1. The year was 1164. We remember Thomas Beckett. The reading is T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral."
  2. The year was 1517. We remember Michelangelo's magnum opus, the Sistine Chapel. The reading is from Richard Crashaw, "Christ's Victory."
  3. Just like we end up walking in circles when lost with no navigation instruments, so does humankind outside of Christ. Nothing has changed since the Reformation. People still suck and God still loves.
  4. The year was 1916. We remember Charles Taze Russell. The reading is from Anna Kamienska, “Lack of Faith.”
  5. The year was 1680. We remember the mystic, adventurer, and self-proclaimed prophet, Antoinette Bourignon. The reading is from Kate Bowler, "Everything Happens for A Reason, and Other Lies I've Loved."
  6. Sometimes the guilt in us manifests itself in different ways. Whether it's a weight or sadness, anger or venting, blame or defensiveness, we see it in ourselves and we see it in our relationships.
  7. The year was 370. We remember the story of St. Regulus' fantastic escape with the relics of St. Andrew. The reading is from Anne Brontë, "The Penitent."
  8. This prayer expresses the feeling of separation and the resulting distress from feeling like we are abandoned.
  9. This is a prayer which orients us in the morning to offer our lives to God with trust and thanksgiving.
  10. Psalm 4 reminds us that our daily lives are lived in a battlefield.