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Beginning Lent With Joy
Let us enter the Fast with joy, O faithful
Let us not be sad.
Let us cleanse our faces with waters of dispassion,
blessing and exalting Christ forever.
Let us begin the Fast with joy.
Let us give ourselves to spiritual efforts.
Let us cleanse our souls.
Let us cleanse our flesh.
Let us fast from passions as we fast from foods,
taking pleasure [...]
Ash Wednesday And Lent Begins
Today is Ash Wednesday, the day that marks the beginning of Lent in the Western calendar. Living in a country where Muslims form a majority, it is interesting to note the parallels between the season of Lent and the Muslim month of Ramadan. As both an ethnic and religious minority, the predominant culture tends to [...]
Taking A Pilgrimage This Lent
Lent is a 40 day season of fasting and prayer in the Christian calendar and is observed by many mainline denominations in the Western Church as well as the various traditions of the Eastern and Oriental Church. The general purpose of observing Lent is to prepare a Christian – through prayer, penitence, fasting and almsgiving [...]
Happy Martin Luther Day
Today is February 18 – also celebrated as the Feast of Martin Luther (the medieval reformer, not the reformer from the 1960’s). Being good Lutherans, we totally entrust the Anglicans to remind us of obscure feasts of this nature. Hence the reading for today can only come from ….
.. the Anglican weekday lectionary!
The Collect
O God, [...]
