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52 Reflections on Faith - Ash Wednesday: depending on God
52 Reflections on Faith - Ash Wednesday: depending on God
by BRF - Stephen W. Need
4 Ash Wednesday: Depending on God Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, the period of 40 days before Easter. Lent is a season of fasting and repentance in preparation for the joyous celebration of the resurrection of Jesus on Easter Day. The 40-day period comes from Jesus’ 40 d…
Poem: This towering edifice of shining glass
Poem: This towering edifice of shining glass
by Andrew Pratt
This towering edifice of shining glass which speaks of power, of status and of class. will one day fall, a glittering shower of shards, will flutter like the children's house of cards. These temples of our vanity and pride like expectations of the crucified will lie in dust and r…
Hymn: This towering edifice of shining glass
Hymn: This towering edifice of shining glass
by Andrew Pratt
This towering edifice of shining glass which speaks of power, of status and of class. will one day fall, a glittering shower of shards, will flutter like the children's house of cards. These temples of our vanity and pride like expectations of the crucified will lie in dust and r…
Great Christian Thinkers - 24 St. Paulinus of Nola
Great Christian Thinkers - 24 St. Paulinus of Nola
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Paulinus of Nola The Father of the Church to whom we turn our attention now is St. Paulinus of Nola. Paulinus, a contemporary of St. Augustine to whom he was bound by a firm friendship, exercised his ministry at Nola in Campania, where he was a monk and later a priest and a b…
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 35 Resurrection
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 35 Resurrection
by SPCK-Kenneth E. Bailey
Resurrection Adam and Christ—The Nature of the Resurrected Body A great deal of thoughtful scholarship has gone into the interpretation of Paul’s homily “Resurrection: Adam and Christ—The Nature of the Resurrected Body.”1 Our goal is to look carefully at the rhetorical style Paul…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 17 Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 17 Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 17 Mark 7.1– 8, 14, 15, 21–23 Gaze on Jesus’ hands wiping the dust of the journey away. Large, tough hands, rough from years of carpentry; prone to splinters, cut from slips of the saw, nails blackened from a slipped hammer. Hands that poured water for friends, drew in the…
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