Category: lent
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7LW: Fire and Water
Today you will be with me in Paradise. TODAY.How hard it is to imagine this. Today in paradise. Sometime in the distant future or, perhaps, sometime in the distant past, certainly. But today? Hardly. Of course, the Wise Thief is about to die, so that makes sense, right? Your going to die and you’ll be…
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Fasting, Abstinence, and Liberation
WHAT DID YOU GIVE UP FOR LENT? Don’t tell me – you’re not supposed to tell folks. But what was it? Do you think of it as a struggle or a punishment to do so? Are you making a sacrifice for God? Or are you doing something to make up for your sins? What is…
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Ladder Of Divine Ascent
Reading Schedule for 2022 ATRADITIONAL LENTEN practice in the eastern churches is to read St John’s Ladder of Divine Ascent bit by bit through the Fasting Season. (There’s a PDF here.) Although our Western Lent is a couple of days shorter, it can be done. Here’s a reading schedule if you’d like to read along.…
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7LW: Father
This is the final post in a series on the Seven Last Words of Our Lord from the cross. There is a menu and a posting schedule at the bottom of this post. Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit. WITH GOD AS OUR Father brothers all are we.” That’s a line from the…
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7LW: Telos
This is the sixth in a series of posts on the Seven Last Words of Our Lord from the cross. There is a menu and a posting schedule at the bottom of this post. It is finished. Perelandra Is CS Lewis’ brilliant and engaging meditation on the Fall. It takes place on Venus in the…
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7LW: Thirst
This is the fifth in a series of posts on the Seven Last Words of Our Lord from the cross. I used this same text last year: but I was limited to a five-minute talk. This is the director’s cut, slightly up-dated because it’s a year later. There is a menu and a posting schedule…
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7LW: Eloi
This is the fourth in a series of posts on the Seven Last Words of Our Lord from the cross. There is a menu and a posting schedule at the bottom of this post. I’m late on this one. I had a termpaper for Church History. Sorry! My God, My God why hast Thou forsaken…
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7LW: Behold
This is the third in a series of posts on the Seven Last Words of Our Lord from the cross. There is a menu and a posting schedule at the bottom of this post. Behold Your Mother. IWONDER ALWAYS Why Jesus took this moment to address his Mother as “woman”. In the gasping asphyxiation of…
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7LW: Today
This is the second in a series of posts on the Seven Last Words of Our Lord from the cross. There is a menu and a posting schedule at the bottom of this post. Today you will be with me in Paradise. PUT YOURSELF ON THE CROSS next to Jesus there. We want to imagine…
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7LW: Forgive
This is the first in a series of posts on the Seven Last Words of Our Lord from the cross. This series will continue through Lent. There is a menu and a posting schedule at the bottom of this post. Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. Forgiveness IS NOT ONLY Something…
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7LW: Introduction
FOR LENT THIS YEAR, as I have done for Advent for most of the last 20 years, I will post a series of meditations on a regular schedule. The theme for this series is the Seven Last Words of Our Lord, spoken from the Cross on Good Friday. There is a menu at the bottom,…
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Lent’s Here. Let’s talk food.
+JMJ+ BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet is one of my most favourite things, right after whiskers on kittens and Atmospheric River Events on roses. They travel the UK looking for regional specialties and sharing cooking advice. Most of the members of the panel are from some part of the UK (I think), but they…
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Who’s Coming to Dinner?
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday (B2) Station at San Augustino Isaiah 58:9B-14 Luke 5:27-32 Et fecit ei convivium magnum Levi in domo sua : et erat turba multa publicanorum, et aliorum qui cum illis erant discumbentes.And Levi made him a great feast in his own house; and there was a…
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Why We Fast
✙ JMJ The Readings for the Friday after Ash Wednesday (B2) Station at Santi Giovanni e Paulo Isaiah 58:1-9a Matthew 9:14-15 Ecce ad lites et contentiones jejunatis, et percutitis pugno impie. Behold you fast for debates and strife. and strike with the fist wickedly.I have to be fast. It’s far too late for me to be…
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This week was next week last week.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Ash Wednesday (B2) Station at Santa Sabina Joel 2:12-18 II Corinthians 5:20—6:2 Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Ecce nunc tempus acceptabile, ecce nunc dies salutis.Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.What is your life worth today?What if I told you it is worth an infinity of…
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