Lenten Meditations: Friday16 February 2024

Feb 16, 2024 by

am: 95, 31 pm: 35   Deut 7:12-16   Titus 2:1-15   John 1:35-42 Fri Feb 16   Friday After Ash Wednesday – St Juliana of Nicomedia. Virgin and Martyr, 304 LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY:  Juliana was born in the city...

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Lenten Meditations: Thursday 15 February 2024

Feb 15, 2024 by

  Thurs Feb 15   am: 37:1-18 pm: 37:19-42   Deut 7:6-11   Titus 1:1-16   John 1:29-34   THURSDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY: Sigfrid, Bishop, Apostle of Sweden, 1045   LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: –...

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Love Among the Ashes

Feb 14, 2024 by

by Brian A. Graebe, First Things: February 14 this year brings the rare convergence of Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day. Rarer still is that it will happen in 2029 as well, twice in one decade. The two observances will not meet again...

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Ash Wednesday and the consolation of suffering

Feb 14, 2024 by

By Harry Blanchard, TCW: TODAY is Ash Wednesday, which marks the first day of Lent. It is traditionally observed with fasting or abstinence from meat, and many Christians attend services at which their foreheads are marked with ash as a...

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Lenten Meditations: Ash Wednesday

Feb 14, 2024 by

                                 PSALM               OLD TESTAMENT               EPISTLE                   GOSPEL Ash Wed Mar 14 am: 95, 32, 143 pm: 102, 130   Joel 3:1-4:11   Heb 12:1-14   Luke 18:9-14   ASH WEDNESDAY...

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Seduced by the Cross

Feb 14, 2024 by

By Kurt Hofer, European Conservative. Do not hurry by the cross on your way to Easter joy, for we know the risen Lord only through Christ and him crucified. There comes a time in every Christian’s life when he first realizes that he has...

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