Acts of Hope

"Annunciation," lithograph by Salvador Dali. For more art (and links to yet more art) on the theme of the Annunciation from differ...

A couple of fine friends of mine in Brazil are about to make a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, in Portuguese Nossa Senhor...

Forgive us. We've been having what some would vaguely but appropriately refer to as "writing issues" here at Acts of Hope, or ...

I just posted this on Facebook for a friend who is deep in a writing job and thought I'd share it here for the assembled multitudes. I...

With an exclamation mark, because the angel came to Mary with big news. Acts of Hope invites you to a little trip down memory lane: From two...

It's Laetare Sunday here in the Western liturgical churches and Mothering Sunday in the Church of England. My friend Rob (aka Padre Ro...

Attentive eleven-year-old to rector of All Saints, an hour or so after Jane's sermon , sometime during the Christmas Pageant rehearsal: ...

On blog break, but as promised, I am posting today's sermon. I am sojourning at All Saints three Sundays a month till May or June -- bac...

I am posting this on Sunday, though I have manipulated the date of posting back to Friday, when many of us honored the feast of La Virgen de...

This one is for friends of JohnieB. So, JohnieB's internet connection went away. Now it is back. However, the computer has gone kaput....

This rendition of a 19th-century Russian icon, Mother of God Similar to Fire , is by the Jesuit iconographer William Hart McNichols . It sho...

I have a copy of this icon by Robert Lentz on my desk. I know Trinity Stores is Robert Lentz's exclusive distributor (well, not exactly...

SWAMPED. Sigh. Yes, I am breathing. Also, Her Grace the Feline Bishop Extraordinaire had a little unexpected escapade yesterday, but it was...

Got the icon from here . Anonymous painter. Triptych with Virgin and Child Flanked by archangels, scenes from the life of Christ, apostles a...

I almost posted the same icon as last year because it is so beautiful. Instead, I am posting this one from the same online collection of Co...

As I mentioned earlier , St. Mary’s House (Episcopal), Greensboro has a Good Friday Stations of the Cross service at which 14 different peop...

So, I walked into Haghia Sophia (an earlier post tells me it was on December 13) and there, in the penumbra, was a cat. Right there in the...

Two years ago, in Lectionary Year B with different readings, I preached on the 4th Sunday of Advent at my congregation, St. Mary's House...

A church sort of day: morning worship with the local Anglicans (smells and bells!) and afternoon at the breathtaking church of St. Saviour ...