April 11: Full Stop
Whew wasn’t getting here a push! 40 days (absent Sundays) from Ash Wednesday until today (Part One). Feels like 4 years in chronological time but no, 40 days, a Lenten quarantina
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April 10: Bonus Egeria!!
Since we will be leaving Egeria soon, I thought to provide a few interesting excerpts from her writing about Good Friday of the Great Week I could not wedge into
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April 10: Why?
We have come to Good Friday. Dark is never darker than here. As an exhausted and broken Frodo Baggins says to his faithful friend Samwise Gamgee after their quest to
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April 9: Make It So
Sir Patrick Stewart, one of England’s leading Shakespearian actors, recently reprised his role as Jean Luc Picard for CBS’s lucrative Star Trek franchise. Admiral Picard is universally regarded as amongst
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April 8: Triduum Special Reflection
What a pleasure during this Lenten journey to share a small portion of sacred vocabulary with you. And here we come to one of the most significant titles for Christian
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April 8: I Spy
Not Holy Wednesday, in case you were guessing. Spy Wednesday is today in the Great Week. Egeria provides the answer why. Following the same worship schedule like the past two
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April 7: The Least of These
Welcome to Holy Tuesday, the third day of the Great Week. For Egeria this day mirrored yesterday except for the very end. She describes a special hike after the final
Continue readingApril 6: Claim the Day
Our earliest Christian forebears (often called the “primitive church” by scholars who seemingly never perceived the derogatory implication of that term) lived in a terribly brutal world. Recall that while
Continue readingApril 5: Hebdomadarii
Yes, you can say with me slowly…Hep-DOM-eh-dare-ree, a hybrid Greek-Latin term meaning People Who Kept a Week. Today we begin to keep the week of all Christian weeks, the holiest,
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March 21: Holy Week at Home
Holy Week. For many of us who are “liturgical” Christians, i.e. those believers who gather based upon a traditional platform of calendared and ordered pattern of worship, Holy Week is
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