Lent | Lent
Mar.31.2013
One day so long ago that I don’t remember it I realized that I prefer Easter to Christmas. Christmas has all the fuss and presents and parties, but once you’ve been to church, had dinner and opened presents, what is there? Christmas felt like all expectation and too little fulfillment....
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Feb.15.2013
This blog is always a bit of a potpourri—writing, spirituality, travel, chit-chat, whatnot—but more this week than most. One day, I wrote about Lent; the very next about romantic love. Can I help it if Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day fell on the same week this year?
As a result, this Great Stuff...
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Feb.13.2013
ASH WEDNESDAY! LENT BEGINS AROUND THE WORLD! So reads today's headline on the Huffington Post website (well, all right: I added the exclamation points).
As I read those words this morning, I was immediately transported back to my childhood, when Lent really was as important in my life as...
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Feb.12.2013
Today is Ash Wednesday.
My penance for Lent begins.
I am abstaining from Facebook.
Yup, that’s right!
Not just fasting, meaning less logging on to Facebook.
But abstaining for the entire season of Lent!
That’s a whopping total of forty days from today.
It’s not like my life will change...
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Feb.08.2013
Fasnacht (doughnut) Day
By Bernadette A. Moyer
Sometimes it is spelled “faschnacht” it is the English name for a fried donut and observed on Shrove Tuesday, the day before the Lenten season begins. Having grown up in the Northeast of Pennsylvania I was aware of and often celebrated Fasnacht day...
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Apr.29.2012
I am recovering from a drawn out case of laryngitis. During this time, there was one particular day when I could not speak. My throat hurt too much. Because I am currently between jobs, I was able to indulge the laryngitis, and allow it to take its time over its tantrum. ...
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Mar.13.2012
*This post was originally published on my website on Ash Wednesday 2012
Today is the start of Lent, the time when Catholics fast in remembrance of Christ. Lent is observed by many non-Catholics and even many non-Christians as way to reset priorities and remember that it's the simple things...
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Feb.22.2012
(unrevised poem written in 2009)
It was the same date as today,
Ash Wednesday of that year,
An opaque sky heralded
the bleak disciplines of Lent.
Cremated palm leaves made soot
as fine as stoneground cornsilk,
Echoes of long-past hosannas
Fading in the deadened air.
Metanoia...
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Mar.24.2011
As I've passed the half-century mark, I've come to the place in life where I no longer finish an unenjoyable book or movie rental. There is a point I reach at which I know I've spent enough time at an unfulfilling piece of fiction, and can expect more of the same if I continue. So if (after a given...
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Mar.13.2011
(For the DVD and book giveaways for the "coming through natural disaster" blog topic, please see here.)
"WHEN I LET GO OF WHAT I AM, I BECOME WHAT I MIGHT BE." –The Tao Te Ching. Christians everywhere are observing the season of Lent, a forty-day period of self-sacrifice in...
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