The Viridescent Circle

Epiphany: A Walk in the Frost Filled Forest

This is my last letter.  It is all about glory, which I think is often what brings us to the crossroads of time and eternity. These crossroads were the intended place from which these letters were to be written.  I am so grateful that you have listened while I looked both ways and tried to describe what I saw.

Advent One: Memento Mori

There is a tradition that in Advent preachers are to take as their subject matter the Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell. The landscape of November makes good fodder for the first week's topic, death.  How does confronting death prepare the soul for the feast of the Incarnation?

Michaelmas

This missive is passionate and full of concern. It speaks with strain about problems in the world and in the church. It speaks of the transcendence of God and the dancing ministrations of the orders of heavenly hosts who aide us and lead us to cry, "Holy".

The Feast of the Transfiguration: Porosity and Faith

The feast of the Transfiguration comes as summer is just getting old. There is a gift that permeates everything even though the grass withers and the flower fades. This letter is about how faith comes to be.

Eastertide: Eyes to see the Resurrection

Seeing clearly in the season of the long sun. Believing in the resurrection while there is tragedy and tyranny in our world.