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“Your life has lived in me”

Catherine Smith2020-04-21T09:56:21-03:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: blue ribbons, candles, care, gestures, grief, holy, love, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia tragedy, together|

Last night many lit candles to join their hearts around those grieving after the terrible massacre in Nova Scotia.  Hearts and ribbons, flowers, and people kneeling [...]

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A Touching Place

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:00:39-04:00Categories: Lent, Prayers, Uncategorized|Tags: Foot-washing, Ignatian Retreat, Loneliness, love, Love one another, Maundy Thursday, Sorrow|

On this nightwe know you as loving hostand beloved guest.On this night we follow you to the edge of your sorrow,a sorrow that holds all our [...]

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“One Small Step in the Direction of Love”

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:09-04:00Categories: Reflections|Tags: Discernment, identity, love, Spiral Time|

  As I come to the conclusion of a year in which I chose to let go of those things by which I might most [...]

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Ash Wednesday Worship

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:30-04:00Categories: Worship Services|Tags: Ash Wednesday, love, Shrove Tuesday, Worship|

  Ash Wednesday    [This is a quiet, spare worship. For those who are moving from a Mardi Gras gathering into the quiet of this worship [...]

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This is not Trump’s day

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:30-04:00Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Inauguration, justice, love, reality, United States|

Photo from Pixabay Images On this seemingly surreal but also real day when Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated as  President of the United [...]

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In the deepening darkness

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:57-04:00Categories: Words|Tags: death, Good Friday, Hope, love|

This morning we got up went about our morning routines came out into the drizzle and sat in a gentle, ordinary space ~ We bear witness [...]

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