by ccvadmin | May 21, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 246 (May 21, 2021) If the confession in “The Holy Eucharist: Rite Two” is anything, it is comprehensive: “Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left...
by ccvadmin | May 20, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 245 (May 20, 2021) One of the most beautiful songs by Fleetwood Mac is their 1975 wistful gem “Landslide”, written and sung by the incomparable Stevie Nicks while she was in Aspen, Colorado: “Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love? Can the child...
by ccvadmin | May 19, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 244 (May 19, 2021) One of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century is Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880), in which he describes the strained relationship between the dissolute father Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his...
by ccvadmin | May 18, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 243 (May 18, 2021) In 1927 legendary blues guitarist Blind Willie Johnson recorded the song, “In My Time of Dying”, which was later covered by Bob Dylan on his 1962 debut album (Dylan used the lipstick case of girlfriend Suze Rotolo as a guitar...
by ccvadmin | May 17, 2021 | News
Daily Word of Grace # 242 (May 17, 2021) A particularly powerful collect (brief, theologically loaded prayer) in The Book of Common Prayer is this one: “O God, who hast prepared for those who love thee such good things as pass man’s understanding: Pour into our hearts...
