Tag: Lent

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Hesed Cross Cloud from theactscollective

Lent 1 (Invocabit)

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We are all beggars living under God’s Grace

Drawing of the Ash Cross on the Forehead of the Faithful, Custom on the Ash Wednesday in Bavaria, Germany. Artist Unknown.

Our homily for this Ash Wednesday is based upon a Psalm that is familiar to us
who have been receiving God’s gifts through the ancient public services (liturgies) of
the Church. It reveals that we are all beggars living under God’s grace. We pray the
Holy Spirit will guide our thoughts today as we contemplate the following translated
verse:
Mercy me, O Elohim, as to Your steadfast love, as to Your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions; cause to thoroughly wash me from my iniquity, and
from my sin cleanse me….For more, click on the title above.

Ash Wednesday_2026

Drawing of the Ash Cross on the Forehead of the Faithful, Custom on the Ash Wednesday in Bavaria, Germany. Artist Unknown.

Ash Wednesday

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‘It is finished!’ God’s word for fulfillment for you

Crucifixion by Sadao Watanabe

The readings for this day help to nail home the message of our recent Wednesday series: “Why Easter?” Then we heard Jesus give His answers as to why His baptized and rightly confessing people still celebrate the greatest of the Five High Feasts of the early Church.
Today, during the Great Triduum, we hear again from prophecy and from Jesus. Today, through the readings, hymns, and Psalm canticles, Jesus reminds us how He fulfilled His ancient Word concerning how God would rescue His people from the wages that their/our sins earn. Those, for all who don’t believe in the Christ of the Scriptures, are the second death and an enduring separation from God. …For more, click on the title above.

The blood of the Lamb

The Washing of the Disciples' Feet by Ghislaine Howard

Thousands upon thousands of lambs—buckets upon buckets of blood—this is the history of the Passover. Long ago, in the land of Egypt, in a land of exile, in a land of slavery, the Israelites suffered under the iron fist of Pharaoh.
This line of pharaohs had forgotten the saving work of Joseph and how he had delivered Egypt from the devastating famine. They had enslaved the Hebrew people to do the pharaohs’ manual labor—to build their cities and erect their monuments. …For more, click on the title above.