Western Christians celebrated Easter Day April 12. Eastern Christians celebrate Easter Day this Sunday April 19. You can find out more about the dating of Easter here. And a bit more about Eastern Easter here and here. From Sunday, both Western and Eastern Christians are in the Easter Season.
Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading John 16:1-15 16‘I have said these things to you to keep you from stumbling. 2They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they
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In discussions about such things as money, sex, and authority I regularly underscore that these have powerful human energy that can be used for great good or great evil. Fr. Ron Rolheiser’s recent column on spirituality and sexuality expresses this thought in relation to sex with insightful balance. For those of us who see ourselves
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading John 15:12-27 12 ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14You are my friends if you do
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred reading John 15:1-11 Jesus the True Vine 15‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. 2He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes* to make it bear more
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Read – reflect – respond (in prayer, silence, possibly a comment) Lectio Divina – sacred readingJohn 14:15-31 The Promise of the Holy Spirit 15 ‘If you love me, you will keep* my commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate,* to be with you for ever. 17This is the
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I have been requested to produce badges through the liturgical seasons. I have again been requested for an Easter season badge. You will find it, and the HTML to add to your website or blog on the home page. If you are a member of facebook you can join those encouraging the concept of a
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Easter Day moves around all over the calendar. And with it everything from Ash Wednesday to the Day of Pentecost. The dating of Easter arises from the complicated joining of two different calendar systems. These calendars might be illustrated by the early story of Cain and Abel. If you are an Abel type – hunting,
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