Tag: Lent
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“Did you get your ashes?” Writing and Lecturing on Ash Wednesday
Inscribing or placing symbols directly on bodies (wedding rings, tattoos, baptismal water, chrism or oil of the sick, ashes) comprise profound performances of personal and group identity formation.
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Between Epiphany and Lent: A Soft Point in the Liturgical Year
What if we envisioned the “empty” period of time between Epiphany and Lent as an opportunity for making meaning?
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The Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord in Iconography
The first lecture will be Monday, March 22, 2021, on “The Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord in Iconography,” beginning at 7:00 pm CT. The live stream/recording link is here.
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The Game of Lent
As the Scottish poet Robert Burns observed, to see ourselves as others see us is God’s greatest gift, and the Simpson household has certainly helped me do that.
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Lenting Hard . . . or Hardly Lenting?
I’ve mistaken my relatively consistent faithfulness to Lenten disciplines as truly “Lenting” during that forty-day stretch of life.
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Fasting, Then Feasting
The Word became flesh, and came to dwell among us.
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Sacred Scatteredness
We may be scattered, but we are not alone. Listen! A sower went out to sow. Matthew 13:3b As this broken bread was scattered upon the mountains and being gathered together became one, so may your Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into your kingdom . . . from…
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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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Lenses for Lent
I still search for these sorts of “lenses” to help me view and understand Lent anew, as I participate in its trinity of disciplines, along with whatever other spiritual or physical discipline I’ve chosen.