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Pandemic Prayers for Proper 25

A blind beggar started to shout and they silenced him. They ordered him to be quiet. I don’t know why that is jumping out at me right now. Is it that I have been silenced so many times as a woman? Or is it that I haven’t felt that I have spoken enough? I haven’tContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for Proper 25”

Pandemic Prayers for Proper 24

I remember the last time this passage from Job popped up in the Revised Common Lectionary. I remember thinking that the whirlwind was how I felt then. I wish I didn’t still feel that now. Still, I went looking for that prayer. You can find the original here paired with another bit from the GospelContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for Proper 24”

Pandemic Prayers for Another World Communion Sunday

The world doesn’t feel like it did last year when I offered pandemic prayers for what I had thought would be the one and only pandemic World Communion Sunday in my lifetime. It feels different now. This is the song that has been at the center of my prayers with each and every headline. TheContinue reading “Pandemic Prayers for Another World Communion Sunday”