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Rachel Held Evans, an Easter reflection over an unusual Lenten discipline

If Lent were a competitive sport, Rachel Held Evans would win this year. She gets points for creativity, vulnerability, simplicity, and a distinctly Paschal practice. Luckily, Lent, like origami, isn’t a competitive sport.

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Veiling for Passion Time

“The veiling of crosses and images is a sort of ‘fasting’ from sacred depictions which represent the paschal glory of our salvation.”
- USCCB

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Best of Lent 2012

Editor’s picks of stuff online that was memorable—even outstanding—this Lent.

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Hymn of the Day for Lent 4B

Here is my hymn text for the Fourth Sunday of Lent in the B Cycle of the Roman Catholic three-year Sunday lectionary cycle. I look forward to readers’ suggestions for changes in word choice, rhyme scheme, progress of thought, and hymn-tune pairing.

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Hymn of the Day for Lent 3B

Here is a proposed hymn text for the Third Sunday of Lent, Year B in the Roman Catholic Sunday 3-year lectionary cycle. I invite your comments and critique.

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Hymn of the Day for Lent 2B

Here is the second hymn of the day text that I have created for Cycle B of the Roman Catholic Sunday lectionary system.

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Lenten tattoos catch on at Houston church

Asking his congregation to get permanent tattoos as a part of their Lenten observances may be one of the craziest things Ecclesia pastor Chris Seay has done at his artsy, pop-culture-savvy Montrose church.

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Is there water in your font this Lent?

I’ve been guilty of it myself when I was younger. But we really have to stop this weirdness around removing water from the baptismal font during Lent. I know we get Jesus in the desert for the First Sunday of  Lent, but he doesn’t have to stay there! Send to Kindle:

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Drive through ashes?

“We have two entrances and one exit,” Rev. Patricia Cook said. “So we should be able to do this fairly quickly.”

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Why God Matters: How to Recognize Him in Daily Life

Here’s a book for Lent. And the authors are inviting people to share their Lenten stories at their website.

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