O God, whose Spirit guides us into all truth and makes us free: Strengthen and sustain us as you did your servant Harriet Ross Tubman. Give us vision and courage to stand against oppression and injustice and all that works against the glorious liberty to which you call all your children. Amen.
Happy Birthday, fellow Pisces: Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio \ Bad Bunny (born March 10, 1994) ♓️ 🐠 ❤️
Onward 📚
Ash Wednesday
Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019)!
Shrove Tuesday shenanigans with Miss Rustina!
Onward 📚
“Had ye known how to suffer, ye would know how to suffer no more.
Learn how to suffer, and ye shall overcome.
Behold in me a couch: rest on me!“
— The Hymn of Jesus, H. 140, Op. 37 by Gustav Holst
Happy Birthday, Sade (born 16 January 1959)
Remembering with thanksgiving my own Baptism on this Feast of The Baptism of our Lord.
Saint Anthony‘s face says it all.
Artwork: The Torment of Saint Anthony by Michelangelo (c. 1487–88)
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20 + C + M + B + 26 | EPIPHANY
Artwork: Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
“when you enter places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think, so your thoughts, your solutions, your directions, your choices about who lives and who doesn’t, about who flourishes and who doesn’t will be worth the very sacred life you have chosen to live.” — Toni Morrison
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 2025
Jean Françaix: Seven Dances after the Ballet “Les malheurs de Sophie”
Camille Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Eunice Kim, violin
Onward 📚
Primary Trust by Eboni Booth at the Guthrie Theater
In memoriam: Frédéric Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) ♓️