Scripture Text: Deuteronomy 16:1-17 and Ecclesiastes 3:1-11

Bryan Buck

Quotes for Reflection

Wendell Berry, “Damage”

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Joan D. Chittister, The Liturgical Year

Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil of our lives until the seed of the Word of God itself begins to grow in us, comes to fruit in us, ripens in us the spiritual journey of a lifetime. So goes the liturgical year through all the days of our lives.

The meaning and message of the liturgical year is the bedrock on which we strike our own life's direction. Rooted in the Resurrection promise of the liturgical year, whatever the we ...