catapult magazine

Items tagged celebration

• Late-night thoughts on feasting and fasting

  Feasting and fasting as the yin and yang of Lent.

• Having a ball in my hometown

  A local celebration provides an opportunity to reflect on love of place.

• German Sweet Chocolate Cake

  The story and the recipe.

• More of myself

  Reflection on experiences that flow between the community and the self.

• ?God is the interesting thing?

  St. Benedict?s Table strives to cultivate a liturgy for vital worship.

• A hallowed event

  Should Halloween be a time for sectarian arguments about evil or local unity around end of the harvest?

• Decorating for Lent

  Thoughts on celebrating a season that traditionally constitutes deprivation.

• Christian funerals

  A collection of ideas on the structure and purposes of funeral services.

• The Halloween Bunny

  A tale of disillusionment, for better or worse.

• Reclaiming Mardi Gras

  A Louisiana native provides a closer look at Mardi Gras, a traditional time of celebration before Lent.

• Surrendering to receive

  On Lenten fasting as physical and spiritual preparation for the Easter celebration.

• The tree of sacrifice, the tree of communication

  A tour of images, holidays, uses, poems and ideas related to trees.

• Having myself over for dinner

  Thoughts and misconceptions about eating alone.

• Actualizing the virtual

  Facilitating food and gatherings via the tools of technology.

• Portraits: Men of the Church

  Four lyrical snapshots, taken over two weeks of celebration.

• Bubbling over

  Joy tends to overflow to the point of sharing -- and yet sometimes it doesn't.

• A wonderful life

  On family rituals as occasions to pass down heirloom memories of joy and sorrow.

• Suffering the hap-happiest season

  How can our Christmas rituals proclaim good news for sad people?

• Ten things we imagine at Huss School

  Modest proposals for the future life of 22,000 square feet and four acres.

• Wedding photos (l-r): Joy, Pain, Forgiveness

  Snapshots from a second marriage ceremony, including what's outside the frame.

• Fasting to hear

  On Protestant theology and the revival of discipline.

• Extravagant birthdays and extreme poverty

  Raising children with a perspective on global inequity.

• Paper sack

  Remembering the Christmas Eve celebrations of childhood.

• Ten food-ish experiences of late

  A move to a new community is marked by shared meals and beverages.

• In the shadow of sacred space

  Walking the pilgrim’s path between the cathedral and the bar.

• On a roll

  To bake or not to bake: that is the question.

• Holy days

  Experiencing the sacred, from Theophany to Songkran.

• Tradition transitions

  Why Thanksgiving never will be -- and never has been -- the same.

• Celebrating in the darkness

  Suffering with others on the longest night of the year.

• A time for feasting

  A mother’s wise advice still applies.