by Janice MacLean | Apr 1, 2020 | Reflections, Visual Intercessions
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 118 Set Your Face Toward the Riot And on this path the gates are opening wide — Psalm 118 Read Psalm 118: 1,2 -19-29 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to you? What feelings, longings, hopes are evoked...
by Janice MacLean | Feb 12, 2020 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections
Inside Prayer “Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and went up the mountain to pray.” I was fortunate to visit the place where, by tradition, this story may have taken place, Mount Tabor in Galilee. We didn’t walk up the mountain. We drove. As we wound our...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 15, 2016 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections
Provocative, he is. Perhaps not a warrior on a horse; Yet even a donkey rider in a Passover crowd is bound to attract attention. And he did. They reach high snapping leafy branches from the trees. They bend low throwing cloaks on the path before him. Hosanna! Voices...
by Janice MacLean | Nov 9, 2015 | Poetry & Prayer, Reflections
Here is a poem written by my friend, Linda Foy. Linda is a Quaker and lives in Sackville, New Brunswick. As you read receive words that open your heart. It belonged All the wooden rails in the new fence were straight, save one. That one had the most impressive and...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 25, 2015 | Ordinary, Reflections
March 28, 1515 is the birthday of St. Teresa of Avila. Happy 500th birthday. When I was growing up, saints were statues in Roman Catholic churches. Even as I read about them and tried to understand their writing, they were slightly less than human. There was a great...
by Janice MacLean | Dec 31, 2014 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections
In one of the first Epiphany sermons I preached (more than 30 years ago!) I spoke of a pattern my Aunt had on her loom. It was called “summer-winter” weave. The finished cloth is reversible and has the same design on both sides, except where it is dark in colour on...
