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