Lent 2017: Week 3

Week 3: Stillness exercise

March 19, 2017

If you are still here, you are here but not still. That is as good as it gets, alas.

Lent 2017: Week 3

Week 3: Gospel reading

March 19, 2017

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he...

Lent 2017: Week 3

Week 3: Prey

March 19, 2017

The parables of the hidden treasure and of the pearl of great price in the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew were chosen as the evangelical texts of proclamation...

Lent 2017: Week 3

Week 3: Pray

March 19, 2017

I grew up in a large and lovely house at the intersection of Ailesbury and Shrewsbury Road, a mile-long boulevard of embassies and mansions (and two interesting if unsolved murders);...

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