I’ve mistaken my relatively consistent faithfulness to Lenten disciplines as truly “Lenting” during that forty-day stretch of life.
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Tag: Lent
Fasting, Then Feasting
The Word became flesh, and came to dwell among us.
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Sacred Scatteredness
We may be scattered, but we are not alone. Listen! A sower went out to sow. Matthew 13:3b As this broken bread was scattered
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Dust
I am dust; to dust I shall always return. But don’t assume as you disturb my rest with your omnipotent kitchen broom that I am
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Lenses for Lent
I still search for these sorts of “lenses” to help me view and understand Lent anew, as I participate in its trinity of disciplines, along with whatever other spiritual or physical discipline I’ve chosen.
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Liturgy 0, Popular Piety 1
Whether the Way of the Cross should be held on March 25 or not.
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The Annunciation on the Lenten Journey
In this moment of the Annunciation, Mary is able to say something about who she IS, in order to step forward into who she will BECOME.
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Samaritan Sacramentality: 3rd Lenten Sunday, 1st Scrutiny
How to preach in the contemporary Roman Catholic context the complex story of a multiply divorced and remarried woman? How proclaim a word enabling two young men to be a sign of conversion for us all?
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The First Temptation of Ministry?
I got to wondering to what extent “workism” has infected my own life, work, and ministry.
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The Lenten Bucket List
Ultimately, I believe there is one item on the discipleship bucket list: to be a more faithful disciple. Everything else is frosting, or gravy (neither of which I’ve given up for Lent), or what have you.
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