Category Archives: Lent
Be near me
“Be near me when I’m dying, O show Thy cross to me.” (from “O Sacred Head, Once Wounded”–you can listen to it here.)
Lenten Grace -- Washed Clean
Reblogged from Barnstorming: What e’er the soul has felt or suffered long, Oh, heart! this one thing should not be forgot: Christ washed the feet of Judas. ~George Marion McClellan from “The Feet of Judas” in The Book of American Negro Poetry 1922 As an aide in a rest home caring for the crippled feet …
How to live Holy Week
An excellent Holy Week suggestion from Fr. Peter John Cameron (editor of Magnificat): One way to approach Holy Week to live it like no other of the year is to unite yourself with one of the holy people who accompany Jesus in his Passion. So perhaps you might identify with one of the disciples sent to …
Those thorns on Thy brow . . .
My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine; For Thee all the follies of sin I resign. My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art Thou; If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now. I love Thee because Thou has first loved me, And purchased my pardon on Calvary’s tree. I love Thee for …
Lenten Grace -- Wilderness Waiting
Reblogged from Barnstorming: This is the wilderness time, when every path is obscure and thorns have grown around the words of hope. This is the time of stone, not bread, when even the sunrise feels uncertain and everything tastes of bitterness. This is the time of ashes and dust, when darkness clothes our dreams and …
“How very much we do not want to be poor”
Well worth pondering from Heather King: My friend Tensie runs a free clinic for farm workers on the central coast of California. She once told me of a young Hispanic woman named Claudia who was dying of cancer; whose heart was broken at the thought of leaving her two-year-old daughter; whose patient endurance, love, and …
“Where are you?”
Last week we were talking about Lent at the dinner table, and one of the Sisters shared about how she was suddenly struck this year about how Lent is really primarily all about relationship, our relationship with God. That’s the point of the season: to restore us and strengthen us in our relationship with Him. …
Lenten Grace -- Great Gaps
Reblogged from Barnstorming: Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who also was and is his God. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer from “Circular Letters in the Church Struggle” No …
The powerless
Laura died this past Saturday. I never really spent much time with her, but many of the women I live with did. Laura had been one of the first residents of one of our Emmanuel Houses and had been lovingly teaching all who volunteered there for the past fourteen years. Laura had lived with cerebral …
We all clap
Your bathrobe tie dropped into the toilet, the computer is taking forEVer, the telephone is ringing again, and you still don’t know what you’re making for dinner tonight. . . . and it’s only the beginning of Lent! Read Christopher deVinck’s story below to remind you of a very, very important principle: One spring afternoon …
