Tag: Seasons

You crown the year with your goodness, * and your paths overflow with plenty. May the fields of the wilderness be rich for grazing, *

This coming Sunday (6 Easter) was known, in a softer and more agricultural time, as Rogation Sunday. Along with the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Ascension Day (this year on May 17), these were days to “beat the bounds” of the parish, to make a grand procession along the boundaries of a church’s parish territory, through the farms and fields, to ask God’s blessing on the upcoming harvest.

I tried to skip Lent this year. It wasn’t entirely intentional. There wasn’t any conscious thought to it. I went to the Ash Wednesday service, got my ashes, and even led the Litany of Penitence from the center aisle of the National Cathedral. Yet my head was never really in it and I let other aspects of my life take over.