Tag: Ash Wednesday
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The Journey of Renewal: Illuminated Reflections on the Path to the Cross
EDITOR — Join Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary in prayer and reflection this Lenten season by following along with our Lenten Reflection Series.
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Dust to Dust Indeed
JILL CRAINSHAW — I used to think we face our mortalities and shortcomings when our foreheads are ash-smeared. This wisdom endures, but this year? I see both the fragility and wonder of human mortality in the eyes and actions of those whose shoe-dust mingles with mine along life’s myriad highways and byways.
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Ash Wednesday Octave
often, apologies follow Imposition: miserere nobis
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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 mere debris to be swept up and away. Remember. We are interfused, you and I, suspended in each other, vestigial particles of endless galaxies, diminishing and becoming, deposited but for…
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Ashes to Go? Context and Rationale
Many Episcopal parishes, along with other Christian in other communities, have begun to engage in a practice known as Ashes to Go. The idea is to go out into the world and bring something of the uniqueness of the Gospel to people in their busy lives.
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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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Too Many Masses? Pastoral-Liturgical Practice on Ash Wednesday
Given the history of Ash Wednesday’s emergence and various morphings over the centuries as a ritual-symbol inaugurating a season of penitence, I simply do not see why, in the Roman Catholic Church, at least, the most apt liturgy would not be based on the sample penitential services (basically, liturgies of the word) found at the…
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And so the Lenten fast begins…
The monk wakes up on Wednesday and has a full breakfast…
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Chant from the Abbey: Ash Wednesday, I Lent
The Gregorian chant introit of Ash Wednesday, and the introit and communio of I Lent, from the abbey-university Mass.