Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Evening Prayer, Ash Wednesday 2020 Lent is upon us, a time for prayer, reflection, penitence, fasting, and charity. Let us not forget our mortality and our fragile existence. During this penitential season, give thanks for all the joys and blessings in your life. Pray … Continue reading Ash Wednesday and Lent
Month: February 2020
My Lenten Plan
I’ve been given some thought about how I want to spend my Lent. I want it to be an honest self-reflecting period to look at areas for spiritual self-improvement and growth. I plan on abstaining and fasting during the Lenten season (though the exact things I will be abstaining/giving up is still to be finalized). … Continue reading My Lenten Plan
Shrove Tuesday
Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras, the final day before the beginning of the Lenten season. Where has the time gone? I almost feel I just put away my Christmas decorations at Epiphany and in 41 days, it will be Easter. I hope, like me, you will use tomorrow as a day of self-reflection … Continue reading Shrove Tuesday
Candlemas 2020
The Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple and Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary is often called Candlemas, so I took my candles to the cathedral to have them blessed. The cathedral, being rather low church, hadn’t done candle blessing for some years now, so I priest did a private blessing of … Continue reading Candlemas 2020
High Anglican Haligonian 