Advent 2024 – Saints of the Season – Joseph the Silent Saint

Don’t you just love the weekly radio show, “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” the NPR news quiz?  One holiday season a few years ago, Peter Sagal, the host, posed this question to panelist Tom Bodett, “People are always looking at predictors for kids to see how they’re going to fare later in life. Well, one new study out of the U.K. shows that a surprisingly reliable predictor is what your child did – what role they had—in what common childhood activity?”

Saints of the Season

Advent 3 – Saint Lucia

A reflection by Executive Director Rev. Jane Field

Putting Some Meat on the Bones of God’s Air Raid Siren

Saints of the Season – John the Baptist

Saints of the Season

Advent has begun again—that season of expectation when we anticipate the arrival of “God-with-skin-on,” the Christ child lying in a manger, asleep on the hay.  Everything is about the big countdown—in church, we count the weeks: 1st week of Advent, 2nd

MCC’s Spring 2024 Newsletter

MCC’s Spring 2024 Newsletter

Whether you read the print edition that arrives in your mailbox, or the digital version available through the link, you’ll see that we let our work speak for itself through our newsletter. 

You can’t get to Easter without walking through a graveyard

Though some say that Christians treat death as if it were just a simple freeing of the soul from the prison of the body, a quick transition to blissful immortality, because they believe Easter gives them some kind of cosmic “get out of jail free” card that spares true believers from the sting of death, nothing could be further from the truth. 

Lent: a season for compass adjustment

I wonder: without checking your smartphone, can you point toward the north right now?  I’ll confess, I couldn’t do it without using my phone or the compass built into my car.

SOMETIMES JUST A MINUTE LIKE THIS

WILL REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Third Week of Lent 2024

BURYING ALLELUIA

A Lenten Spiritual Practice
We get a lot of other things about Lent from the church of the Middle Ages, too. One of the more interesting traditions is the “depositio” of alleluias, the discontinuing or refraining from use of the word “Alleluia” in worship and song during the 40 days of Lent. You’ve heard of “giving up something for Lent.” Well, the church gives up its Alleluias for Lent.
Read more about this special ritual…