Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! In the invitation to keep a holy Lent we share on Ash Wednesday, the liturgy invites us into a season of “penitence and fasting”. For many, these churchy words buzz with excitement and resonate with purpose. But for many others, they aren’t familiar or, let’s be …
Lent
The Lenten Invitation
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! “Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord's passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and fasting. This season of Lent provided a time in which …
The End. And After.
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! Many of us picked up an idea along the way that pain is something we must avoid — self-preservation, we might call it. Others learned to confront that pain head on. At least when it comes to certain pains. Pains like the human existential crisis of climate change …