journeys
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Chapel Veil
I’m not what you’d consider “outgoing.” I don’t even like praying out loud, preferring silent prayer by myself. (Please, never ask me to say the holiday dinner blessing.) But for a while, I’ve felt drawn to the tradition of wearing a veil. The mantilla, or chapel veil, was a requirement of women pre-Vatican II. They’re… Continue reading
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A Change of Plans
Originally posted at Behold on 4.8.23 “very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?” —Mark 16: 2–3 I got married at thirty-eight. For a… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6