April 17, 2022
Hearsay

Hearsay

"Christ is risen!" - "He is truly risen. Hallelujah!" This is the old greeting at Easter, in Latvia it is still quite common. I love this [...]
April 15, 2022
Good Friday in the family service

Good Friday elementary

This year I celebrated Good Friday again twice: at 11:00 with children and at 15:00 classic. In direct comparison it becomes abundantly clear to me why [...]
April 7, 2020

System Relevant

Now there is no way around the realization: our church is not systemically relevant. Actually, we don't believe that, we think we are irreplaceable. But [...]
April 24, 2019

Double Easter

As I told you yesterday, during the Easter Vigil I had to decide whether to join in the celebration in the Children's Village or in the parish. This is not [...]
April 23, 2019

Double liturgy

This year I celebrated Easter twice - just as I did last year. Since I was transferred here in 2017 and started my current job in [...]
April 21, 2019

Everything new!

The Lord is risen! He was dead, but God's love was stronger than the hatred and violence of men. He appeared to the women who [...]
April 20, 2019

Day 40: Rest in the grave

On Good Friday and Holy Saturday the church is changed, somehow incomplete: the holy water basins are empty, the tabernacle is open and empty. So we don't do genuflection and [...].
April 9, 2019

Day 30: business as usual

Gradually it is getting very close to the holidays. In the liturgy it becomes more and more somber, the texts become more cryptic, but in everyday life everything goes normally. [...]
January 26, 2019

Straw star found

This week Sr. Jordana speaks in "Kirche in WDR". Here the contribution from Friday for re-listening, it is again about Christmas, about Easter - and [...]