Should have planned farther ahead for an Ash Wednesday post! But as so often happens, life crowded out blogging. Today we had orthodontist appointments--plural--not just B12's usual adjustment, but an evaluation for Chicklet, the next messy mouth in line--and a doctor appointment for B6's weird skin thing going on around his eye. Last night the spring session of theater classes started up again, and I'm teaching Drama 1, a basic acting class with a theme of portraying animal characters. It was so fun to be back in the saddle again...or should I say, back in the classroom. After all, I majored in Elementary Education because I enjoy teaching! The subject matter is new to me, but after one night...I can tell this is going to be fun.
So, Facebook to the rescue! A friend of a friend recommended two articles on Ash Wednesday and Lent, and I commend them to you as well.
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(artist Sieger Koder) The Washing of Feet What could be stranger than this? What more awesome? He who is clothed with light as with a garment (Ps. 104:2) is girded with a towel. He who binds up the waters in His clouds (Job 26:8), who sealed the abyss by His fearful Name, is bound with a girdle. He who gathers together the waters of the sea as in a vessel (Ps. 33
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on 3/27/2010
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Holy Week begins tomorrow!We are doing the full complement of services: Palm Sunday, Blessing of Oil & Water (on Thursday afternoon), Maundy Thursday, Stations of the Cross (on Friday afternoon), Good Friday, Easter Vigil, and Easter Sunday.I am coordinating the readings for all, and I've been a few steps behind ever since I realized that we weren't using the same Palm Sunday Passion reading
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on 2/18/2010
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Though I had no time yesterday to post anything about it, yesterday was Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent!We had a beautifully solemn service which was well-attended. We had visitors, which was always exciting--Abbi's parents and eight brothers and sisters all came, and brought two other families from their church. One family knows Amy and her family, and has been reading Amy's blog--
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on 1/6/2010
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It's Epiphany today, the day we remember the Wise Man coming to the Christ Child with their gifts. They "saw the light" as it led them there, and they "saw the Light" when they looked into His face. Epiphany could be defined as the moment one "sees the light."So when we started our church during the Epiphany season, we named it Light of Christ. That was three years ago this month, so we are
By: At A Hen's Pace,
on 11/3/2008
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On Friday, Bantam17 and Blondechick15 had a day off of school, and it was a free day at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. So we invited our new friend, a 20-year-old young man from Germany who is visiting American friends who go to our church, and off we went to "the City" for the first time since we moved. (I took one wrong turn, coming home at the beginning of rush hour, and it added
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on 11/2/2008
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"All Saints II" by Wassily Kandinsky A saint is not a superman, but one who discovers and lives his truth as a liturgical being. ...It is not enough to say prayers; one must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. It is not enough to have moments of praise. All of life, each act, every gesture, even the smile of the human face, must become a hymn of adoration, an offering, a prayer. One should
By: At A Hen's Pace,
on 9/14/2008
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Our bishop is amazing. Here he is, praying for Bantam17... ...and for Bantam13. For each one of our 23 confirmands, he prayed an individual, Spirit-led prayer that made you wonder how he could possibly know them so well, never having met them. Only by the power of the Spirit, of course! We meet in this beautiful old chapel only for feast days or special occasions like today. Even though
By: At A Hen's Pace,
on 3/30/2008
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Here we were two weeks ago on a chilly, snowy, Sunday morning in Wisconsin! Light of Christ's first Palm Sunday processional went very well, though. That's Bantam12 carrying the cross, and our seminarian from Nashotah House, Joel P, is censor there in front. And a friend emailed me these pictures she took at the Easter Vigil (from pretty far back, zooming in). Toward the end (around 10:30
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on 3/17/2008
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Got your green on for St. Patrick's Day? Well, you missed it! St. Paddy's is over! Because the saint's feast day falls during Holy Week this year (a week devoted to observing the events of the last days of Christ), the official celebration was on Saturday. Check out this Wikipedia article, which explains the dating exception. Did you know that here in Chicago, they dye the Chicago River green
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on 2/21/2008
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I'm trying to take it easy today, while regrouping with homeschooling and catching up on laundry.... Another Godspell mom told me that her little daughter said with surprise, during the second weekend of performances, "Man, nobody does laundry around here anymore!" Yeah, it's one of those tradeoffs we theater moms have to make. (But in ten or twenty years, I doubt I'll wish I'd stayed home
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on 2/4/2008
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We discuss and model three disciplines with our kids during Lent: confession, fasting, and engagement. Confession: We discuss: Why do we need a whole 40 days of penitence? We should confess our sins year 'round, shouldn't we? And we should indeed. But we get comfortable in our sins. Or we pretend they're not really sin. Or we're so used to them, we forget about trying to change. After all,
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on 2/3/2008
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I have a guest blogger today, Amy from Kenosha, who's visited our church plant a few times. She shared with me that her family has developed some traditions for celebrating Shrove Tuesday--also known as Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Pancake Day, Paczki Day, and Fasnacht Day, because it's a day to get rid of the all the rich foods, like eggs and sugar, which you wouldn't be eating during the fast of
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on 1/15/2008
