Monday, February 18, 2013

Election and baptism

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There is so much richness in the liturgy of Lent. Even for us at St. Anne, where for only the second time in my nineteen year tenure we don...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

You will be like gods (First Sunday of Lent, Year C)

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It’s always a temptation for people like me to overintellectualize Lent. It’s easier, for instance, to talk about fasting than to fast, or t...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

I told Jesus it would be all right if he changed my name...

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Simon, Levi, and Saul (at least) all got new names when they embarked down the Jerusalem road, literally or figuratively, with Jesus. So, ...
Friday, February 15, 2013

The shadow on the mountain

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I have notes to myself from years past that the following words were not heard in the homily on Ash Wednesday: baptism, cross, Christ, Easte...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Valentine's Day! Songstories 2 - Psalm 34 "Every Morning in Your Eyes"

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So it's Valentine's Day on Ash Thursday this year. Um, awkward for lovers of chocolates and other confections of seduction. There s...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

My name is mud...That's not so bad

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Remember that you are dust, and into dust you shall return.   I can remember resisting these words from today's liturgy, opting for...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Why liturgical song matters: a fiction

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One of the lesser southern kings is about to ascend the throne in Jerusalem. His father was no great shakes. Higher taxes. Conscription int...
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