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Lenten Journey
For many of us who grew up in mainline Christian churches, perhaps the most familiar association with the Lenten season is the aspect of “giving up” something for the symbolic forty days leading from...
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Dust in the Wind
Today, Ash Wednesday, marks another return to the liturgical season of Lent, a period oftentimes associated with fasting, self-denial, and penance in many churches. For many post-restoration...
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Remember that You are Dust
You are dust, and to dust you shall return. Genesis 3:19c Today in the Western liturgical calendar we now embark into Lent, explained in the previous post as a period of forty-six days of fasting,...
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Repentance and Paradox: Using Opposites to Attract
The early Christians observed with a great degree of devotion the days of Christ’s passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and...
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Come and See
“Attract them by the way you live.” — Saint Augustine Many of us are familiar with the old adage, “If you build it, they will come” made famous in the film, Field of Dreams where in the opening...
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Entering into Lent: Part One
“The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” – Psalm 51: 17 For many of us, Ash Wednesday marks the entrance into a season of fasting,...
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