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The Paradox of Lent: Less is More
“In the Byzantine Catholic Church, the Great Fast is the name given to the Lenten period, the six weeks before Great and Holy Week (the final week before Easter). The beginning of the Great Fast for the Byzantine Church differs from other churches in a few ways but the meaning and intent...
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When Ash Wednesday Falls on Valentine's Day
This year Ash Wednesday falls on St. Valentine's Day. So do we have romantic dinners, or fast? Should we make sure our loved one isn't giving up chocolate for Lent before giving a box of chocolates? Guidance from the Augsburg Confession....
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Completing a Contemplative Lent
Completing a Contemplative Lent The liturgical season of Lent ends this weekend on Palm Sunday. We are less than a week away from completing a contemplative Lent. Those of us striving for a contemplative Lent are running out of time. We have questions to answer and intentions to decide,...
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Ash Wednesday understood properly is the best kind of Captcha test the web - of life- has to offer. Go ahead! Click the box!
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In Memory of Giordano Bruno, Martyr
Short, slight, red-headed and pugnacious, Giordano Bruno’s explored the radical theological implications of Copernicus’ heliocentric universe. Powerful imagery of fire and ashes played an important role in his writing. His end in fire and ash, on the day after Ash Wednesday 1600, was...
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The Christian Holidays of Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday
Not a lot of facts are known about St. Valentine. He was a Christian priest and bishop in and around Rome, who might have been a physician during the reign of Emperor Claudius II, who dedicated a lot of time to persecuting Christians. According to legend, Valentine would secretly marry...
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