwashing is one of my favorite worship experiences of the liturgical year. As parishioners walk down the aisle to the front of the church with all sorts and conditions of bare feet, it feels like a time of shared...
by Sybil Macbeth | Mar 28, 2013 | Praying in Color
Passover Poem Pass through the Exit gates of Eden Pass over the plagues of death Pass under the Red Sea waves Pass by in a pillar of cloud Pass up the offerings of Baal Pass down the Covenant of God Pass into the Promised Land Pass out the loaves and fishes Pass...
by Sybil Macbeth | Apr 2, 2010 | Praying in Color
Last night at church, a pair of women washed my feet. I washed a few sets of feet as well. Tittering and giggling were plentiful from the people hunkered at the basins of water. I heard multiple apologies like, “I did just take a shower before I came.”...
