Lent, Ash Wednesday, and All Saints #3
How does the ancient liturgical practice of following the church calendar help us consciously step into the gospel, conforming us to Jesus and the shape and purpose of his life? I raised this question in my last blog, giving a…
Lent, Ash Wednesday, and All Saints #2
To participate well in an Ash Wednesday service one has to understand the season of Lent. To understand Lent one has to see it within the context of the entire Christian year. So the church calendar is where we must…
Lent, Ash Wednesday, and All Saints
Next week (Wed. March 9) All Saints will host its first Ash Wednesday service (actually we will offer two services – one at noon at Red River Church and one at 5:30 PM at St. Gabriel’s.) Why are we doing…
Marking The Days That Have Marked Us
“We choose to mark (certain) dates because in some way they have marked us.” – Bobby Gross Everyone has certain dates that are charged with meaning. Consider children and birthdays or wives and wedding anniversaries. Then there’s baseball fans and…
Advent Sympathy
You may have noticed that at All Saints we’re still celebrating Advent, not Christmas … at least not yet. We sing “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” every Sunday, but not “Joy to the World, the Lord is Come." I’m sorry…