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Category Archives: Lent
Lenten Readings: Day 11
Roman Holiday Today we begin reading Paul’s Letter to the Romans, and over the next four weeks we will work our way from the very beginning to the end of chapter eleven. We then pick it up later in Eastertide … Continue reading
Lenten Readings: Day 10
The Great High Priest Today’s second reading in the Daily Office Lectionary is our last from Hebrews this Lent until Holy Saturday, the final day of the season. Starting next week we begin reading our way through most of Paul’s … Continue reading
Lenten Readings: Day 9
What If God Was One Of Us? I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with this song from 1995. Written by Eric Bazilian and sung by Joan Osborne, it asks an important question without really engaging with the fact that Christianity … Continue reading
Lenten Readings: Day 8
Rest/Restless The passage from Hebrews today continues to riff off of the passage in Psalm 95 quoted in the past two days: “As in my anger I swore,“They will not enter my rest.””. The image is of a very anthropomorphic … Continue reading
Lenten Readings: Day 7
Rejection All of us have experienced rejection. Some of us have experienced it in jobs, relationships, school, and in other circumstances. Some of us have experienced it in church, when we have been told that people like us have no … Continue reading
Lenten Readings: Day 5
Atonement In this week after the First Sunday in Lent we read some passages from the Letter to the Hebrews. Hebrews is an anonymous letter, although it was sometimes attributed to Paul. However, early manuscripts do not have such an … Continue reading
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Lenten Readings: Day 4
Snapshot Titus 3.1 is a favourite one of rulers, as they could direct their clergy to preach on it. Rulers, such as James VI & I liked it, because it gave him the final word. Biblical scholars see this as … Continue reading
Lenten Readings: Day 3
Submission to Power I once had a conversation with Trudy Lebens when she and I were both clergy in the Diocese of Niagara. She had been around for a few years and I had been ordained just two or three, … Continue reading
Lenten Readings: Day 2
Discord In the “epistle” text for the Daily Office Lectionary (see below) today I am brought head to head with discord among God’s people. First, there is substantial modern disagreement about whether this is in fact by Paul. Most New … Continue reading
Lenten Readings: Ash Wednesday
Discipline For Lent I am going to reflect on and daily blog about the second reading from the Daily Office (i.e. the list of scriptural readings from the Book of Alternative Services for the Anglican Church of Canada for Morning … Continue reading
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