March 30/Third Saturday of Lent For you are not pleased with sacrifices; should I offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it.My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit; a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn. ~ Ps 51.18-19 To the modern sensibility, sacrifices and burnt offerings seem impossibly ancient and decidedly obsolete. Modern…
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Keeping Advent 8: Dress Codes
December 9/Second Sunday of Advent Jerusalem, take off your robe of mourning and misery; Put on the splendor of glory from God. ~ Baruch 5.1 There is scarcely a parent alive who has not at some point uttered the words, “You’re not wearing that, are you?”. When my children were younger, this often occurred in the context of church-going, the battle…
Songs for Lent: Podcast Information
SONGS FOR LENT 2018: Podcast Information Dear Friends, Starting tomorrow, America Media will be running podcasts of the daily reflections. Here is the information for those who are interested. — — — — — — — — — — — — — To subscribe to “The Word” from an Apple device visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-word/id1320295636?mt=2 To subscribe from “The Word” from an Android…
Keeping Advent 8: Memento Mori
December 10/Second Sunday of Advent Since everything is to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness? ~ 2 Peter 3.11 In Muriel Spark’s 1959 novel Memento Mori, the plot revolves around an anonymous telephone caller who informs each of the elderly characters, “Remember, you must die.” The…