Author Archives: ashes2easter

Easter. RIse heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise Without delayes, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With him mayst rise: That, as his death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and … Continue reading →

Something strange is happening-there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh … Continue reading →

In my previous post, I described Jerusalem perhaps unwisely as just “another ancient hill,” if only to set up a contrast between the transcendent kindness of Christianity and the open book of grudges that seems to be the contemporary Middle … Continue reading →

Maundy Thursday Jn.13:1-17 “Do you know what I have done for you?” Jesus knew that this was probably His last night with His beloved disciples. That makes this evening all the more significant. Jesus is giving His followers their final … Continue reading →

On Maundy Thursday, as we set out on our intense holy week walk, the drama the gospels describe of Jesus’ last meal with his friends, his betrayal and death, and his astonishing resurrection. We walk along with impulsive, inconsistent Peter … Continue reading →

desert voices taking sides. hunger, sweat, trembling, 40 days nights. satan loses, Jesus frightens me.                                   virginia sapienza lund

The long penitential season of Lent is almost over. This week will end in the Easter Feast, and we will look ahead to the long unfolding spring days of the Easter Season and the bright summer of Pentecost beyond them. … Continue reading →

            Before Lent started five weeks ago, I decided to give up drinking my two daily dark, microbrews and all other drinks until Easter Saturday night.  I can do without the other alcohol, but the two micro beers have a … Continue reading →

In her lovely  book The Sacred Meal, Nora Gallagher describes Kathryn Harrison’s book While they slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family. In it, Harrison describes the family to whom this tragedy happened: abusive, dysfunctional and the only … Continue reading →

On the inside of our wedding bands, Lindsay and I have the following inscribed: Be still and know that I am God. When we ordered the bands, we were still in Boston. I was two years out of college and … Continue reading →