festivities festive events or activities: the festivities of Christmas. Festive means relating to a holiday or celebration especially Christmas. Something that is festive is special colourful or exciting especially because of a holiday or celebration.
Philip are now – I hope-knowing the presence of God in the special places of our homes. We who have known the presence of God in the special place we know as the Cathedral of St.
#FESTIFY UNHOLY SPACE FREE#
If I can locate the presence of Christ, particularly, in a special place, then I am set free to experience that same presence anywhere else, as well. She said something like this, “When I tend to those particular altar vessels as if they really do contain the body and blood of Christ, then I am able to see the body and blood of Christ everywhere else.” I remember, years ago, when one of my faithful friends explained to me why she loved serving on the altar guild, preparing the vestments and vessels for Sunday services. They are where we have experienced the fullness of humanity – and divinity, too. They are where we have sensed someone above us and beyond us, and somehow loving us and strengthening us, no matter our circumstance. They are where we have loved, and they are where we have lost love. They are where we grew up they are where we came of age. Yes, those places can be anywhere, and they ARE anywhere. Holy places are where holy people have somehow sensed the divine in whatever circumstance they have been in, wherever they have been, and then marked that particular space and time. The holy people are those who have struggled and rejoiced through life, and who have marked those struggles and joys with a sense of space and time. And who are the holy people? They are you. A holy place is where holy people have prayed. What makes a place holy? Well, it may be that a place is holy simply because holy people have prayed there. (I have ended up making five pilgrimages to Israel/Palestine – and it is holy!) Jesus the Christ is everywhere, and one need not journey to Jerusalem to find Christ. In fact, I continued, it might even be more faithful. When people returned from Israel and told me how moving it was to have walked in the footsteps of Jesus, I had replied that I could just as easily walk in his footsteps here in the United States. I remember that it was ten years into my ministry as a priest that I even considered making a trip, or pilgrimage, to the ultimate holy place for Christians, “The Holy Land” (of Israel/Palestine). Then, on another day of the week, you have seen me in a regular video meeting, maybe in regular clothes, and you have said, “I know that familiar place! Where are the candles?”Īre there only some parts of the week when my study is holy? During this season of quarantine prayer, and online religious services from everywhere, the question arises, “What is it that makes a place holy?” And the study is often set up with candles and holy items. I am usually in some sort of religious garb. Most of you have seen me praying different parts of our Sunday service, or preaching the sermon, or recording midday meditations, from that home study. Wait! Hardly any of you have ever been in my home study! But you sure have seen a lot of it lately, in online video worship services.
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