build us back

I share this music video with you as a prayer for Haiti. 

I found it over on a Haiti blog I've been following: http://thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com/2010/09/build-us-back.html
As a matter of fact, there are a few things from that blog I would like to share with you at some point; meanwhile, take a look yourself. 

And pray.  Continue to pray for Haiti.  Continue to talk. Don't forget, and don't let your friends forget, either.   For so many people, this is old news.  It's over.  Life has moved on.  Well, if we in the US have not finished rebuilding after 9/11 or Katrina, I'm not sure how it is we think Haiti should have picked up and moved on after far more extensive losses when life was already difficult.   So pray.  Listen to the music and pray, or pray in whatever way you find to do so.  Just don't let it go.

Petits Chanteurs on tour

The Petits Chanteurs and a chamber ensemble from Haiti, children from Holy Trinity Music School, are on tour right now: thirty days, forty concerts. Sounds exhausting. These are children with a purpose, however. I hope they'll be very successful raising money to rebuild the school, and I'll try to find and post their tour schedule.

Holy Trinity Music School is part of the larger Episcopal diocesan complex that housed the cathedral, our convent, and Holy Trinity preschool, primary and middle school, trade school, and music school. Our Sisters have worked there since 1927, and I believe Sr. Anne Marie started the music school. I can't tell you how many photos of her I saw on various Haitian music school Facebook pages following the earthquake.  I know Sr. Carolyn directed the Petits Chanteurs for a couple of years before joining the community.

I've been meaning to obtain some of the photos the Sisters brought with them when they came from Port-au-Prince to Boston for our community's annual Chapter last month. There were quite a number of Holy Trinity (the whole complex, or what little is left of it, anyway - they have constructed plywood pavilions, and worship and learning go one). I will post some when I have a bit more time. Meanwhile, I commend to you this short article and ask your prayers for these children and their adult companions as they travel.

Haiti musicians on tour to raise money for school | Richmond Times-Dispatch

(photo below via the article above)

Petits Chanteurs on tour in the US from Holy Trinity Music School, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

sartorial and theological challenge

Words fail me...

PacMan stole - oh my...

Yet I have to wonder
--whether or not Ms. Pacman is eligible for ordination, or only Pacman himself 
--if I should be reflecting theologically on the maze of life, the path of life, on Jesus as the Way through Pacman's Maze
--whether the textile artist that created this prayed through its creation and, if so, what that prayer was like
--if I should be admitting that I actually remember playing Pacman in a video arcade, though I couldn't remember the game itself to save my life.

So, dear friends, a challenge:
If you were going to design a stole with a game as the theme (video, board, or other)*, what would you choose and why?  Chutes and Ladders, perhaps (with angels ascending and descending)?
Extra points for titles and theological reflection.

*No need to explain why you would ever want to do such a thing - although since I can't really imagine why the stole above was created, perhaps there should be points for that, too!

Found at http://badvestments.blogspot.com/2010/08/back-to-future.html via Facebook.

Sicut servus desidera

As the deer longs for the water-brooks,

     so longs my soul for you, O God.

          - Psalm 42:1

                        (Palestrina: Sicut cervus desidera)

Sharing some end-of-the-evening peace with you. Blessings to all.

wrapped in God's presence

"God is wholly in every place, included in no place; not bound with cords except those of love; not divided into parts, not changeable into several shapes; filling heaven and earth with His present power, and with His never absent nature: so St. Augustine expresses this article. So that we may imagine God to be as the air and the sea, and we all enclosed in His circle, wrapped up in the lap of His infinite nature; or as infants in the wombs of their pregnant mothers: and we can no more be removed from the presence of God than from our own being."


--Jeremy Taylor, classical Anglican theologian, preacher, and pastor. Holy Living (1650).

From Jeremy Taylor: Selected Works. Edited by Thomas K, Carroll. The Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press,1990.

feeling catty?

By Rossini's cat, I do believe.

Hail, Holy Queen

In honor of the Feast of St. Mary the Virgin.

Enjoy!