by The Rev. J.C. Austin | Mar 29, 2024
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: OBSERVING THE TRIDUUM As I mentioned last week, we are now in the midst of what the medieval church began calling the Triduum (“TRID-you-um”), which is simply Latin for “three days.” The Triduum begins on Thursday evening of Holy...
by The Rev. J.C. Austin | Mar 24, 2024
My son Liam, who’s in his first year of college in Washington, DC, told me recently that he has checked off one of the rites of passage of being a DC resident: he was inconvenienced by the Presidential motorcade. Now, we’ve all seen the motorcade on TV: the giant,...
by The Rev. J.C. Austin | Mar 22, 2024
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: COMMEMORATING JESUS’ ACTIVITIES This Sunday is Palm Sunday, which begins Holy Week, the most important week of the year on the Christian calendar. In the next week, we will have a range of services that commemorate Jesus’...
by The Rev. J.C. Austin | Mar 16, 2024
A MESSAGE FROM THE REV. J.C. AUSTIN: A LONG (AND EXCITING) JOURNEY AHEAD Last week, I attended a gathering in Atlanta of about 30 PC(USA) senior pastors from across the country, facilitated by the Presbyterian Foundation. The point was to gather pastors who fit into...
by The Rev. J.C. Austin | Mar 10, 2024
Let’s just say it: this is a crazy story. Most of us have been invited to at least one wedding at some point in our lives that we didn’t really want to attend: a third cousin who’s just fishing for presents, a co-worker whom you barely know that wants to show off, and...
