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  • Raising of Lazarus

    Lazarus Saturday

    It is poetically poignant that Lazarus Saturday falls on the eve of Palm Sunday…

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  • Troubadour

    Lenten Love & Lenten Lands

    Troubadour: a lyric poet sent by one (usually of the king’s court) with a message of chaste love to another.

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    The Feast of the Annunciation

    This day has been called the highwater point of the history of salvation…

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  • St Patrick Crop

    The Feast of Saint Patrick | The Holy Servant-Boy

    It is wonderfully poetic that Patrick first went to Ireland involuntarily as a slave-shepherd, then later returned voluntarily as a servant-shepherd…

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  • St Ephrem the Syrian

    Clean Monday | First Day of Lent (Eastern Rite)

    For the Eastern Church, Lent begins with Clean Monday…

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  • Once a year, Ash Wednesday confronts two particular deaths that every age (particularly our age) is at pains to deny – sin and mortality.Once a year, Ash Wednesday confronts two particular deaths that every age (particularly our age) is at pains to deny – sin and mortality.

    Ash Wednesday – Mercy in the Cross of Christ

    Once a year, Ash Wednesday and the wider Lenten fast provide the collective opportunity to notice, confess and address our willful opposition to love…

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  • Abba Anthony

    The Eminently Convertible Abba Antony

    Saint Antony of the Desert is widely considered to be the father of desert monasticism.

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  • Nathanael's Epiphany

    Nathanael’s Epiphany | John 1:43-50

    Upon being called by Jesus to “follow me,” Phillip, one of the first disciples to be so called, ran to his friend Nathanael, exclaiming, “We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth” (John 1:45).

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    Epiphany at Cana | John 2:1-11

    Now we come to the story of the wedding feast of Cana.

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    The Feast of Saint Valentine

    According to tradition Bishop Valentinus of Terni was executed on Feb 14, 269 CE.

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