From Shade to Shine Giants Reflecting on love

Reflecting on love

the natural world and disintegration

Join Frederica Mathewes-Green on a guided retreat through an ancient Orthodox text

and meaningful bonding moments

Vespers and Compline

From Shade to Shine Giants Reflecting on loveThis collection of poems begins in the growing darkness of November, stretches through Advent and the seasons leading to Easter and to Pentecost, and ends in the budding light of the Scottish Orkney Islands, where the canonical hours measure time over centuries and where God broods over an austere and beautiful landscape. The measurement of time passing and returning, year after year, in the rhythms of the seasons and of the liturgical year, create