Lent 2017: Week 5
Week 5: Stillness exercise
April 4, 2017
So it’s late on a Friday afternoon in the open-plan office where I work, and I need to compose the phrasing of some sort of stillness exercise by six o’clock...
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Week 5: Gospel reading
April 4, 2017
The Parable of the Wandering Sheep “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face...
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Week 5: Prey
April 4, 2017
The same master, a hearty, hirsute baritone, taught me Latin and Greek at each stop on the three scholastic terraces, prep, secondary, and college; and, because he looked quite Olympian,...
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Week 5: Pray
April 4, 2017
A word to the wise: the Lord will always surprise us. Nothing is predictable, especially prophecy, which predicts nothing other than the fact that the future is always and everywhere...
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