Amy Secrist

Tag: Ordinary Time

  • Advent Doesn’t Matter.

    Advent Doesn’t Matter.

    Yes, I admit it! I could give this post a million different titles, and I choose this one. I’m hoping somebody somewhere wants to read the next line: Unless it does. Truly Advent doesn’t matter. And truly it does. It depends. It’s the circumstances and the details of our lives that decide it. I’ve written…

  • Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (I hear the cardinal)

    I hear the cardinal sound his call, his metallic “chip, chip, chip!” I wonder whom he is warning off, or what he is challenging. I peer up at the nest, notice the shredded, grimy bits of plastic. I think about how nothing is perfect, yet we are challenged to reach perfection. I touch the branch,…