Tag: Newtown Shooting
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For Whom the Bells Toll — 26, 27, or 28?
I was glad yesterday morning when the bells rang 28 times at Marquand Chapel on Sterling Divinity Quad, where I work. Granted, there was a pause after the first 26 times, but then the bells did ring two more times. Why did it matter?
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Hymn of the Day for Advent 3C
I find the text surprisingly appropriate in the light of this past week’s events in Newtown.
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A profoundly blue Christmas
Little did I know when I posted something about “blue Christmas”-liturgies here recently that people not far from where I live would be forced to confront such a profoundly horrific blue Christmas indeed. I write as a mother with a son in the Connecticut school-system. My heart missed a beat yesterday.