Tag: Church year

The Grand Miracle by Mary Karr

Jesus wound up with his body nailed to a tree—

a torment he practically begged for,

or at least did nothing to stop. Pilate

watched the crowd go thumbs down …

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Remember you are dust…

by Donald Schell This year I’ve heard great stories from San Francisco, Chicago, Brooklyn and elsewhere of little bands of Episcopalians taking Ash Wednesday ashes

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Lent is for our sake, not Jesus’

In Lent when we talk of growth in virtue as a consequence of resisting temptations, we are not speaking about Jesus but about ourselves. …Jesus’ temptations were a clarification of what it meant to be God’s son: to trust God for food and protection and to be obedient rather than self-reliant.

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Gearing up for Ashes to Go

The Diocese of Chicago will once again offer Ashes to Go, the exceedingly popular, and at least slightly controversial initiative in which congregations take to

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