I got to wondering to what extent “workism” has infected my own life, work, and ministry.
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Tag: Lent
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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Ars Praedicandi: Listening in the Wilderness
Some people give up something for Lent—chocolate, or booze, or some other pleasure. Some people instead take on a discipline or a practice, like daily devotions or acts of mission. Whatever we decide to do, or not to do, it seems to me that the most important thing in these forty days is to listen to what God is saying to us.
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A Time of Waiting
Some of our days this Lent will be unavoidably hectic, the rush and scurry leaving us exhausted by late evening. But there will be other days that are less jam-packed, where the treadmill slows down and we have unaccustomed time and space that is not determined by others, where time is our own.
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Will you be my VaLENTine?
We’ve all seen the diocesan responses to the Valentine’s day/ Ash Wednesday dilemma — celebrate on Shrove Tuesday, do penance on Ash Wednesday, they say. Brian Flanagan has a better both/and solution.
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Good Reasons to Be Vegetarian
Why being vegetarian can make sense for a Christian.
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Watching People Watch (Then Not Watch) the Eclipse: A Liturgical-Theological Reflection
While the natural-cosmic event was surely most captivating, I also discovered my inner-anthropologist kicking in to make the following observation about the before-and-after dynamics that I think sheds some light (pardon the pun) on liturgical time-keeping.
Read moreLenten Fasting
Perhaps the point is not *this* shared penitential practice as opposed to the other practices but rather this *shared* penitential practice.
Read moreWhat Are You Singing This Lent?
Lent must also lead us to experience, celebrate, and live out the grace of God’s mercy, to reveal and see in ourselves the goodness that God sees in us, as in all creation.
Read moreWhen should the organ (not) be used?
Every year there is debate about whether or not the organ may be used during Advent and Lent, and especially regarding its use during the Sacred Triduum.
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