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How do you observe Lent in your personal and family life? What traditions do you find most meaningful? What new spiritual disciplines might you undertake or which ones would you commend to others? How do you bring young ones on the path with Jesus through the desert-season of Lent? Lent will be the subject of the next Anglican Family Carnival (hosted at A Ten O'Clock Scholar). Join us there on
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on 1/6/2008
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At church yesterday, it was a special encouragement yesterday to meet Amy--the first Amy who commented on the last post. She had introduced herself via email earlier last week. She's a Kenosha resident who found our church by googling--yay for the internet! It sounds like we'll get to meet her family next time; her husband stayed home with sick children. Both Amys requested that I post the
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on 1/5/2008
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The collect of the day: O God, by the leading of a star you manifested your only Son to the peoples of the earth: Lead us, who know you now by faith, to your presence, where we may see your glory face to face; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. *** Our church, Light of Christ, is so-named, in part, because it was
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on 12/26/2007
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It's the Christmas season for the next 12 days, until Epiphany begins on January 6. Laura at 10 Million Miles is celebrating with daily posts based on the song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas," which can be used as a children's catechism. She's posting a simple explanation of each symbol and sharing ideas for teaching it to little ones. What a great way to celebrate the Christmas season! ***
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on 12/24/2007
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Now burn, new born to the world, Doubled-naturèd name, The heaven-flung, heart-fleshed, maiden-furled Miracle-in-Mary-of-flame, Mid-numberèd he in three of the thunder-throne! Not a dooms-day dazzle in his coming nor dark as he came; Kind, but royally reclaiming his own; A released shówer, let flásh to the shíre, not a líghtning of fíre hard-húrled. ~Gerard Manley Hopkins from "The Wreck of
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on 12/23/2007
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With the end of Advent looming, I thought I might post some of my learnings while on my blogging break--while the season is still right! --One big thing I learned is that I love blogging. I missed it. What a pleasant diversion it is to put my thoughts down on paper (virtually), on a regular basis. --Without the outlet and the distraction of writing, I found I was “worried and anxious about
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on 12/18/2007
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Thanks to my friend Jen in Seattle for pointing out this article! If you've been a reader here for awhile, you know I've been doing an on-again, off-again series on why we are planting an Anglican church: what drew us, from evangelical backgrounds, to this form of worship, and why we think it will grow. Well, this article helps document some of the claims I've been making! It's rather long,
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on 12/15/2007
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Advent Prayer by Henri Nouwen Lord Jesus, Master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We who have so much to do seek quiet spaces to hear your voice each day. We who are anxious over many things look forward to your coming among us. We who are blessed in so many ways long for the complete joy of your kingdom. We whose hearts are
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on 12/14/2007
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My friend Ann Voskamp at Holy Experience of Listening has written a beautiful post on life as liturgy: While perhaps not commonly coined in Protestant, evangelical faith communities, when I speak of liturgy, I guess I am speaking of the whole of my life as liturgy. An everyday liturgy. With its roots in λειτουργία (leitourgia), liturgy means "public work" or "public servant." Thus all that we
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on 12/2/2007
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From the Old Testament: O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord! (Isaiah 2:1-5) From the New Testament: Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let
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on 11/27/2007
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Welcome to the Carnival of Anglican Advent Traditions! It is our hope that Anglicans and non-Anglicans alike will be encouraged and inspired to celebrate Advent this year--a whole season of its own. Advent begins--not always on Dec. 1, as most children's Advent calendars do--but four Sundays before Christmas, which would be this Sunday, December 2. Advent officially begins a new liturgical
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on 11/26/2007
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Last year, I was asked about Anglican Advent traditions. I did a little research and found that the time-honored Advent traditions--the Advent calendars, wreaths, candles, and hymns, the Jesse tree, the creche or manger scene--all are shared by Catholics, Lutherans and other liturgical traditions. That's because the Church of England, at its formation, hung on to the good stuff from the
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“For yet <strong>seven days</strong>, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth” There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. And it came to pass after <strong>seven days</strong>, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.”<br />“But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”<br />“But, beloved, <
oh and i forgot to add that i am reading the same reading--Is. 55!! i have been trying to memorize it, but i may keep my text in front of me since i have so many other details in my brain that night. i am reading it with a woman who was a professional dancer interpreting it through dance... :)
Have a great Holy Week!
@ Jim: Huh? Get out of which congregation?<br /><br />@ OP and Anonymous:<br />Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, falls from a love of the thing he tells to a love of the telling.<br />C.S. Lewis
Will pray for blessings on you and your church as you follow Christ's footsteps during Holy Week!
P.S. Love the postcard and so glad your light will be shining even brighter in Kenosha! May God do a good work through your witness!!
Thanks for the notes, everyone.<br /><br />I'm not sure what "Jim's" point was, but sometimes these rants strike me as funny, so I left it up for others to enjoy!<br /><br />I'm curious who Anonymous is--who is doing the same reading and also has many details in their head at Easter Vigil?