A Lenten Journey An ashen cross tattoos my forehead, the green palms of Jesus earthly triumph reduced to carbon residue remind me that my life is only one step from my cremated remains. A reality check that humbles and frees me to travel less encumbered with self, a pilgrim journeying toward the sacred. To pause…
Lent usually evolves for me as I seek to see not just what I can starve but what I for these 40 days I can nourish. This year I have been praying The Angelus, a Catholic devotional prayer that dates from the 16th century. It is prayed at 6a, noon and 6p.I went prayerfully seeking…
I started to write this at the beginning of Lent but only now getting to finish it and send it off. Pope Francis has declared this the year of Mercy and that is what Lent culminating with Easter is all about. God’s Mercy bestowed on us . Miserere Mei, Deus We drop some food on the…
I wrote this as I sat in the Ash Wednesday Service which marks the beginning of Lent (the 40 days leading up to Easter.) I meditated upon the beautiful tapestry at the from of the Church in different shades and patterns of purple, indicating an undulating landscape with a golden road that leads across it to…
As the Lenten into Easter Journey begins again this week and I take this time to reflect and be renewed in my life. I enter in with this thought, that it is not about journeying to repentance but it is a journey to discover a lover who has been waiting for us , who gave…
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