Transfiguration Sunday: The Third Way Between Feasting & Fasting

Ethiopian Orthodox Transfiguration icon, from the Monastery de Bose, Italy.    Transfiguration Sunday: The Third Way Between Feasting & Fasting We are in the second week of our Feasting & Fasting series, and today, we land at a fork in the road—a discernment moment with two Gospel choices: Jesus getting all lit up on the …

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Random? Not so random.

photo-https://www.aqha.com/-/united-kingdom-2   Random? (Not So Random) Mark Nepo describes the original meaning of random as “the instant a horse at full speed has all four hooves off the ground.” Random implies—suspended midair, defying gravity for a fraction of a second. Originally, random meant unbridled passion, full tilt, full send. A life given over completely to …

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Ash Heads

NOT St Mary Magdalen kids 😉image generated by ChatGPT, OpenAI. Ash Heads I remember the Ash Wednesday service at St. Mary Magdalen. Every year, an entire grade school class would return from Mass as Ash-Heads—foreheads smudged, a little holier (and messier) than before. We had just been told we were going to die, and for …

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