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Good Friday
“Now is the time to loosen, cast away The useless weight of everything but love.” -Malcolm Guite
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Holy (Maundy) Thursday: John 13:1-35
“Grace is revealed in suffering, power is displayed through weakness, glory is disguised in humiliation.”
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Palm Sunday: The Triumphal Entry
As a child, I quietly harboured an uneasy dislike for Palm Sunday…
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Lazarus Saturday
It is poetically poignant that Lazarus Saturday falls on the eve of Palm Sunday…
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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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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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Clean Monday | First Day of Lent (Eastern Rite)
For the Eastern Church, Lent begins with Clean Monday…
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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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The Eminently Convertible Abba Antony
Saint Antony of the Desert is widely considered to be the father of desert monasticism.