Image: Wise Women Also Came © Jan Richardson In some parts of the world, Epiphany (January 6, which brings the Christmas season to a close) is celebrated as Women’s Christmas. Originating in Ireland, where it is known as Nollaig na mBan, Women’s Christmas began as a day when the women, who often carried the domestic […]
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Women’s Christmas: The Shimmering Hours
Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
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The Magdalene’s Blessing
Sunday, July 21st, 2013
Image: The Blessing Cups: Jesus and Mary Magdalene at Tea © Jan L. Richardson Blessings to you on this eve of the Feast of Mary Magdalene! Earlier this year, at the Women’s Convocation in Bellevue, Washington—a marvelous gathering whose speakers included Sr. Helen Prejean and Clarissa Pinkola Estés—I had the opportunity to speak on the […]
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Women’s Christmas: The Map You Make Yourself
Friday, January 4th, 2013
Wise Women Also Came © Jan L. Richardson In some parts of the world, Epiphany (January 6, which brings the Christmas season to a close) is celebrated as Women’s Christmas. Originating in Ireland, where it is known as Nollaig na mBan, Women’s Christmas began as a day when the women, who often carried the domestic […]
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Provision and Plenitude: Feast of Saint Brigid
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Brigid © Jan L. Richardson This week offers us plenty of cause for celebration, with two feast days in store. February 1 is the Feast of Saint Brigid, the beloved Celtic saint whose leadership helped shape the early church in Ireland. Famous for her hospitality (“Every guest is Christ,” Brigid said), Brigid was a worker […]
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Celebrating Women’s Christmas
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Wise Women Also Came © Jan L. Richardson In some parts of the world, Epiphany (January 6, which brings the Christmas season to a close) is celebrated as “Women’s Christmas.” Originating in Ireland, where it is known as Nollaig na mBan, Women’s Christmas began as a day when the women, who often carried the domestic […]
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A Spiral-Shaped Sanctuary
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Grünewald Guild Labyrinth This is the penultimate night of my two-week sojourn at the Grünewald Guild, a wondrous retreat center in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State where I teach every summer. Devoted to exploring and celebrating the connections between art and faith, the Guild is something of a second home for me—a place where […]
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Mother’s Day: Blessing the Mothers
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
With Mom at Portage Glacier, Alaska, 1994 Right after my parents married—Mom was nineteen, Dad was twenty-two—they moved to Alaska, where Dad was newly stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage. They would spend almost three years there, nearly a continent away from Florida, where they had both grown up and where their families […]
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Golden, Sparkling Flame: Feast of St. Brigid
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Brigid © Jan L. Richardson A blessed Brigid’s Day to you! February 1 is one of my favorite days on the calendar: the Feast of St. Brigid of Kildare, the beloved Irish saint. Born in the middle of the 5th century, Brigid became a powerful leader of the early church in Ireland. She established a […]
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