Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.1.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Father John Hazlet love one another ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.johnhazlet.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Keeping the Ink Wet: a Review](https://www.johnhazlet.org/2026/07/13/keeping-the-ink-wet-a-review/) - Oscar Wilde famously opined that the altar server at Mass was what remained of the chorus from classical Greek tragedy. This may or may not be historically sound, but it highlights an important and frequently undervalued parallel between Christian liturgy and the stage: the origins of the theater as we know it are to be - [Checking In on Epiphany](https://www.johnhazlet.org/2026/01/04/checking-in-on-epiphany/) - Some churches in the Catholic tradition are celebrating Epiphany today, including mine. It is a feast I love because of all it brings together around the improvised manger-bed of the infant Jesus: his holy Mother and St. Joseph, of course; a variety of animals generally thought at the time to be unfit for human company; - [An Update amid Wildfires](https://www.johnhazlet.org/2025/01/16/and-update-amid-wildfires/) - Since graduating from law school last summer, I have been intensely focused on preparing for the California Bar Exam, which I plan to take in February. As a result, I have not posted here for quite a while. I am doing so now in response to the wildfires that have been devastating swathes of Southern - [Happy Easter!](https://www.johnhazlet.org/2024/03/31/happy-easter/) - A Happy Easter to all! In the iconographic tradition of Western Christianity, we are accustomed to associate images of the resurrection of Jesus with this most solemn and joyous feast of the liturgical year. This fourteenth-century fresco by Fra Angelico, in San Marco, Florence, is a classic example. Our Lord is depicted rising from his - [Fervorini non predicati: The First Sunday of Advent, Year B](https://www.johnhazlet.org/2023/12/03/fervorini-non-predicati-the-first-sunday-of-advent-year-b/) - Isaiah 16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7. Psalm 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-10. 1 Corinthians 1:3-9. Mark 13:33-37. I doubt any of us sang "Auld Lang Syne" as the clock struck midnight, but, for the Church, this is New Year's Day. With the Season of Advent, a new liturgical year begins in a spirit of quiet anticipation. We look toward - [Fervorini non predicati: Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A](https://www.johnhazlet.org/2023/10/01/fervorini-non-predicati-twenty-sixth-sunday-in-ordinary-time-year-a/) - Ezekiel 18:25-28; Psalm 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Philippians 2:1-11; Matthew 21:28-32 Today's second reading contains one of the great pieces of early Christian verse. Often called the Christ Hymn, it (or most of it) is probably older than the Letter to the Philippians, something whith which the readers and hearers of that letter would have been - [Fervorini non predicati: Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A](https://www.johnhazlet.org/2023/09/24/fervorini-non-predicati-twenty-fifth-sunday-in-ordinary-time-year-a/) - Isaiah 55:6-9; Psalm 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18; Philippians 1:20c-24, 27a; Matthew 20:1-16a If the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard were about the wages and hours of laborers, it would be shocking in its apparent endorsement of injustice. But it isn't. The idea of a parable is to arrest our attention with something surprising or - [Fervorini non predicati: Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A](https://www.johnhazlet.org/2023/09/17/fervorini-non-predicati-twenty-fourth-sunday-in-ordinary-time-year-a/) - A fervorino, in the context of liturgy, is a short homily; the sort of thing one might expect to hear in the course of a weekday Mass. Given the nature of both my "secular" work and my apostolate, I seldom preach. But I thought I might try to offer here a brief reflection on the - [Robert Farrar Capon: Exit 36](https://www.johnhazlet.org/2023/09/11/robert-farrar-capon-exit-36/) - In recent weeks I have found myself thinking about the late Episcopal priest and bon vivant Father Robert Farrar Capon, whose earthly pilgrimage came to an end a decade ago this month. As a callow undergraduate I was introduced to his writings by a Lutheran pastor I knew. Those books - and the remarkable man - [Feast of St Athanasius of Alexandria](https://www.johnhazlet.org/2023/05/02/st-athanasius/) - St Athanasius, whose feast we celebrate today, is well-known as a champion of the divinity of Christ. He is less well-known as an example of how agreement can sometimes be an unexpected source of division. Few Christians remember today (though Fr Andrew Louth brilliantly reminds us in his The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition) that - [Memorial of St Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church](https://www.johnhazlet.org/2022/12/07/memorial-of-st-ambrose/) - St Ambrose of Milan was renown even in his own lifetime as a brilliant theologian, a kind and indefatigable pastor, and an accomplished statesman. But one of the things for which he was regarded as remarkable will seem puzzling, even comical, today: his ability to read silently! Silent reading is now the norm rather than - [Feast of St Andrew the Apostle](https://www.johnhazlet.org/2022/11/30/feast-of-st-andrew-the-apostle/) - St Andrew and becoming fishers of men as disciples of Jesus ## Pages - [About me](https://www.johnhazlet.org/about-me/) - I am a priest in the Diocese of the Pacific of the Old Catholic Union of the West. It seems I am a creature of valleys. A native of Pasadena, I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley. I lived for many years in the Antelope Valley. And I now (with my husband) reside in - [Contact](https://www.johnhazlet.org/contact/) - You may contact me regarding pastoral matters by writing to john@johnhazlet.org or by calling or texting 844 442 9538. If you are experiencing a pastoral emergency, please call and leave a detailed message. For legal matters, please visit here. - [The Old Catholic Union of the West](https://www.johnhazlet.org/the-acc/) - Many are surprised to learn that not all Catholics are Roman. Certainly the Roman Church is the largest of the Catholic churches, with more than a billion faithful globally, but Rome would be the first to acknowledges that there are authentically Catholic churches outside its embrace. Some of these have maintained their independence from Rome - [This Site](https://www.johnhazlet.org/thissite/) - I intend this website to be an online "place" for ministry and community embracing the Benedictine motto of "Peace." Since the Catholic faith is about everything, I aspire to post here not only on matters overtly theological and pastoral, but on a wide variety of my eccentric interests, in the hope that some of these - [Spiritual Direction](https://www.johnhazlet.org/spiritual-direction/) - A spiritual director is not quite what either part of the title suggests. Such a person is not like a board of directors, with authority to guide the course of a directee's spiritual life. 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