I first wrote and published this a few years ago, but it has never been more relevant than it is this year, this Holy Saturday, in the waiting. It's Holy Saturday today, a day when nothing happened. It gets lost amid all the flashier days of Holy Week but it is the part that, especially … Continue reading The Day When Nothing Happened (2020 edition)
Month: April 2020
Holey Thursday
I have become more than a little lax in recent years about attending all of the rituals of the Easter holy days. This is particularly true if they happen to conflict, as Holy Thursday foot washing services often do, with spring break activities that I consider, in my increasingly rag-tag belief system, to also be … Continue reading Holey Thursday
Ordinary Time
It turned out to be at its coming in and not at its leaving when March was actually the lamb; it left us yesterday with the lion, and lions, it turns out, can kill you. Even the warning of the soothsayer to "Beware the ides of March" seems more foreboding when you think about what … Continue reading Ordinary Time
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