Lighting My Darkness

November 17, 2016 / Denise Marie Siino / Faith, Musings

The last couple of mornings have been in the 30s so I’ve been building a fire in the wood stove instead of cranking up the heater. There’s something very cheery about a cozy fire heating my home as dawn creeps through the windows, plus it keeps my PG&E bill down. Out of necessity, I’m getting […]

Bread of Presence, Bread of Life—Part 2

May 26, 2015 / Denise Marie Siino / Faith, Life

I have never painted myself into a corner, but I have unwittingly mopped myself into one. When that happens, you have to very carefully pick your way across the wet floor and hope you don’t track footprints. That’s the way I feel about my last blog post, knowing that I would have to gingerly make […]

Standing for Christ

February 23, 2015 / Denise Marie Siino / Faith, Jesus Christ, Lent, Life, Musings, Worship

I listened with great sadness to last week’s news about the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS in Libya. While I have not tracked all of the “public” murders ISIS has performed in the past, it seems that – besides punishment for unpaid ransoms – they often target journalists and unsuspecting aid workers, and […]

O our Father, you who reside in the heavens, not as one limited, but because of the greater love you have for those first effects there on high:

Praised be your name and your power by every creature, given that it is fitting to render thanks for your sweet breath.

May the peace of your kingdom come to us, for if it doesn’t come toward us, we are impotent by ourselves, even if we try with all of the strength of our intellect.

And just as angels render their own desires up to you as sacrifice, singing ‘Hosanna,’ so too may human beings do the same with theirs.

Give to us today the daily manna, without which he who grows weary in going forward goes backward through this dry desert.

And as we take that evil we have suffered and pardon it, to every man you, too, pardon with clemency, and you do not consider whether we have merit.

This, our virtue that is overcome so easily,
do not put it to the test by the ancient adversary, but deliver us from him who goads it [to evil].

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