A Mid-Lent Whiteout
It has been a bad Lent, so far. I resolved to abstain on the proper days even if I couldn’t fast, but my health has been too iffy even for that. I resolved to have prayer as a family in the evenings,...
View ArticleFailing and Winning at Lent
This hasn’t been much of a Lent. It never is, but this one was particularly miserable. It started right off the bat after Forgiveness Vespers and did not improve. We ended up without our regular ride...
View ArticleMary Was A Saint
From the Holy Gospel for Monday of Holy Week: Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha...
View ArticleNow Is The Son of Man Glorified
From the reading for Holy Tuesday: So he dipped the morsel and took it and handed it to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot. After Judas took the morsel, Satan entered him. So Jesus said to him, “What you...
View ArticleThere is Nothing Good about this Friday
There is nothing good about this Friday. There is nothing good about a day when you cannot find the Lord. There is nothing good about a church with nothing the tabernacle, nothing on the altar, every...
View ArticleA Suggestion For Your Lent This Year
Have you made your plans for Lent yet? What are you going to do? I always like to think in terms of “what are you going to do?” instead of “what are you going to give up?” because Lent is about...
View ArticleLent Begins in Winter
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy;...
View ArticleIt Causes Me To Tremble
I woke up early, which isn’t like me. Insomnia is another symptom I struggle with. I tend to stay up til three or five, worrying, most nights. It’s hard for me to get up before ten. But this...
View ArticleThe Things I Want to Believe
I went for another hike. At the beginning of Lent, I’d set as a penance for myself to go swimming whenever I could. The repetitive motion of swimming laps clears my mind and helps me to pray and...
View ArticleA Fast Day and a Dying Hart
I thought last night about my dream of the suffering hart, the one I told you about this week— the very silly nightmare my brain conjured up out of random religious images, that I realized was a...
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