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In advance of a larger site redesign, the Translating the Tradition podcast (mostly Fr. Justin’s homilies) has been moved to its own Substack.

It is also worth noting that Fr. Lawrence Farley’s homilies can be found on his site, at nootherfoundation.ca/sermons, and that both links have been added to the main menu, under Homilies.

In what or in whom do we trust?
Not the government, though we pray for the king;
Nor words of men, though we mine them for truth;
Nor in money, though we use it for alms;
Nor in health and strength, though we use it to help;
Nor even in friends’ faithfulness, though it comforts and sharpens at need.
We trust in the King of Kings,
the Word of Truth,
who made Himself poor that we might be rich,
and who gave up His health and strength that we, by entering into His loving death, might rise with Him into His unending, abundant life,
that we might be His friends, friends of God and of the friends of God, and
“If God be for us, who can be against us?”
In Him do we trust, in Truth.
Christ is risen!

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My poetry professor, Dr. Lee M. Johnson, had a tradition of writing Christmas poems. The following one struck me as particularly appropriate to share right now, as we find ourselves between Nativity and Theophany – or, in the Western Christian tradition, between Christmas and Epiphany – especially in light of my Christmas homily:

The magi and the shepherds who were there
Beheld a wonder that we cannot share;
Absent, as usual, will we never see
A revelation or epiphany?
When will it be our turn in Bethlehem?
Or is it all that wise to envy them?
They heard some angels sing and saw a light
And know of something special in that night,
But further into time they could not go;
They did not know what their descendants know:
That light is Light, that night is Night, that love
Is Love restored to Life by God above;
They knew of birth; we know of death, and more;
What happens after saves what goes before:
The gift of Christmas is a pledge of peace;
The gift of Easter shows it does not cease.